Data collected automatically from official APIs (GitHub, npm, PyPI, crates.io) by the devtools-data pipeline. Last data refresh: 2026-07-07. Every number links to its source and capture date.

Apache Kafka vs NATS

Apache Kafka has 33,125 GitHub stars vs 20,156 for NATS.

GitHub API · captured 2026-07-07

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Which ships more often, Apache Kafka or NATS?

In the 90 days before 2026-07-07, Apache Kafka published 0 releases and NATS published 21.

	Apache Kafka	NATS
License	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0
Latest version	—	—
GitHub stars	33,125	20,156
GitHub forks	15,327	1,859
Open issues	436	520
Releases (90d)	0	21
npm downloads (week)	—	—

Sources: official APIs (GitHub, npm, PyPI, crates.io). Capture dates shown on each tool page. Missing value = the source does not publish it ("—", never estimated).