Sheetka
📝 Unsaved Draft · the spreadsheet-native Kafka · a project of the SNCF
A log-structured streaming broker on an append-only tab.
📝 Unsaved Draft · the spreadsheet-native Kafka · a project of the SNCF
A log-structured streaming broker on an append-only tab.
A topic is a sheet, a partition is an append-only tab, ordering is row order. Producers append rows; consumers poll from a stored offset; consumer groups track offsets in a tab; retention trims old rows. An append-only tab is a near-perfect log.
Partitions as tabs; ordering is row order.
Consumers poll from a stored offset; groups in an offsets tab.
Trim old rows; compaction on the roadmap.
| Sheetka 💩 | Kafka | |
|---|---|---|
| Storage model | Append-only log | Append-only log |
| Throughput | Modest (API rate) | Very high |
| Ordering | Per-partition | Per-partition |
| Spreadsheet-native | ✅ | ❌ |