Can Apache Kafka Replace a Database?

[@KashishBhatia90]

One of the best Kafka related content on youtube. Thank you!

[@kosmologic6007]

Great explanation, thanks! I like especially database out with Kafka as a writer pipe and storage in different dbs (depending on the purpose).

[@sunilb128]

Thank you for creating this video. It broaden by prospective about Kafka. Super helpful !

[@yusufnar]

I liked that. Quite informative.

[@jordangardiner8951]

Hi Kai! Firstly great video, after watching this I starting investigating how I could treat Kafka as a database and how KSQLdb could help support this. I have a question about unique keys/auto increment which I'm hoping you can help me answer. How would I do the following scenario (based on an app & relational DB approach) in Kafka & KSQLdb. - The application creates an order and stores the user_id and fees in a table called order, the tables primary key is an auto incremented int starting at 0. As the database is taking care of the order id the application does not need to manage this, this is what I am trying to replicate in Kafka/KSQLdb. Any ideas on how to resolve this? Cheers!

Sorry, I don't do much hands-on these days. The Confluent community (forum.confluent.io/) or Slack channel is likely the best location to discuss this.

[@helmudcole899]

I don't understand what version of Kafka is this talk about. It was said that community version doesn't have any features.

The whole talk is about Apache Kafka. Confluent Tiered Storage is a component that is only available as part of the commercial Confluent Platform.