The release of Kafka 0.9, its commercial counterpart Confluent Platform 2.0, and new distro component MapR Streams, bring prominence and maturity to streaming data processing in the Hadoop ecosystem.

At the heart of an effective stream-based architecture is the right message-passing technology. An emerging class of message-passing software, including Apache Kafka and MapR Streams, supports ...

With its acquisition of Immerok, Confluent aims to expand data stream processing and further enable enterprise applications.