Kafka Clients¶

This section describes the clients included with Confluent Platform.

Confluent Platform includes client libraries for multiple languages that provide both low-level access to Apache Kafka® and higher level stream processing.

Examples	API reference	GitHub
C/C++ Client	C/C++	librdkafka
Go Client	Go	confluent-kafka-go
Java Client	Java	apache-kafka-java
.NET Client	.NET	confluent-kafka-dotnet
Python Client	Python	confluent-kafka-python

Feature Support¶

The following tables describes the client support for various Confluent Platform features.

Feature	C/C++	Go	Java	.NET	Python
Admin API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Control Center metrics integration	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Custom partitioner	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Exactly Once Semantics	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Idempotent Producer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Kafka Streams	No	No	Yes	No	No
Record Headers	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SASL Kerberos/GSSAPI	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SASL PLAIN	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SASL SCRAM	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SASL OAUTHBEARER	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Simplified installation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Schema Registry	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Topic Metadata API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Other Languages¶

There are many programming languages that provide Kafka client libraries. The following “Hello, World!” examples are written in various languages to demonstrate how to produce to and consume from an Apache Kafka® cluster, which can be in Confluent Cloud, on your local host, or any other Kafka cluster. For the subset of languages that support it, the code examples also demonstrate how to use Avro and Confluent Schema Registry.

There are additional examples for Kafka and Confluent Platform command line tools and components: