.. _kafka_clients:

Kafka Clients
=============

This section discusses the Kafka clients included with the Confluent
Platform including the Java client, the high-performance
C/C++ client called `librdkafka <https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka>`_,
and the Python client
`confluent-kafka-python <https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python>`_.

.. tip::

  You may also want to take a look at :ref:`Kafka Streams <kafka_streams>`,
  which is a powerful, easy-to-use library for building highly scalable,
  fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing applications on top of Kafka.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   consumer
   producer
   apidocs