We performed a comparison between Amazon Kinesis and Azure Stream Analytics based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon Kinesis ultimately wins out in this comparison. According to reviews, Amazon Kinesis appears to be a more robust and high performing solution.
"The solution's technical support is flawless."
"Everything is hosted and simple."
"Amazon Kinesis also provides us with plenty of flexibility."
"Great auto-scaling, auto-sharing, and auto-correction features."
"What I like about Amazon Kinesis is that it's very effective for small businesses. It's a well-managed solution with excellent reporting. Amazon Kinesis is also easy to use, and even a novice developer can work with it, versus Apache Kafka, which requires expertise."
"Amazon Kinesis's main purpose is to provide near real-time data streaming at a consistent 2Mbps rate, which is really impressive."
"Setting Amazon Kinesis up is quick and easy; it only takes a few minutes to configure the necessary settings and start using it."
"The feature that I've found most valuable is the replay. That is one of the most valuable in our business. We are business-to-business so replay was an important feature - being able to replay for 24 hours. That's an important feature."
"Technical support is pretty helpful."
"It provides the capability to streamline multiple output components."
"Provides deep integration with other Azure resources."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The life cycle, report management and crash management features are great."
"The solution has a lot of functionality that can be pushed out to companies."
"I like the way the UI looks, and the real-time analytics service is aligned to this. That can be helpful if I have to use this on a production service."
"We find the query editor feature of this solution extremely valuable for our business."
"The price is not much cheaper. So, there is room for improvement in the pricing."
"I suggest integrating additional features, such as incorporating Amazon Pinpoint or Amazon Connect as bundled offerings, rather than deploying them as separate services."
"There are certain shortcomings in the machine learning capacity offered by the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"One area for improvement in the solution is the file size limitation of 10 Mb. My company works with files with a larger file size. The batch size and throughput also need improvement in Amazon Kinesis."
"Lacks first in, first out queuing."
"AI processing or cleaning up data would be nice since I don't think it is a feature in Amazon Kinesis right now."
"It would be beneficial if Amazon Kinesis provided document based support on the internet to be able to read the data from the Kinesis site."
"Snapshot from the the from the the stream of the data analytic I have already on the cloud, do a snapshot to not to make great or to get the data out size of the web service. But to stop the process and restart a few weeks later when I have more data or more available of the client teams."
"The solution doesn't handle large data packets very efficiently, which could be improved upon."
"Its features for event imports and architecture could be enhanced."
"If something goes wrong, it's very hard to investigate what caused it and why."
"Azure Stream Analytics could improve by having clearer metrics as to the scale, more metrics around the data set size that is flowing through it, and performance tuning recommendations."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"I would like to have a contact individual at Microsoft."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The collection and analysis of historical data could be better."
Amazon Kinesis is ranked 1st in Streaming Analytics with 24 reviews while Azure Stream Analytics is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 22 reviews. Amazon Kinesis is rated 8.0, while Azure Stream Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Kinesis writes "Used for media streaming and live-streaming data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Stream Analytics writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly, but could be priced better". Amazon Kinesis is most compared with Amazon MSK, Confluent, Apache Flink, Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Spark Streaming, whereas Azure Stream Analytics is most compared with Databricks, Amazon MSK, Apache Flink, Apache Spark and Apache Spark Streaming. See our Amazon Kinesis vs. Azure Stream Analytics report.
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