What is Apache Kafka?
Apache Kafka is an open-source event stream-processing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The goal of the project is to provide a highly scalable platform for handling real-time data feeds.

Turn events into action with continuous streaming
When looking to handle large data feeds, the publish/subscribe and streaming functions of Apache Kafka provide secure, reliable message delivery. From those data streams, you can glean insights that can be turned into purposeful actions. With complex functions such as aggregations, joins, and filters, you’re able to perform stateful computations to identify and react to events as they occur in real time to sustain a competitive advantage.
Complement your open source messaging implementations
Add web, mobile, and IoT messaging, world-class integration, streaming analytics, and other enterprise platform capabilities to Apache Kafka, allowing architects and developers to provide a broader messaging solution that includes expanded capabilities and first-class global support.

World-class engineering and support
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Broadest messaging portfolio
TIBCO Messaging offers the most comprehensive messaging portfolio, including fully distributed high-performance peer-to-peer messaging, certified JMS messaging, open source messaging supporting Apache Kafka and MQTT, and web, mobile and IoT messaging in a single, seamlessly integrated platform.
Publish and Subscribe
Store, Process, and Replay Streams
Schema Repository - Apache Kafka Distribution
Interoperability Across all TIBCO Messaging
TIBCO announces the addition of Apache Kafka to TIBCO Messaging. Backed by TIBCO’s 25 years of industry-leading messaging expertise and innovation, businesses using Apache Kafka can take advantage of enterprise-class support for their messaging infrastructure. This announcement includes:
- TIBCO supplied distribution of Apache Kafka: TIBCO® Messaging - Apache Kafka Distribution
- Available as a component in the free Community Edition or the Enterprise Edition of TIBCO Messaging
- Bridge for full integration with the rest of TIBCO Messaging
TIBCO Messaging - Enterprise Edition is available as a single subscription which includes all TIBCO Messaging components1 starting at $750 per year per standalone client Instance or 100 web/mobile/IoT client instances
1 TIBCO Messaging includes TIBCO FTL®, TIBCO eFTL™, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™, TIBCO® Messaging - Apache Kafka Distribution, and TIBCO® Messaging - Eclipse Mosquitto Distribution.