We performed a comparison between Amazon MSK and Apache Spark Streaming 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."MSK has a private network that's an out-of-box feature."
"It is a stable product."
"It offers good stability."
"Overall, it is very cost-effective based on the workflow."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon MSK is the integration."
"As an open-source solution, using it is basically free."
"The solution is better than average and some of the valuable features include efficiency and stability."
"Apache Spark Streaming was straightforward in terms of maintenance. It was actively developed, and migrating from an older to a newer version was quite simple."
"Apache Spark Streaming's most valuable feature is near real-time analytics. The developers can build APIs easily for a code-steaming pipeline. The solutions have an ecosystem of integration with other stock services."
"The platform’s most valuable feature for processing real-time data is its ability to handle continuous data streams."
"Apache Spark Streaming is versatile. You can use it for competitive intelligence, gathering data from competitors, or for internal tasks like monitoring workflows."
"Apache Spark Streaming has features like checkpointing and Streaming API that are useful."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"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."
"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."
"It should be more flexible, integration-wise."
"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."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"It was resource-intensive, even for small-scale applications."
"The service structure of Apache Spark Streaming can improve. There are a lot of issues with memory management and latency. There is no real-time analytics. We recommend it for the use cases where there is a five-second latency, but not for a millisecond, an IOT-based, or the detection anomaly-based. Flink as a service is much better."
"The cost and load-related optimizations are areas where the tool lacks and needs improvement."
"The solution itself could be easier to use."
"There could be an improvement in the area of the user configuration section, it should be less developer-focused and more business user-focused."
"In terms of improvement, the UI could be better."
"Integrating event-level streaming capabilities could be beneficial."
Amazon MSK is ranked 6th in Streaming Analytics with 7 reviews while Apache Spark Streaming is ranked 8th in Streaming Analytics with 9 reviews. Amazon MSK is rated 7.2, while Apache Spark Streaming 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 Spark Streaming writes "Easy integration, beneficial auto-scaling, and good open-sourced support community". Amazon MSK is most compared with Confluent, Azure Stream Analytics, Amazon Kinesis, Google Cloud Dataflow and Instaclustr Managed Apache Kafka, whereas Apache Spark Streaming is most compared with Amazon Kinesis, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Azure Stream Analytics, Apache Pulsar and Aiven for Apache Kafka. See our Amazon MSK vs. Apache Spark Streaming report.
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