librdkafka - Apache Kafka C/C++ client library

https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka

librdkafka is a C library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol, containing both Producer and Consumer support. It was designed with message delivery reliability and high performance in mind, current figures exceed 800000 msgs/second for the producer and 3 million msgs/second for the consumer.

librdkafka is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license.

For an introduction to the performance and usage of librdkafka, see INTRODUCTION.md

NOTE: The master branch is actively developed, use latest release for production use.

Apache Kafka 0.8 support:

Branch: master
Producer: supported
Consumer: supported
Compression: snappy and gzip
Debian package: librdkafka1 and librdkafka-dev in Debian testing and unstable
ZooKeeper: not supported
C API: Stable, ABI safe, not backwards compatible with 0.7
C++ API: Testing
Tests: Regression tests in tests/ directory.
Statistics: JSON formatted, see rd_kafka_conf_set_stats_cb in rdkafka.h.
Status: Stable

Apache Kafka 0.7 support:

Branch: 0.7
Producer: supported
Consumer: supported
Compression: not supported
ZooKeeper: not supported
C API: backwards compatible with 0.6
Status: Stable

Apache Kafka 0.6 support:

Branch: 0.6
Producer: supported
Consumer: supported
Compression: not supported
ZooKeeper: not supported
Status: Testing

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Usage

Requirements

The GNU toolchain
GNU make
pthreads
zlib

Instructions

Building

  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install

Usage in code

See examples/rdkafka_example.c for an example producer and consumer.

Link your program with -lrdkafka -lz -lpthread -lrt.

Documentation

The C API is documented in src/rdkafka.h

The C++ API is documented in src-cpp/rdkafkacpp.h

Configuration properties are documented in CONFIGURATION.md

For a librdkafka introduction, see INTRODUCTION.md

Examples

See the examples/sub-directory.

Tests

See the tests/sub-directory.

Support

File bug reports, feature requests and questions using GitHub Issues

Questions and discussions are also welcome on irc.freenode.org, #apache-kafka, nickname Snaps.

Commercial support

Commercial support is available from Edenhill services

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