title: How to throttle Kafka Consumer on the basis of QPS to be supported?
body: <p><strong>Use Case :</strong> 
  Consume Data from Kafka, and then write to a DB which is bound by a max QPS. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Predicted solution :</strong>
  throttle the rate of consumption to a limit which is less the max write QPS of the DB. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Query</strong>:
  Guava gives a rate limiter which can be implemented here, but does Kafka supports consumer rate limiting itself rather than implementing third party options. </p>
  
  <p><strong>References</strong> for features on Kafka Rate Limiting : 
  <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-13+-+Quotas" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-13+-+Quotas</a></p>
  
  <p>Also, how can the quota rate limiting can be applied in this case ?</p>