Kafka has become the default streaming data transport technology for data in motion across virtually all modern data pipelines. As low latency connectivity between these diverse systems is critical in enterprises adopting digital transformation, real-time data movement from the edge to the core and back is becoming crucial. For this reason, a strong integration of Kafka data streams and the Aerospike Real-time Data Platform delivers a perfect marriage of a reliable real-time data transport with a high-performance data persistence and data processing engine.