https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Delete-message-after-consuming-it-from-kafka-topic-is-this/m-p/172675#M37547 <P>is it possible for after consuming data from kafka topic data is deleted using java api please help me for this..</P> Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:16:53 GMT vishal2159 2016-08-11T16:16:53Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Delete-message-after-consuming-it-from-kafka-topic-is-this/m-p/172675#M37547 <P>is it possible for after consuming data from kafka topic data is deleted using java api please help me for this..</P> Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:16:53 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Delete-message-after-consuming-it-from-kafka-topic-is-this/m-p/172675#M37547 vishal2159 2016-08-11T16:16:53Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Delete-message-after-consuming-it-from-kafka-topic-is-this/m-p/172676#M37548 <P><A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/users/10526/vishal2159.html"></A><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/10526/vishal2159.html" nodeid="10526">@vishal patil</A></P><P>I dont think this is possible as Kafka is not a consume-delete semantic framework and multiple consumers might be reading from the same queue.</P><P>This <A href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28586008/delete-message-after-consuming-it-in-kafka" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28586008/delete-message-after-consuming-it-in-kafka</A> has details for your question.</P><P>Also refer <A href="https://www.quora.com/I-want-to-delete-the-message-from-a-Kafka-broker-after-consuming-it-How-can-I-do-that#MoreAnswers" target="_blank">https://www.quora.com/I-want-to-delete-the-message-from-a-Kafka-broker-after-consuming-it-How-can-I-do-that#MoreAnswers</A>.</P> Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:17:14 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Delete-message-after-consuming-it-from-kafka-topic-is-this/m-p/172676#M37548 ssharma 2016-08-11T17:17:14Z