KafkaDirect: Zero-copy Data Access for Apache Kafka over RDMA Networks
Summary: KafkaDirect extends Apache Kafka with RDMA-based zero-copy data paths, bypassing buffers for producers, replicas, and consumers. Offloading to RDMA yields up to 9× throughput and 4×–50× latency reductions, vs. TCP/IP Kafka. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Konstantin Taranov
- 2. Steve Byan
- 3. Virendra Marathe
- 4. Torsten Hoefler
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| 1,206 | Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA | 2015 | SIGMOD | 0.00013281657 |
| 1,361 | The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00012379741 |
| 1,409 | High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00012132768 |
| 1,497 | Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00011685781 |
| 1,819 | The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale | 2017 | VLDB | 0.00010429773 |
| 1,852 | Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.00010322492 |
| 3,936 | Rethinking Database High Availability with RDMA Networks | 2019 | VLDB | 6.6162264e-05 |
| 5,753 | Building a Replicated Logging System with Apache Kafka | 2015 | VLDB | 5.3404371e-05 |
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