Console’s review
· Reviewed by David Mytton
What we like
Deployed as a single (C++) binary - no JVM. No Zookeeper. Use any Kafka library. Comes with a web console out of the box and can be managed via a CLI (which includes tuning features). Built-in schema registry. Prometheus endpoints. Tiered storage to offload to object storage. Run it yourself, in the cloud, or bring your own cloud.
Tradeoffs
Schema registry functionality is limited to registration - does not do any deep schema validation and docs are limited about how to use it with Kafka SDKs.