Alternate Data Sharing Mechanisms

Discussion

Social Registry supports Data Sharing mechanisms. Apart from the mechanisms already described, alternate data-sharing mechanisms are being considered for large-volume data sharing across networks.

• While Kafka can be used for data sharing it has the following limitations:

  • It recreates partitions if the TCP connection drops (explain)

  • Accessing Kafka across networks on the Internet is a challenge as it does not run on standard ports like 80,443. This makes it hard to make it work across systems as firewall rules prevent access to non-standard ports.

  • So Kafka is a great option for sharing data within a network, or data center but not for sharing data across data centers.

• In OpenG2P we are considering similar system for sharing registry data for printing of social ID cards.