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I want to understand whats the difference between confluent Kafka and Apache Kafka

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I would like to understand the difference between Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka especially in terms of additional functionality and delivery options and other important functionalities missing in Apache Kafka

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@harsha vardhan bandaru

Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala and Java.

Confluent Platform includes Apache Kafka but also includes few things that can make Apache Kafka easier to use:

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Thanks Geoff for your swift response

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@harsha vardhan bandaru

Can you accept the answer to close this long overdue thread.