Kafka Clients

Redpanda is Apache Kafka ® API compatible so any client that works with Kafka should work out of the box with Redpanda.

Here’s an article that we have about it:

Here’s a list of clients which we have tested with:

Language	Client	Link
Java	Apache Kafka Java Client	https://github.com/apache/kafka
C/C++	librdkafka	https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
Go	franz-go	https://github.com/twmb/franz-go
Python	kafka-python	https://pypi.org/project/kafka-python
JS	KafkaJS	https://kafka.js.org
PHP	php-simple-kafka-client	https://github.com/php-kafka/php-simple-kafka-client

Language

Client

Link

Java

Apache Kafka Java Client

C/C++

librdkafka

franz-go

Python