We performed a comparison between Amazon Kinesis 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."Everything is hosted and simple."
"From my experience, one of the most valuable features is the ability to track silent events on endpoints. Previously, these events might have gone unnoticed, but now we can access them within the product range. For example, if a customer reports that their calls are not reaching the portal files, we can use this feature to troubleshoot and optimize the system."
"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."
"Setting Amazon Kinesis up is quick and easy; it only takes a few minutes to configure the necessary settings and start using it."
"The solution's technical support is flawless."
"The scalability is pretty good."
"The solution has the capacity to store the data anywhere from one day to a week and provides limitless storage for us."
"I have worked in companies that build tools in-house. They face scaling challenges."
"Apache Spark Streaming is versatile. You can use it for competitive intelligence, gathering data from competitors, or for internal tasks like monitoring workflows."
"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 has features like checkpointing and Streaming API that are useful."
"As an open-source solution, using it is basically free."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"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."
"It's the fastest solution on the market with low latency data on data transformations."
"Amazon Kinesis should improve its limits."
"Lacks first in, first out queuing."
"Kinesis can be expensive, especially when dealing with large volumes of data."
"In general, the pain point for us was that once the data gets into Kinesis there is no way for us to understand what's happening because Kinesis divides everything into shards. So if we wanted to understand what's happening with a particular shard, whether it is published or not, we could not. Even with the logs, if we want to have some kind of logging it is in the shard."
"Amazon Kinesis involved a more complex setup and configuration than Azure Event Hub."
"There are certain shortcomings in the machine learning capacity offered by the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The services which are described in the documentation could use some visual presentation because for someone who is new to the solution the documentation is not easy to follow or beginner friendly and can leave a person feeling helpless."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We would like to have the ability to do arbitrary stateful functions in Python."
"The solution itself could be easier to use."
"The cost and load-related optimizations are areas where the tool lacks and needs improvement."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"It was resource-intensive, even for small-scale applications."
Amazon Kinesis is ranked 2nd in Streaming Analytics with 21 reviews while Apache Spark Streaming is ranked 8th in Streaming Analytics with 8 reviews. Amazon Kinesis is rated 8.0, while Apache Spark Streaming is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Kinesis writes "Used for media streaming and live-streaming data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apache Spark Streaming writes "Easy integration, beneficial auto-scaling, and good open-sourced support community". Amazon Kinesis is most compared with Azure Stream Analytics, Apache Flink, Amazon MSK, Confluent and Databricks, whereas Apache Spark Streaming is most compared with Azure Stream Analytics, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Confluent, Apache Pulsar and Starburst Enterprise. See our Amazon Kinesis vs. Apache Spark Streaming report.
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