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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams vs. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

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

MetricAmazon Kinesis Data Streams

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.34.2
Review count9025
Ease of use8.68.7
Ease of setup8.88.8
Quality of support8.88.6
Meets requirements9.28.8
NPS49.38271638.095238
Small Business26.7%20.0%
Mid-Market36.7%44.0%
Enterprise36.7%36.0%
Total page views13766
Total LLM citations670188

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

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to reliably load real-time streams into data lakes, warehouses, and analytics services. Kinesis Data Firehose can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools and dashboards you’re already using today. It is a fully managed service that automatically scales to match the throughput of your data and requires no ongoing administration.

Pros