Why is Kafka so fast | Searene
As we all know that Kafka is very fast, much faster than most of its competitors. So what's the reason here?
Avoid Random Disk Access
Kafka writes everything onto the disk in order and consumers fetch data in order too. So disk access always works sequentially instead of randomly. For traditional hard disks(HDD), sequential access is much faster than random access. Here is a comparison:
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