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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams vs. IBM Event Streams

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

MetricAmazon Kinesis Data Streams

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

IBM Event Streams

by IBM

Overall rating4.34.3
Review count9013
Ease of use8.69.6
Ease of setup8.89.5
Quality of support8.88.6
Meets requirements9.28.6
NPS49.38271658.333333
Small Business26.7%23.1%
Mid-Market36.7%23.1%
Enterprise36.7%53.8%
Total page views13778
Total LLM citations670169

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

IBM Event Streams

IBM Event Streams is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, event streaming solution. Powered by Apache Kafka, it provides access to enterprise data through event streams, enabling businesses to unlock insights from historical data, and identify and take action on situations in real time and at scale.

Pros

  • User Interface
  • Ease of Use