Component packages
You can install the component packages via an APT or YUM repository. Use these packages only when you need a single component
on your server, e.g. on production servers.
avro
C/C++ Avro serialization library. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-control-center
A web-based tool for managing and monitoring Kafka. For more information, see the documentation. This is a commercial component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-kafka
Kafka, including Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect framework, and Kafka Java client. For more information, see the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-kafka-connect-elasticsearch
Elasticsearch Connector for Connect (Sink). For more information, see the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-kafka-connect-jdbc
JDBC Source and Sink Connectors for Kafka Connect. For more information, see the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-kafka-connect-replicator
Multi-Datacenter Replication. For more information, see the documentation. This is a commercial component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-kafka-dotnet
.NET client library. For more information, see the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
- Code repository – available on NuGet
- Source packages – included in ZIP and TAR archives under
src/
directory
confluent-kafka-go
Go client library. For more information, see the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
- Code repository – available on GitHub
- Source packages – included in ZIP and TAR archives under
src/
directory
confluent-kafka-python
Python client library. For more information, see the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
- Python package – available on PyPI
- Source packages – included in ZIP and TAR archives under
src/
directory
confluent-kafka-rest
HTTP REST Proxy for Kafka. For more information, see the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-ksqldb
ksqlDB is the streaming SQL engine for Kafka. For more information, see the ksqlDB documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-libserdes
C/C++ Avro Serialization with Schema Registry support. For more information, see the libserdes GitHub documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-rebalancer
Automatically balance data and partitions between brokers in Kafka cluster. For more information, see
the documentation. This is a commercial component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-schema-registry
Schema Registry is a RESTful schema registry service for managing Avro schemas. For more information, see the Schema Registry documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.
confluent-server
Confluent Server is a component of Confluent Platform that includes Kafka and additional commercial
features. The following is a few key features included in Confluent Server:
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- LDAP Authorizer
- Tiered Storage
- Self-Balancing Clusters
- Confluent Operator
Confluent Server is fully compatible with Kafka, and you can migrate in place between Confluent Server
and Kafka. Confluent Server includes Kafka and a number of commercial features.
Confluent Server is a commercial component of Confluent Platform.