What is a Data Fabric?

Data fabric architecture provides consistent data access and unified capabilities across distributed apps, systems, and environments. With the ability to provide large amounts of data across many different platforms extremely quickly, a data fabric provides automated, intelligent system integration to break down data and communication silos within your organization.

Apache Kafka was originally built to become the ultimate Data Fabric solution. Confluent’s complete data streaming platform + cloud-native Kafka was built to break down disparate lines of business each with its own technology vertical, interconnections, and duplicated data. These tools help to take the task of creating brittle transformations and the copying of data and turn it into a robust data streaming system built for performance and scalability.