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Amazon MSK
Read 6 Amazon MSK reviews
7,763 views|6,108 comparisons
83% willing to recommend
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IBM Streams
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644 views|569 comparisons
100% willing to recommend
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Featured Review
Gustavo-Barbosa Dos Santos
Has a simple setup process, but the technical support services need improvement
Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems.
Ahmed_Emad
A solution for data pipelines but has connector limitations
Quick deployments
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  • "The price of Amazon MSK is less than some competitor solutions, such as Confluence."
  • "The platform has better pricing than one of its competitors."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Amazon MSK?
    Top Answer:Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems.
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    What needs improvement with Amazon MSK?
    Top Answer: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. They… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Amazon MSK?
    Top Answer:We use the software to facilitate building integrations between systems.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Streams?
    Top Answer:The solution’s licenses pricing is different from one region to another region. I rate the solution’s pricing a seven out of ten.
    What needs improvement with IBM Streams?
    Top Answer:the limited number of connectors. This shall be overcome with work-arounds or eventually buying additional connectors to complete the solution.
    What is your primary use case for IBM Streams?
    Top Answer:We use the solution for data pipeline by modernizing the traditional ETL jobs done through advanced streaming. Another use case is building the g2g streaming platform, which facilitates data exchange… more »
    Ranking
    6th
    out of 38 in Streaming Analytics
    Views
    7,763
    Comparisons
    6,108
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    427
    Rating
    7.0
    15th
    out of 38 in Streaming Analytics
    Views
    644
    Comparisons
    569
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    447
    Rating
    7.0
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
    IBM InfoSphere Streams
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    Overview

    Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Amazon MSK provides the control-plane operations, such as those for creating, updating, and deleting clusters.

    IBM Streams is an advanced analytic platform that allows user-developed applications to quickly ingest, analyze and correlate information as it arrives from thousands of data stream sources. The solution can handle very high data throughput rates, up to millions of events or messages per second. Streams helps you analyze data in motion, simplify development of streaming applications, and extend the value of existing systems.
    Sample Customers
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    Globo TV, All England Lawn Tennis Club, CenterPoint Energy, Consolidated Communications Holdings, Darwin Ecosystem, Emory University Hospital, ICICI Securities, Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT), Living Roads, Mobileum, Optibus, Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP), University of Alberta, University of Montana, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Wimbledon 2015
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Retailer5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company5%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise43%
    Large Enterprise43%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Amazon MSK is ranked 6th in Streaming Analytics with 6 reviews while IBM Streams is ranked 15th in Streaming Analytics with 5 reviews. Amazon MSK is rated 7.2, while IBM Streams is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon MSK writes "Efficient real-time transaction tracking but time-consuming installation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Streams writes "A solution for data pipelines but has connector limitations". Amazon MSK is most compared with Confluent, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics, Google Cloud Dataflow and Databricks, whereas IBM Streams is most compared with Confluent, Apache Spark, Azure Stream Analytics, Apache Flink and Google Cloud Dataflow.

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