title: What is the difference between a "Kafka Spout" and a "kafka Consumer"?
body: <p>both "Kafka Spout" and "Kafka Consumer" do retrieve data from the Kafka Brokers, the spout so far i know is for communicating with Storm, and the Consumer is with whatever else.</p>
  
  <p>-but still, what is the difference technically?</p>
  
  <p>-or what would be the difference between If i pulled out the data using a Consumer then receive it using a "Storm Spout" and between if i just used a "Kafka Spout" then add it to my Storm Topology Builder's setSpout(); function</p>
  
  <p>-and when to use Consumer, or a Kafka Spout</p>