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.

Install	Documentation
C/C++	github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
Go	github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go
Java	Kafka Consumer and Kafka Producer
JMS	JMS Client
.NET	github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-dotnet
Python	github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python

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

Contents

• Install Clients
• Kafka Consumer
• Kafka Producer
• JMS Client
• Connecting Clients to Confluent Cloud
• Clients API Reference