We performed a comparison between Amazon MSK and Cloudera DataFlow 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."The most valuable feature of Amazon MSK is the integration."
"MSK has a private network that's an out-of-box feature."
"It offers good stability."
"Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems."
"Overall, it is very cost-effective based on the workflow."
"It is a stable product."
"The initial setup was not so difficult"
"This solution is very scalable and robust."
"DataFlow's performance is okay."
"It would be really helpful if Amazon MSK could provide a single installation that covers all the servers."
"Amazon MSK could improve on the features they offer. They are still lagging behind Confluence."
"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."
"It should be more flexible, integration-wise."
"The configuration seems a little complex and the documentation on the product is not available."
"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."
"It is not easy to use the R language. Though I don't know if it's possible, I believe it is possible, but it is not the best language for machine learning."
"It's an outdated legacy product that doesn't meet the needs of modern data analysts and scientists."
"Although their workflow is pretty neat, it still requires a lot of transformation coding; especially when it comes to Python and other demanding programming languages."
Amazon MSK is ranked 6th in Streaming Analytics with 6 reviews while Cloudera DataFlow is ranked 13th in Streaming Analytics with 3 reviews. Amazon MSK is rated 7.2, while Cloudera DataFlow is rated 6.6. The top reviewer of Amazon MSK writes "Efficient real-time transaction tracking but time-consuming installation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudera DataFlow writes "A scalable and robust platform for analyzing data". Amazon MSK is most compared with Confluent, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics, Google Cloud Dataflow and Instaclustr Managed Apache Kafka, whereas Cloudera DataFlow is most compared with Databricks, Confluent, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Informatica Data Engineering Streaming and Hortonworks Data Platform. See our Amazon MSK vs. Cloudera DataFlow report.
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