[tyingq]

>The original goal was to have a message queue that holds statistical data

I suppose that might have been the original goal, but the current tag line includes "data integration" and "mission-critical".

"Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications."

[datadeft]

I guess you can add any feature to anything. I think this whole investor driven development is just sad.