We performed a comparison between Amazon MQ and Apache Kafka based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Message Queue (MQ) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool's most valuable feature is its managed service aspect. It's simple to implement and use. It requires minimal effort to maintain business operations."
"Amazon MQ is a very scalable solution."
"The initial Amazon MQ setup is very easy both when you do it on your own or use the self-managed instance."
"Kafka's most valuable feature is its user-friendliness."
"The processing power of Apache Kafka is good when you have requirements for high throughput and a large number of consumers."
"It is a stable solution...A lot of my experience indicates that Apache Kafka is scalable."
"valuable features relate to microservices architecture and working on KStream and KSQL DB as a microservices event bus."
"As a software developer, I have found Apache Kafka's support to be the most valuable...The solution is easy to integrate with any of our systems."
"The high availability is valuable. It is robust, and we can rely on it for a huge amount of data."
"It eases our current data flow and framework."
"The solution is very easy to set up."
"Depending on your use cases, Amazon MQ can be cheap or expensive."
"The product should improve its monitoring capabilities. It needs to improve the pricing also."
"Amazon MQ is a good solution for small and medium-sized enterprises. It's open-source software, which means it's cheaper than its competitors."
"The repository isn't working very well. It's not user friendly."
"I suggest using cloud services because the solution is expensive if you are using it on-premises."
"More Windows support, I believe, is one area where it can improve."
"The UI is based on command line. It would be helpful if they could come up with a simpler user interface."
"We struggled a bit with the built-in data transformations because it was a challenge to get them up and running the way we wanted."
"Apache Kafka could improve data loss and compatibility with Spark."
"Apache Kafka has performance issues that cause it to lag."
"Observability could be improved."
Amazon MQ is ranked 9th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 3 reviews while Apache Kafka is ranked 1st in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 76 reviews. Amazon MQ is rated 8.4, while Apache Kafka is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon MQ writes "Provides you with a URL where you can either send or retrieve messages". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apache Kafka writes "Great access to multiple devices, with stability, at an affordable price". Amazon MQ is most compared with Amazon SQS, VMware RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Red Hat AMQ and EMQX, whereas Apache Kafka is most compared with IBM MQ, Amazon SQS, Red Hat AMQ, Anypoint MQ and IBM Event Streams. See our Amazon MQ vs. Apache Kafka report.
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