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We performed a comparison between Amazon MSK and Spring Cloud Data Flow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Streaming Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Amazon MSK vs. Spring Cloud Data Flow Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"MSK has a private network that's an out-of-box feature.""It is a stable product.""It offers good stability.""Amazon MSK has good integration because our team has been undergoing significant changes. Coupling it with MSK within AWS is helpful. We don't have to set up additionals or monitor external environments. This""The most valuable feature of Amazon MSK is the integration.""Overall, it is very cost-effective based on the workflow.""Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems."

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"The product is very user-friendly.""There are a lot of options in Spring Cloud. It's flexible in terms of how we can use it. It's a full infrastructure.""The most valuable features of Spring Cloud Data Flow are the simple programming model, integration, dependency Injection, and ability to do any injection. Additionally, auto-configuration is another important feature because we don't have to configure the database and or set up the boilerplate in the database in every project. The composability is good, we can create small workloads and compose them in any way we like.""The most valuable feature is real-time streaming."

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Cons
"It should be more flexible, integration-wise.""The configuration seems a little complex and the documentation on the product is not available.""Amazon MSK could improve on the features they offer. They are still lagging behind Confluence.""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.""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.""It would be really helpful if Amazon MSK could provide a single installation that covers all the servers."

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"Spring Cloud Data Flow could improve the user interface. We can drag and drop in the application for the configuration and settings, and deploy it right from the UI, without having to run a CI/CD pipeline. However, that does not work with Kubernetes, it only works when we are working with jars as the Spring Cloud Data Flow applications.""Some of the features, like the monitoring tools, are not very mature and are still evolving.""The configurations could be better. Some configurations are a little bit time-consuming in terms of trying to understand using the Spring Cloud documentation.""On the tool's online discussion forums, you may get stuck with an issue, making it an area where improvements are required."

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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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  • "This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."
  • "If you want support from Spring Cloud Data Flow there is a fee. The Spring Framework is open-source and this is a free solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems.
    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 »
    Top Answer:We use the software to facilitate building integrations between systems.
    Top Answer:On the tool's online discussion forums, you may get stuck with an issue, making it an area where improvements are required. The online discussion forum for the tool should include possible questions… more »
    Top Answer:I used the solution for a payment platform we integrated with our organization. Our company had to use it since we had to integrate it with different payment platforms.
    Top Answer:Spring Cloud Data Flow is a useful product if I consider how there are different providers with whom my company had to deal, and most of them offer cloud-based products. I can't explain any crucial… more »
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
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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.

    Spring Cloud Data Flow is a toolkit for building data integration and real-time data processing pipelines.
    Pipelines consist of Spring Boot apps, built using the Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Cloud Task microservice frameworks. This makes Spring Cloud Data Flow suitable for a range of data processing use cases, from import/export to event streaming and predictive analytics. Use Spring Cloud Data Flow to connect your Enterprise to the Internet of Anything—mobile devices, sensors, wearables, automobiles, and more.

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    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Retailer5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm29%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Retailer6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise38%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise78%
    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon MSK vs. Spring Cloud Data Flow
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon MSK vs. Spring Cloud Data Flow and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Amazon MSK is ranked 6th in Streaming Analytics with 7 reviews while Spring Cloud Data Flow is ranked 9th in Streaming Analytics with 5 reviews. Amazon MSK is rated 7.2, while Spring Cloud Data Flow is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon MSK writes "Streamlines our processes, and we don't need to configure any VPCs; it's automatic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spring Cloud Data Flow writes "Provides ease of integration with other cloud platforms ". Amazon MSK is most compared with Confluent, Azure Stream Analytics, Amazon Kinesis, Google Cloud Dataflow and IBM Streams, whereas Spring Cloud Data Flow is most compared with Apache Flink, Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Spark Streaming, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Azure Data Factory. See our Amazon MSK vs. Spring Cloud Data Flow report.

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