Kafka API constraints

YDB supports Apache Kafka protocol version 3.4.0 with the following constraints:

  1. Message compression is not supported.
  2. The topic deletion operation is not supported. To delete a topic, use YQL or YDB CLI.
  3. CRC checks are not supported.
  4. Support for ACL is not provided. Use YQL to manage access to topics.
  5. If auto-partitioning is enabled on a topic, you cannot write to or read from such a topic using the Kafka API.