What’s Apache Pulsar?
Apache Pulsar is an open-source, distributed messaging and streaming platform built for the cloud, a multi-tenant, high-performance solution for server-to-server messaging. Originally developed by Yahoo
Key features
- Native support for multiple clusters in a Pulsar instance, with seamless geo-replication of messages across clusters.
- Very low publish and end-to-end latency.
- Seamless scalability to over a million topics.
- A simple client API with bindings for Java, Go, Python and C++.
- Multiple subscription types (exclusive, shared, and failover) for topics.
- Guaranteed message delivery with persistent message storage provided by Apache BookKeeper. A serverless lightweight computing framework Pulsar Functions offers the capability for stream-native data processing.
- A serverless connector framework Pulsar IO, which is built on Pulsar Functions, makes it easier to move data in and out of Apache Pulsar.
- Tiered Storage offloads data from hot/warm storage to cold/long-term storage (such as S3 and GCS) when the data is aging out.
Business Example
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