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What Kafka Streams Is (and Is Not) Kafka Streams is a client library, not a service. That distinction matters more than almost anything else in this comparison. When you use Kafka Streams, you write Java or Kotlin code that imports the Kafka Streams ...

The Fundamental Difference: OLAP Over History vs Streaming Over Live Data Before comparing specific features, it is worth being precise about what problem each database solves, because this choice is ultimately about use case fit rather than which da...
