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This is missing the whole point of Kafka consumers, which is to consume data from a topic and do something with it.

One of those things being “store it in a relational model” or “write a sum to a key value store” or something else.

This ability comes for free with Kafka, but is very not-free when using a relational model.

>>LgWood+(OP)
> This is missing the whole point of Kafka consumers

It's not missing that because it doesn't even address that. I'm answering a specific point.

>>LgWood+(OP)
They were answering this statement:

> Relational database seem to be a crazily overengineered solution in search of a problem

Why would an answer to that need to mention Kafka consumers?

>>robert+ah2
* When all you need is an unbounded stream of data that you need to traverse in order to do all these things.*

This is the part I was responding to.

>>LgWood+J86
You're talking about "putting a snapshot of the data somewhere" - the person you're replying to is replying to someone who says this sort of snapshot is pointless.