Kafka API constraints
YDB supports Apache Kafka protocol version 3.4.0 with the following constraints:
- Only authenticated connections are allowed.
- Only
SASL/PLAIN
authentication method is supported. - Message compression is not supported.
- Transactions are not supported.
- DDL operations are not supported. Use the YDB SDK or YDB CLI to perform them.
- Data schema validation not supported.
- Kafka Connect is supported only in standalone mode.
- Kafka API can't be used to read from or write to topics with enabled autopartitioning.