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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams vs. Hazelcast Platform

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

MetricAmazon Kinesis Data Streams

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Hazelcast Platform

by Hazelcast

Overall rating4.34.3
Review count9013
Ease of use8.68.7
Ease of setup8.88.3
Quality of support8.88.9
Meets requirements9.28.9
NPS49.38271641.666667
Small Business26.7%53.8%
Mid-Market36.7%23.1%
Enterprise36.7%23.1%
Total page views13783
Total LLM citations670138

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

Hazelcast Platform

Hazelcast Platform is the Live Data Platform that delivers data at the speed of relevance, providing the in‑memory foundation for applications that act on data the instant it's created—ensuring businesses never miss a moment of opportunity. By converging distributed caching, compute, stream processing, and real‑time AI into one low‑latency runtime, Hazelcast delivers sub‑millisecond performance, linear scalability, and enterprise resilience. Global 2000 firms trust Hazelcast to simplify architectures, reduce costs, and power mission‑critical, time‑sensitive applications.

Pros

  • Flexibility
  • Ease of Use
  • Performance Efficiency
  • Performance
  • Simple
  • Fast Processing