We performed a comparison between Amazon Kinesis and Azure Stream Analytics based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon Kinesis ultimately wins out in this comparison. According to reviews, Amazon Kinesis appears to be a more robust and high performing solution.
"Amazon Kinesis's main purpose is to provide near real-time data streaming at a consistent 2Mbps rate, which is really impressive."
"I find almost all features valuable, especially the timing and fast pace movement."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a pretty robust way of capturing things."
"The feature that I've found most valuable is the replay. That is one of the most valuable in our business. We are business-to-business so replay was an important feature - being able to replay for 24 hours. That's an important feature."
"The solution's technical support is flawless."
"Great auto-scaling, auto-sharing, and auto-correction features."
"The solution works well in rather sizable environments."
"Amazon Kinesis also provides us with plenty of flexibility."
"I like the IoT part. We have mostly used Azure Stream Analytics services for it"
"The life cycle, report management and crash management features are great."
"Technical support is pretty helpful."
"We find the query editor feature of this solution extremely valuable for our business."
"We use Azure Stream Analytics for simulation and internal activities."
"The most valuable features of Azure Stream Analytics are the ease of provisioning and the interface is not terribly complex."
"It provides the capability to streamline multiple output components."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to create a query using SQ."
"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."
"The price is not much cheaper. So, there is room for improvement in the pricing."
"Amazon Kinesis involved a more complex setup and configuration than Azure Event Hub."
"In order to do a successful setup, the person handling the implementation needs to know the solution very well. You can't just come into it blind and with little to no experience."
"If there were better documentation on optimal sharding strategies then it would be helpful."
"For me, especially with video streams, there's sometimes a kind of delay when the data has to be pumped to other services. This delay could be improved in Kinesis, or especially the Kinesis Video Streams, which is being used for different use cases for Amazon Connect. With that improvement, a lot of other use cases of Amazon Connect integrating with third-party analytic tools would be easier."
"Could include features that make it easier to scale."
"We were charged high costs for the solution’s enhanced fan-out feature."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"The collection and analysis of historical data could be better."
"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."
"The solution doesn't handle large data packets very efficiently, which could be improved upon."
"Its features for event imports and architecture could be enhanced."
"If something goes wrong, it's very hard to investigate what caused it and why."
"The UI should be a little bit better from a usability perspective."
"The initial setup is complex."
Amazon Kinesis is ranked 1st in Streaming Analytics with 24 reviews while Azure Stream Analytics is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 23 reviews. Amazon Kinesis is rated 8.0, while Azure Stream Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Kinesis writes "Used for media streaming and live-streaming data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Stream Analytics writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly, but could be priced better". Amazon Kinesis is most compared with Amazon MSK, Confluent, Apache Flink, Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Spark Streaming, whereas Azure Stream Analytics is most compared with Databricks, Amazon MSK, Apache Flink, Apache Spark and Apache Spark Streaming. See our Amazon Kinesis vs. Azure Stream Analytics report.
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