Benchmarking Apache Kafka® write throughput performance [2019 UPDATE]

Apache Kafka's write throughput performance has been updated by Aiven, a managed cloud services provider. The benchmark test was conducted to reflect real-world workloads better than the previous 2017 test. Changes were made to the setup and monthly throughput cost calculations for each plan on different cloud platforms. Business-4, Business-8, and Premium-6x-8 plans were tested, with impressive results in terms of messages per second and throughput in MB/second. The cost per performance was also calculated for each plan. Aiven Kafka continues to perform well and scales nicely with added resources and increased cluster sizes.