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Is Kafka an event bus or a publisher subscriber (pubsub)pattern?

Building on this answer here, and its comments it entails that subscribers need to know and locate the publishers in a traditional pub/sub system. It also entails that publishers need to live at least as long as the consumers.

One of the most widely known pub/sub systems today is Kafka. However, in the case of Kafka, we have a broker, which means that it isn't a pub/sub in the above regard, but rather, an event bus (or both?) as subscribers don't need to know about publishers. Also, in the case of Kafka,the lifetime of a publisher is independent of the lifetime of a subscriber, like in event bus.

I am guessing here that since Kafka also implements ordering (i.e. commit log is sequential) it makes it a hybrid of a queue, pub/sub and an event bus patterns. Is that a correct statement?