In addition to Kafka, which is supported for all data transport, we support the following alternative data transport mechanisms and encoding:

CDF-T

Transport: TCP
Message Encoding: InfluxDB Line Protocol, JSON
Other off-the-shelf implementations: Telegraf, InfluxDB, InfluxDB+Grafana

CDF-M

Transport: TCP
Message Encoding: Fixed-format Encode, Influx, JSON (can contain original Blob)
Other off-the-shelf implementations: N/A

CDF-I

Transport: Customer-provided JMS
Message Encoding: Google Protobuf, JSON
Other off-the-shelf implementations: ActiveMQ (Data Broker running on VMX-Analysis)