We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2, Apache NiFi, and Azure Stream Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Zadara and others in Compute Service."Configuration can be changed at any time and it's very scalable."
"The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good. However, the stability can depend on what service I am using."
"We don't have to worry about scalability issues or maintenance or security. It's all taken care of."
"I believe that cloud solutions are better than physical servers."
"The ability to bring up servers and then do the computation and deposit means we don't have to maintain a data center. Everything is virtual and the security is also taken care of. It helps us to achieve compliance. Being a small startup with the security features that AWS provides helps us with compliance."
"The product is very mature and organized."
"EC2 is flexible when we need to increase its resources (memory, boosting, and storage) based on our usage. That is the power of EC2."
"My favorite feature of this solution is the flexibility of instance types, which allows for the cost to be tailored to the usage amount and type."
"It's an automated flow, where you can build a flow from source to destination, then do the transformation in between."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The initial setup is very easy. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one point is difficult, and ten points are easy."
"We can integrate the tool with other applications easily."
"The most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation."
"The most valuable feature has been the range of clients and the range of connectors that we could use."
"Visually, this is a good product."
"The user interface is good and makes it easy to design very popular workflows."
"The integrations for this solution are easy to use and there is flexibility in integrating the tool with Azure Stream Analytics."
"The solution has a lot of functionality that can be pushed out to companies."
"The most valuable features of Azure Stream Analytics are the ease of provisioning and the interface is not terribly complex."
"It's a product that can scale."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to create a query using SQ."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"Technical support is pretty helpful."
"It provides the capability to streamline multiple output components."
"The support could be more responsive."
"My impression is that the scalability of this product could be improved. My opinion is that, for example, the Lambda solution is much more scalable than EC2."
"I would like to see improvement in the information available up-front for users around tailoring the package to their actual requirements. At present it can take time to work with the on demand instance until you are used to what features are right for the user."
"Amazon EC2 could improve by reducing the price."
"Built-in and/or integration with other services to proactively identify potential failures before they occur."
"Its price can be reduced."
"Amazon EC2 could improve the stability."
"I think the pricing needs to be adjusted and better security."
"The overall stability of this solution could be improved. In a future release, we would like to have access to more features that could be used in a parallel way. This would provide more freedom with processing."
"I think the UI interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in integration with SSO. For example, NiFi does not have any integration with SSO. And if I want to give some kind of rollback access control across the organization. That is not possible."
"The use case templates could be more precise to typical business needs."
"There should be a better way to integrate a development environment with local tools."
"There are some claims that NiFi is cloud-native but we have tested it, and it's not."
"We run many jobs, and there are already large tables. When we do not control NiFi on time, all reports fail for the day. So it's pretty slow to control, and it has to be improved."
"More features must be added to the product."
"One area that could use improvement is the handling of data validation. Currently, there is a review process, but sometimes the validation fails even before the job is executed. This results in wasted time as we have to rerun the job to identify the failure."
"Its features for event imports and architecture could be enhanced."
"It is not complex, but it requires some development skills. When the data is sent from Azure Stream Analytics to Power BI, I don't have the access to modify the data. I can't customize or edit the data or do some queries. All queries need to be done in the Azure Stream Analytics."
"Sometimes when we connect Power BI, there is a delay or it throws up some errors, so we're not sure."
"Early in the process, we had some issues with stability."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"The solution's interface could be simpler to understand for non-technical people."
"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."
