Copyright (c) 2012-2019, Magnus Edenhill.
https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
librdkafka is a C library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol, providing Producer, Consumer and Admin clients. It was designed with message delivery reliability and high performance in mind, current figures exceed 1 million msgs/second for the producer and 3 million msgs/second for the consumer.
librdkafka is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license.
NOTE: The master
branch is actively developed, use latest release for production use.
On Mac OSX, install librdkafka with homebrew:
$ brew install librdkafka
On Debian and Ubuntu, install librdkafka from the Confluent APT repositories, see instructions here and then install librdkafka:
$ apt install librdkafka-dev
On RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, install librdkafka from the Confluent YUM repositories, instructions here and then install librdkafka:
$ yum install librdkafka-devel
On Windows, reference librdkafka.redist NuGet package in your Visual Studio project.
For other platforms, follow the source building instructions below.
The GNU toolchain GNU make pthreads zlib-dev (optional, for gzip compression support) libssl-dev (optional, for SSL and SASL SCRAM support) libsasl2-dev (optional, for SASL GSSAPI support) libzstd-dev (optional, for ZStd compression support)
NOTE: Static linking of ZStd (requires zstd >= 1.2.1) in the producer enables encoding the original size in the compression frame header, which will speed up the consumer. Use STATIC_LIB_zstd=/path/to/libzstd.a ./configure --enable-static
to enable static ZStd linking. MacOSX example: STATIC_LIB_zstd=$(brew ls -v zstd | grep libzstd.a$) ./configure --enable-static
./configure # Or, to automatically install dependencies using the system's package manager: # ./configure --install-deps # Or, build dependencies from source: # ./configure --install-deps --source-deps-only make sudo make install
NOTE: See README.win32 for instructions how to build on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio.
NOTE: See CMake instructions for experimental CMake build (unsupported).
Refer to the examples directory for code using:
Producers: basic producers, idempotent producers
Performance tester
Refer to the examples GitHub repo for code connecting to a cloud streaming data service based on Apache Kafka
Link your program with -lrdkafka
(C) or -lrdkafka++
(C++).
Commercial support is available from Confluent Inc
Only the last official release is supported for community members.
File bug reports, feature requests and questions using GitHub Issues
Questions and discussions are also welcome on the Confluent Community slack #clients channel, or irc.freenode.org #apache-kafka channel.