apache kafka performance vs. event store performance for a single node

EventStoreDB
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Hi

Would you consider the performance of event store, for a single node, to be on par with a single apache Kafka node?

Thanks.

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Haven’t seen all their benchmarks but my guess would be yes. We have micro benchmarks hitting over 100k events/second. There are also some key differences. Creating a huge number of keys (streams) for example is a bad idea in Kafka where as the cost of a stream in event store is basically free. They have a nicer elasticity story which is just something we are getting into now.

Cheers,

Rev

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Can you tell me more about how you are hitting 100.000 events per second? What hardware, number of streams etc..