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 most valuable feature is that it has a pretty robust way of capturing things."
"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."
"One of the best features of Amazon Kinesis is the multi-partition."
"Great auto-scaling, auto-sharing, and auto-correction features."
"Setting Amazon Kinesis up is quick and easy; it only takes a few minutes to configure the necessary settings and start using it."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Kinesis is real-time data streaming."
"Kinesis is a fully managed program streaming application. You can manage any infrastructure. It is also scalable. Kinesis can handle any amount of data streaming and process data from hundreds, thousands of processes in every source with very low latency."
"Amazon Kinesis has improved our ROI."
"Technical support is pretty helpful."
"It's a product that can scale."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"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."
"Real-time analytics is the most valuable feature of this solution. I can send the collected data to Power BI in real time."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to create a query using SQ."
"We use Azure Stream Analytics for simulation and internal activities."
"The solution has a lot of functionality that can be pushed out to companies."
"In order to do a successful setup, the person handling the implementation needs to know the solution very well. You can't just come into it blind and with little to no experience."
"Could include features that make it easier to scale."
"I think the default settings are far too low."
"The price is not much cheaper. So, there is room for improvement in the pricing."
"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."
"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."
"Kinesis can be expensive, especially when dealing with large volumes of data."
"One thing that would be nice would be a policy for increasing the number of Kinesis streams because that's the one thing that's constant. You can change it in real time, but somebody has to change it, or you have to set some kind of meter. So, auto-scaling of adding and removing streams would be nice."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"The solution's interface could be simpler to understand for non-technical people."
"The solution offers a free trial, however, it is too short."
"The initial setup is complex."
"If something goes wrong, it's very hard to investigate what caused it and why."
"The only challenge was that the streaming analytics area in Azure Stream Analytics could not meet our company's expectations, making it a component where improvements are required."
"I would like to have a contact individual at Microsoft."
"We would like to have centralized platform altogether since we have different kind of options for data ingestion. Sometimes it gets difficult to manage different platforms."
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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