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."Overall, it is very cost-effective based on the workflow."
"MSK has a private network that's an out-of-box feature."
"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"
"Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems."
"It is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon MSK is the integration."
"The solution operates as a classic message broker but also as a streaming platform."
"It should be more flexible, integration-wise."
"The configuration seems a little complex and the documentation on the product is not available."
"It would be really helpful if Amazon MSK could provide a single installation that covers all the servers."
"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."
"Amazon MSK could improve on the features they offer. They are still lagging behind Confluence."
"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 7 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 "Streamlines our processes, and we don't need to configure any VPCs; it's automatic". 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, Azure Stream Analytics, Amazon Kinesis, Google Cloud Dataflow and Oracle Stream Analytics, 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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