Programming Languages and Tools for Apache Kafka®

With Apache Kafka®, you can develop applications in your preferred programming language with your own IDEs and test frameworks. See the following programming languages and tools, with working examples, that show you how to read from, process, and write data to Kafka clusters.

If you have questions or suggestions, please reach out in the Community Forum.

Programming Languages

Supported by Confluent

Java

Python

Go

.NET

C/C++

REST

SQL

For more information and feature comparisons across these clients for Apache Kafka, please check the documentation.

Supported by the Kafka community

Clojure	D	Erlang	Groovy	Haskell	Kotlin	Ktor
Lisp	Node.js	OCaml	Perl	PHP	Ruby
Rust	Scala	Spring Boot	Swift	Tcl

Tools

Confluent CLI (Cloud)

Confluent CLI

Kafka CLI

kafkacat

Datagen