ApsaraMQ for Kafka:What is ApsaraMQ for Confluent?

Confluent Platform

Confluent Platform is a full-scale streaming platform that enables you to easily access, store, and manage data as continuous real-time streams. Built by the original creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform is an enterprise-ready platform that completes Kafka with advanced capabilities and reduces the management and monitoring workloads of Kafka. The advanced capabilities of Confluent Platform are designed to help accelerate application development and connectivity, enable event transformations based on stream processing, simplify enterprise operations at scale, and meet stringent architectural requirements.

Confluent Platform allows you to focus on how to derive business value from your data rather than worrying about the underlying mechanics, such as how data is transported or integrated between disparate systems. Confluent Platform simplifies connecting data sources to Kafka, building streaming applications, as well as securing, monitoring, and managing your Kafka infrastructure. Confluent Platform is used for a wide array of use cases across numerous industries, including financial services, omnichannel retail, autonomous driving, fraud detection, microservices, and IoT. For more information, see Confluent Platform Overview.

ApsaraMQ for Confluent

Alibaba Cloud collaborates with Confluent, the original creator of Apache Kafka, to provide ApsaraMQ for Confluent, which is a one-stop solution for message stream processing and big data system integration. You can purchase an Enterprise Edition Kafka Confluent cluster in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace based on your cluster scale in a production environment. As a fully managed service, ApsaraMQ for Confluent can help resolve the following pain points:

• Demand for an authorized and fully managed enterprise-grade Kafka service in the cloud: ApsaraMQ for Confluent provides authorized Confluent Platform licenses at a lower price.

• Difficulties arising from the complexity of creating a Kafka cluster: ApsaraMQ for Confluent allows you to complete model selection, cluster deployment, and message event management within less than an hour. This frees you from the cost of deploying big data software in a cluster by yourself.

Benefits

Alibaba Cloud is the first cloud service provider that has established a partnership with Confluent in the Chinese mainland. ApsaraMQ for Confluent provided by Alibaba Cloud allows you to use the enterprise-grade features of Confluent Platform and provides the following benefits:

• The Confluent team writes and commits 80% of the code for Apache Kafka and has over 1 million hours of experience building and supporting Apache Kafka.

• Confluent expands Apache Kafka and makes it a safe and enterprise-grade platform.

• Confluent helps enterprises deploy event streams on a large scale and achieve a shorter time to market.

• High service-level agreements (SLAs) and data persistence: Professional teams help ensure higher availability and messages are persistently enqueued. This helps ensure high data reliability and service availability.

  • High throughput: ApsaraMQ for Confluent ensures high cluster throughput even if a large number of messages are accumulated.

  • ApsaraMQ for Conflent provides automatic inspection and O&M capabilities. The service availability can reach 99.9%, and the data reliability can reach 99.999999%.

• Zero O&M and high observability: Alibaba Cloud provides an experienced, professional O&M team and an advanced O&M system for ApsaraMQ for Confluent.

  • HouseKeeping: This component checks the status of the core links of ApsaraMQ for Confluent, scans and diagnoses clusters at an interval of 1 minute, and then generates alerts for unhealthy instances. HouseKeeping also provides daily overall inspection reports to help O&M engineers monitor the health status of ApsaraMQ for Confluent instances.

  • Service monitoring and alerting: The system monitors message accumulation in each consumer group and generates alerts for exceptions. This helps you detect issues at the earliest opportunity.

  • API operations: ApsaraMQ for Confluent provides a complete set of API operations. You can call these operations to manage resources and perform O&M operations.

• Immediate use: ApsaraMQ for Confluent provides fully managed Confluent Platform services. You can use ApsaraMQ for Confluent immediately after you activate it.

• Seamless migration: ApsaraMQ for Confluent allows you to migrate workloads on Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and self-managed Apache Kafka clusters with ease. During the migration, you do not need to modify your application code. This greatly reduces migration costs and technical risks and enables you to enjoy the benefits of cloud services, such as auto scaling, high availability, and global deployment.