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Kafka

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Providers using this tag (17)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (31)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
Upstash Developer APIManagement API for creating and administering Upstash Redis, Kafka, and Vector databases, teams, and accoun...36.3Upstash Kafka APIKafka cluster and topic management36.3CloudEvents Kafka Protocol BindingThe Kafka protocol binding for CloudEvents defines how events are mapped to Apache Kafka messages. It speci...36.2KrakenD Async AgentThe KrakenD Async Agent enables event-driven API consumption by connecting KrakenD to message brokers and e...35.7Materialize Streaming Sources and Sinks (AsyncAPI)AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Materialize's event-driven integration surface: Kafka sources (CREATE SOURCE .....33.4Spring Integration Kafka AdapterKafka channel adapters for Spring Integration. Provides message-driven inbound adapters, outbound channel a...33.3Redpanda Kafka APIRedpanda implements the Apache Kafka wire protocol natively, allowing existing Kafka clients (producers, co...33.2Netscout nGenius Business Analytics APIREST and Kafka interfaces for the nGenius Business Analytics platform, enabling service providers to export...29.4Confluent CloudCommercial managed service from Confluent positioned as "the industry's only fully managed data streaming p...29.3Quix Streams (Open Source)Apache 2.0 open source Python library (pip install quixstreams) for building containerized stream-processin...29.3Strimzi Operator APIThe Strimzi Operator API is expressed through Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). Operators are ...27.1Bitquery Kafka StreamsProtobuf-encoded streams of decoded blockchain data delivered via managed Kafka topics. Designed for scale-...26.2Bytewax ConnectorsBuilt-in connector modules for integrating Bytewax dataflows with external systems, including Kafka (with o...26.2

Companies reaching this through an API (21)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Kafka” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Apache Doris Apache Kafka Azure Event Hubs Bitquery Cloudera CloudEvents Cockroach Labs Datadog Events KrakenD Materialize Mercedes-Benz Mercedes me Microsoft Azure Integration Services Netcracker Netscout Oracle Oracle Database Oracle Siebel Red Hat Soveren Spring Integration

Score breakdown

Frequency
46.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
38.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
10.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Event Streaming 12 co-occurrences Stream Processing 5 co-occurrences Pub/Sub 7 co-occurrences Topic 8 co-occurrences Event-Driven 6 co-occurrences SQL 9 co-occurrences Big Data 6 co-occurrences Streaming 20 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag18
Api tag28
Openapi tag3
Openapi op tag21
Asyncapi tag3

Markets provisional

Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.

MarketShare of the market's providers
Streaming (Apache Kafka protocol)25%

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