Why Do We Need Mqtt Broker

Residing on top of the TCP/IP network stack, MQTT is a lightweight publish/subscribe messaging protocol designed for low-bandwidth, high latency, unreliable networks. MQTT’s features make it an excellent option for sending high volumes of sensor messages to analytics platforms and cloud solutions.

Is Kafka a MQTT broker?

Kafka has an extension framework, called Kafka Connect, that allows Kafka to ingest data from other systems. Kafka Connect for MQTT acts as an MQTT client that subscribes to all the messages from an MQTT broker. If you don’t have control of the MQTT broker, Kafka Connect for MQTT is a worthwhile approach to pursue.

What is MQTT good for?

MQTT is used for data exchange between constrained devices and server applications. It keeps bandwidth requirements to an absolute minimum, handles unreliable networks, requires little implementation effort for developers, and is, therefore, ideal for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication.