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Comparing the Scalability of Kafka and YDB Topics

TalkinRussianat Saint HighLoad++ 2025 · 2025-06-23..06-24· [data-engineering, distributed-systems]
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Compares scalability of Apache Kafka versus YDB Topics for high-throughput messaging systems, focusing on how each broker behaves when scaling. Describes practical issues encountered during expansion and contrasts architectures and scalability trade-offs to help teams choose or plan growth.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 2:12YDB Topics overview
  3. 7:08Partition scaling issues
  4. 10:35Cluster storage management
  5. 15:53Fault tolerance on failures
  6. 19:24Adding new brokers
  7. 23:17Cluster scalability limit
  8. 27:50Millions of partitions comparison
  9. 28:52Kafka vs YDB comparison
  10. 33:49Q&A
  11. 49:14Summary
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