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Kafka's Broken Promise: There is No Goldilocks Log
Kafka's partitioned stream model is a poor fit for router-style workloads with millions of independently keyed ordered logs. OpenData Log is built in Rust on object storage and SlateDB. It uses segmented LSM storage, key-based scans, metadata-only splits, and read replicas to support high-cardinality log routing more cheaply.
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