We performed a comparison between Amazon MSK and Apache Pulsar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Databricks, Microsoft and others in Streaming Analytics."MSK has a private network that's an out-of-box feature."
"Overall, it is very cost-effective based on the workflow."
"Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems."
"It offers good stability."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon MSK is the integration."
"It is a stable product."
"The solution operates as a classic message broker but also as a streaming platform."
"The configuration seems a little complex and the documentation on the product is not available."
"It does not autoscale. Because if you do keep it manually when you add a note to the cluster and then you register it, then it is scalable, but the fact that you have to go and do it, I think, makes it, again, a bit of some operational overhead when managing the cluster."
"It should be more flexible, integration-wise."
"Amazon MSK could improve on the features they offer. They are still lagging behind Confluence."
"It would be really helpful if Amazon MSK could provide a single installation that covers all the servers."
"The product's schema support needs enhancement. It will help enhance integration with many kinds of languages of programming languages, especially for environments using languages like .NET."
"Documentation is poor because much of it is in Chinese with no English translation."
Amazon MSK is ranked 6th in Streaming Analytics with 6 reviews while Apache Pulsar is ranked 12th in Streaming Analytics with 1 review. Amazon MSK is rated 7.2, while Apache Pulsar is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon MSK writes "Efficient real-time transaction tracking but time-consuming installation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apache Pulsar writes "The solution can mimic other APIs without changing a line of code". Amazon MSK is most compared with Confluent, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics, Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Spark Streaming, whereas Apache Pulsar is most compared with Apache Flink, Apache Spark Streaming, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics and Google Cloud Dataflow.
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