RabbitMQ or Kafka #inShort

RabbitMQ and Kafka are two of the most popular open-source messaging systems. The difference between these two is that nodes in RabbitMQ speak only to each other, whereas nodes in Kafka speak to other services (like S3) as well. This can be advantageous when embedding into enterprise systems while maintaining compatibility with existing systems.

Both are two distributed communication systems that offer similar features. However, they have a few differences which make them less suitable for certain jobs. If a developer needs to send messages to multiple clients and microservices, it’s better to use RabbitMQ than Kafka.When asked what are the features of RabbitMQ and Kafka, we've listed out the common features below: RabbitMQ vs kafka(1) Transactional messaging(2) Publish/Subscribe(3) Messaging Queueing(4) Connection pooling

Kafka is a messaging system, not a storage backend. In other words, it’s not a cloud storage service like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage. Kafka is designed to be used as an application messaging system, not an interchange protocol like RabbitMQ has been since it was introduced. It’s different from RabbitMQ because its design focus is on lightweight persistent messaging across servers in clustered environments; RabbitMQ offers more abstractions for enabling interoperability between applications.

So, small messages then Rabbit, extensive data is Kafka.