Why not use a river?

[ertug]

Hi,

There is also a river for Kafka [1]. What is the advantage of using a standalone consumer?
I think adding such a comparison to README would clarify use cases.

Thank you,
Ertug

[1] https://github.com/endgameinc/elasticsearch-river-kafka

[sbbird]

To support easy hot swapping? I guess sometimes I may want to pretreat messages before pushing them to ES, I can rewrite the consumer (MessageHandler) without restarting Kafka.
Decoupling them is not bad idea I think.

[reachkrishnaraj]

Thanks, @sbbird

[utmishra]

https://www.elastic.co/blog/deprecating-rivers