Apache Kafka has many advantages, but it has a few
limitations
as well, a few of them are:-
Open-source Apache Kafka does not provide a complete set of
monitoring
and managing tools.
user needs to provide the exact topic name as it does not supports
wildcard
.
Apache Kafka depends on the
zookeeper
and if the zookeeper is troubled, the entire Kafka will be down.
Kafka
throughput
hinders because Brokers and consumers have to compress and decompress the data flow.
Apache Kafka behaves a bit
clumsily
when the message queue increases
use cases for apache kafka