Streaming Vs Message Queue

Message queue:

• Do computation on one individual message
• Ensure no data is lost
• Usecases:
  • Good for batching,
  • Good for critical job

Stream processing:

• Apply complex operations on multiple input streams (multiple messages) at the same time
• Usecases:
  • Good for real-time event streaming
  • good for data analytics
  • Replay stream

[!note]
Kafka supports Kafka Connect and Kafka Stream which makes streaming is also possible