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Basic Concepts

Updated on 2022-09-14 GMT+08:00

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Topic
Messages of the same type maintained by the Kafka are called a topic.
Partition
Each topic can be divided into multiple partitions. Each partition corresponds to an appendant log file whose sequence is fixed.
Producer
The role that sends messages to a Kafka topic is called Producer.
Consumer
The role that obtains messages from Kafka topics is called Consumer.

Broker
Each node server in the Kafka cluster is called a Broker.

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