Spark Streaming + Kafka Integration Guide

Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. Please read the Kafka documentation thoroughly before starting an integration using Spark.

The Kafka project introduced a new consumer api between versions 0.8 and 0.10, so there are 2 separate corresponding Spark Streaming packages available. Please choose the correct package for your brokers and desired features; note that the 0.8 integration is compatible with later 0.9 and 0.10 brokers, but the 0.10 integration is not compatible with earlier brokers.

spark-streaming-kafka-0-8spark-streaming-kafka-0-10
Broker Version 0.8.2.1 or higher 0.10.0 or higher
Api Stability Stable Experimental
Language Support Scala, Java, Python Scala, Java
Receiver DStream Yes No
Direct DStream Yes Yes
SSL / TLS Support No Yes
Offset Commit Api No Yes
Dynamic Topic Subscription No Yes