Apache Kafka is by many standards the go-to solution for consistent, highly available and fault tolerant event store and stream-processing platform. As it is open source, there are a multitude of additions that you can add to your plain Kafka installation to make it more useful to your application. There are also a couple of commercial installations available, all with the promise of being more Kafka for your Kafka needs. But are they suited for what you need?

Lets find out by comparing:
OG Kafka in k8s
Commercial distributions
A secret 3th option?

And maybe you’ll find your solution