.. _kafka_clients:

|ak| Clients
=============

This section describes the clients included with |cp|.

|cp| includes client libraries for multiple languages that provide both low-level access to |ak-tm| and higher level stream
processing.

.. include:: ../includes/clients.rst

Feature Support
---------------

The following tables describes the client support for various |cp| features.

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Feature                                 C/C++   Go   Java  .NET  Python
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Admin API                               Yes     Yes   Yes   No     Yes
|c3-short|  metrics integration         Yes     Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes
Custom partitioner                      Yes     No    Yes   No     No
Exactly Once Semantics                  No      No    Yes   No     No
Idempotent Producer                     No      No    Yes   No     No
|kstreams|                              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
Simplified installation                 Yes     No    Yes   Yes    Yes
|sr|                                    Yes     No    Yes   Yes    Yes
Topic Metadata API                      Yes     Yes   Yes   No     Yes
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Contents
   .. toctree::
      :maxdepth: 1

      install
      consumer
      producer
      kafka-jms-client/index
      Connecting Clients to Confluent Cloud <https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/cp-component/clients-cloud-config.html>
      apidocs