Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka
Summary: Kora: Confluent Cloud's cloud-native control plane/runtime for Apache Kafka running thousands of clusters across AWS/GCP/Azure to deliver massive-scale event streaming. Workload-focused abstractions and platform mechanisms provide reliability, elasticity, cost-efficiency, and predictable cross-cloud performance. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Anna Povzner (Confluent)
- 2. Prince Mahajan (Confluent)
- 3. Jason Gustafson (Confluent)
- 4. Jun Rao (Confluent)
- 5. Ismael Juma (Confluent)
- 6. Feng Min (Confluent)
- 7. Shriram Sridharan (Confluent)
- 8. Nikhil Bhatia (Confluent)
- 9. Gopi Attaluri (Confluent)
- 10. Adithya Chandra (Confluent)
- 11. Stanislav Kozlovski (Confluent)
- 12. Rajini Sivaram (Confluent)
- 13. Lucas Bradstreet (Confluent)
- 14. Bob Barrett (Confluent)
- 15. Dhruvil Shah (Confluent)
- 16. David Jacot (Confluent)
- 17. David Arthur (Confluent)
- 18. Manveer Chawla (Confluent)
- 19. Ron Dagostino (Confluent)
- 20. Colin McCabe (Confluent)
- 21. Manikumar Reddy Obili (Confluent)
- 22. Kowshik Prakasam (Confluent)
- 23. Jose Garcia Sancio (Confluent)
- 24. Vikas Singh (Confluent)
- 25. Alok Nikhil (Confluent)
- 26. Kamal Gupta (Confluent)
BibTeX Citation
@article{povzner_vldb23,
title = {{Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka}},
author = {Povzner, Anna and Mahajan, Prince and Gustafson, Jason and Rao, Jun and Juma, Ismael and Min, Feng and Sridharan, Shriram and Bhatia, Nikhil and Attaluri, Gopi and Chandra, Adithya and Kozlovski, Stanislav and Sivaram, Rajini and Bradstreet, Lucas and Barrett, Bob and Shah, Dhruvil and Jacot, David and Arthur, David and Chawla, Manveer and Dagostino, Ron and McCabe, Colin and Obili, Manikumar Reddy and Prakasam, Kowshik and Sancio, Jose Garcia and Singh, Vikas and Nikhil, Alok and Gupta, Kamal},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {12},
pages = {3822--3834},
doi = {10.14778/3611540.3611567},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611540.3611567},
year = {2023}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 10,996 | Scribe: How Meta transports terabytes per second in real time | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 895 | Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00013357681 |
| 1,092 | Automated Demand-driven Resource Scaling in Relational Database-as-a-Service | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00012221946 |
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