Kafka Clients¶
This section describes the clients included with Confluent Platform.
Confluent Platform includes client libraries for multiple languages that provide both low-level access to Apache Kafka® and higher level stream processing.
Feature Support¶
The following tables describes the client support for various Confluent Platform features.
Feature | C/C++ | Go | Java | .NET | Python |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Admin API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Control Center metrics integration | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Custom partitioner | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Exactly Once Semantics | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Idempotent Producer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Kafka Streams | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Record Headers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SASL Kerberos/GSSAPI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SASL PLAIN | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SASL SCRAM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SASL OAUTHBEARER | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Simplified installation | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Schema Registry | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Topic Metadata API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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