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Kafka vs. RabbitMQ: Stream vs. Queue

When should you use Kafka's append-only distributed commit log versus RabbitMQ's smart broker routing topology? In-depth throughput, latency, and operational cost breakdown.

Apache Kafka
High-Throughput Streaming
1M+ msg/sec, re-playable log, event-driven architectures.
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Complex AMQP Routing
Microsecond latency, priority queues, flexible exchange patterns.