Throughput vs Storage: Kafka vs Database 📊

Database:
• High Storage (billions of records)
• Low Throughput (writes/sec limited)
• Complex queries possible ✓

Kafka:
• Very High Throughput (millions/sec!)
• Low Storage (temporary)
• No queries (only sequential)

They don't compete. They complement each other.

Use database for storage, Kafka for streaming.

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