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Kafka

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Providers using this tag (15)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
KongKongAPI GatewayAI GatewayAI Connectivity2 APIs73.2
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
BufCode GenerationgRPCOpen Source2 APIs65.3GraviteeAPI GatewayAPI ManagementAccess ManagementIdentity2 APIs65.2Amazon MSKStreamingApache KafkaEvent Streaming2 APIs58.5
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
WarpStreamStreamingServerlessObject Storage1 API46.1RisingWaveStreamingSQLDatabaseReal-Time6 APIs39.5
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Apache DruidAnalyticsApacheDatabase1 API38.0QuixStream ProcessingReal-TimePython1 API37.6UpstashServerlessRedisMessaging1 API36.2RedpandaStreamingEvent StreamingReal-Time10 APIs33.3BytewaxStream ProcessingPythonDataflowsReal-Time3 APIs31.6StrimziKubernetesMessagingOperator1 API28.6Apache SamzaBig DataHadoopStream Processing1 API27.3
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
StreamkapStreamingETLChange Data Capture1 API25.6
Unrated 1 Not yet scored
Concord SystemsCompanyStream ProcessingReal-TimeData Processing

APIs with this tag (27)

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Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Datadog Confluent Cloud APIThe Confluent Cloud API allows you to manage your Datadog-Confluent Cloud integration accounts and account ...79.1Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka Bridge APIHTTP bridge API for producing and consuming messages to Apache Kafka topics without requiring a native Kafk...70.6Oracle Siebel Event Pub/Sub APIEvent-driven integration framework enabling real-time communication between Siebel CRM and external systems...70.4Cloudera Cruise Control REST APICruise Control on CDP exposes REST endpoints for rebalancing Kafka clusters, monitoring partition load, and...70.3Streams Replication Manager Service REST APIStreams Replication Manager (SRM) exposes a REST API for inspecting cross-cluster Kafka replication topolog...70.3
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
OCI Streaming APIManaged messaging service for ingesting and consuming high-volume data streams in real time, compatible wit...66.0Gravitee Kafka GatewayThe Gravitee Kafka Gateway brings full API management discipline to Apache Kafka. It sits in front of one o...65.2Azure Event Hubs Messaging APIEvent-driven messaging API for publishing and consuming events via AMQP 1.0, Kafka, and HTTPS protocols. Su...59.9
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Mercedes-Benz Fleet APIThe Mercedes-Benz Fleet API integrates vehicle data into fleet management systems without retrofit hardware...51.9Oracle Transactional Event Queues (TxEventQ)Kafka-compatible event streaming and message queuing built into Oracle Database.50.8Azure Event HubsAzure Event Hubs is a big data streaming platform and event ingestion service capable of receiving and proc...49.3Apache DorisApache Doris provides a MySQL-compatible protocol for SQL queries, a REST API for cluster management and mo...41.0Soveren Kafka APIThe Kafka API from Soveren — 4 operation(s) for kafka.39.6
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
CloudEvents Kafka Protocol BindingThe Kafka protocol binding for CloudEvents defines how events are mapped to Apache Kafka messages. It speci...37.6Quix Streams (Open Source)Apache 2.0 open source Python library (pip install quixstreams) for building containerized stream-processin...37.6KrakenD Async AgentThe KrakenD Async Agent enables event-driven API consumption by connecting KrakenD to message brokers and e...37.1Upstash Developer APIManagement API for creating and administering Upstash Redis, Kafka, and Vector databases, teams, and accoun...36.2Upstash Kafka APIKafka cluster and topic management36.2Materialize Streaming Sources and Sinks (AsyncAPI)AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Materialize's event-driven integration surface: Kafka sources (CREATE SOURCE .....34.9Spring Integration Kafka AdapterKafka channel adapters for Spring Integration. Provides message-driven inbound adapters, outbound channel a...33.4Redpanda Kafka APIRedpanda implements the Apache Kafka wire protocol natively, allowing existing Kafka clients (producers, co...33.3Bitquery Kafka StreamsProtobuf-encoded streams of decoded blockchain data delivered via managed Kafka topics. Designed for scale-...32.3Bytewax ConnectorsBuilt-in connector modules for integrating Bytewax dataflows with external systems, including Kafka (with o...31.6Netscout nGenius Business Analytics APIREST and Kafka interfaces for the nGenius Business Analytics platform, enabling service providers to export...30.9Confluent CloudCommercial managed service from Confluent positioned as "the industry's only fully managed data streaming p...28.8Strimzi Operator APIThe Strimzi Operator API is expressed through Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). Operators are ...28.6
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS) — Kafka StreamsReal-time Nasdaq market data delivered over Apache Kafka (TLS) with SASL/OAUTHBEARER authentication against...18.0

Companies reaching this through an API (20)

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

Score breakdown

Frequency
44.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
53.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
8.3
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Event Streaming 11 co-occurrences Stream Processing 5 co-occurrences Topic 7 co-occurrences Event-Driven 7 co-occurrences Pub-Sub 5 co-occurrences API Management 6 co-occurrences SQL 8 co-occurrences Big Data 6 co-occurrences

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