This is a repackaged software product wherein additional charges apply for the installation and configuration of apache kafka which is a distributed data store optimized for ingesting and processing streaming data in real-time. It is primarily used to build real-time streaming data pipelines and applications that adapt to the data streams. It combines messaging, storage, and stream processing to allow storage and analysis of both historical and real-time data. It uses a partitioned log model, which combines messaging queue and publish subscribe approaches. It uses binary protocol over TCP.