Hutch vs Kafka Manager: What are the differences?

Hutch: Inter-Service Communication with RabbitMQ. Hutch is a Ruby library for enabling asynchronous inter-service communication in a service-oriented architecture, using RabbitMQ; Kafka Manager: A tool for managing Apache Kafka, developed by Yahoo. This interface makes it easier to identify topics which are unevenly distributed across the cluster or have partition leaders unevenly distributed across the cluster. It supports management of multiple clusters, preferred replica election, replica re-assignment, and topic creation. It is also great for getting a quick bird’s eye view of the cluster.

Hutch and Kafka Manager belong to "Message Queue" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Hutch are:

• A simple way to define consumers (queues are automatically created and bound to the exchange with the appropriate binding keys)
• An executable and CLI for running consumers (akin to rake resque:work)
• Automatic setup of the central exchange

On the other hand, Kafka Manager provides the following key features:

• Manage multiple clusters
• Easy inspection of cluster state (topics, brokers, replica distribution, partition distribution)
• Run preferred replica election

Hutch and Kafka Manager are both open source tools. It seems that Kafka Manager with 7.55K GitHub stars and 1.84K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Hutch with 712 GitHub stars and 103 GitHub forks.