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NATS vs Kafka resource collection

Discover the similarities and crucial differences between NATS and Kafka in this collection of resources, and learn why more engineering teams are choosing NATS.

Developers, architects,
and operators love NATS

NATS is a high-performance, open source technology enabling global connectivity of services and data, from cloud to edge.

Developers

Build progressive distributed applications with location transparent messaging, streaming, key-value, and object storage APIs.

Architects

Span multiple clouds, geographies, and extend to the edge with the ability to change this topology on-demand without interrupting existing workloads.

Operators

Get built-in server management, security, and monitoring tooling enabling complete visibility and control over the entire system.

"NATS gave us everything we used Kafka for, but had a number of additional benefits."

Neil AlexanderEngineer

Why more engineering teams
are choosing NATS

Discover some of the most common reasons teams trust NATS to run their distributed systems.

Simplicity

NATS is easier to on-board, manage, extend, and maintain than Kafka.

Savings

NATS requires less infrastructure & simplifies operations resulting in 88% TCO advantage.

Integration

NATS is designed to run in multi-cloud and edge environments.

Zero Rewriting

Extend your cloud application deployments seamlessly to Edge with no application rewrites.

Agility

NATS is more than streaming. It is also PubSub, Request-Reply, KeyValue & Objectstore use-cases.

Modern

NATS is a single 15mb GoLang binary with no external dependencies. Kakfa is built in JAVA and comes with JVM dependencies.