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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams vs. Aiven for Apache Kafka

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon Kinesis Data Streams

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Aiven for Apache Kafka

by Aiven

Overall rating4.34.3
Review count90245
Ease of use8.68.8
Ease of setup8.88.7
Quality of support8.88.7
Meets requirements9.28.6
NPS49.38271647.698745
Small Business26.7%30.6%
Mid-Market36.7%46.6%
Enterprise36.7%22.8%
Total page views137379
Total LLM citations6703,112

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable, durable, and low-cost streaming data service. Kinesis Data Streams can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources, such as website clickstreams, database event streams, financial transactions, social media feeds, IT logs, and location-tracking events. The collected data is available in milliseconds to allow real-time analytics use cases, such as real-time dashboards, real-time anomaly detection, dynamic pricing.

Pros

  • Real-Time Processing
  • Streaming
  • Real-time Data
  • Real-time Streaming
  • Real-time Processing
  • Time Management

Aiven for Apache Kafka

Aiven for Apache Kafka® is a fully managed distributed event streaming service, that can be deployed in the cloud of your choice. Aiven for Apache Kafka is ideal for event-driven applications, near-real-time data transfer and data pipelines, streaming analytics, and any use case that requires moving huge amounts of real-time data between applications and systems. With Aiven for Apache Kafka you can set up fully managed Kafka clusters in less than 10 minutes — using the Aiven web console or programmatically via Aiven’s API, CLI, Terraform provider or Kubernetes operator.

Pros

  • Setup Ease
  • Ease of Use
  • Scaling
  • Management Ease
  • Reliability
  • Customer Support