The Value of Apache Kafka in Big Data Ecosystem | Confluent

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This post explains the value of Apache Kafka in the Big Data ecosystem, highlighting its role as a scalable pub/sub system for ingesting high volumes of data in real-time. It discusses the limitations of traditional monolithic databases for handling large, diverse datasets and the emergence of specialized distributed systems. Kafka is presented as a central stream data platform that feeds these specialized systems (e.g., Hadoop, key/value stores, search engines, stream processors) by persisting data to disk and supporting multiple subscriptions for both real-time and batch consumers. The post also touches upon the importance of data curation early in the ingestion process.