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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams vs. PubNub

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

MetricAmazon Kinesis Data Streams

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

PubNub

by PubNub

Overall rating4.34.4
Review count9025
Ease of use8.68.9
Ease of setup8.88.9
Quality of support8.89.3
Meets requirements9.29.1
NPS49.38271660.869565
Small Business26.7%52.0%
Mid-Market36.7%20.0%
Enterprise36.7%28.0%
Total page views137197
Total LLM citations670731

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

PubNub

PubNub is a real-time platform for developers who build in-app chat and live features. The Chat SDK includes typing indicators, presence, message history, read receipts, reactions, and threads. PubNub supports unlimited subscribers per channel. PubNub assigns each message a server-side timetoken. Messages on a channel form one ordered sequence. End-to-end delivery latency is sub-100ms. DAZN uses PubNub to power chat and Watch Party experiences for 10 million users. PubNub charges by Monthly Active Users or transactions, depending on the plan.

Pros

  • Customer Support
  • Chat Functionality
  • Ease of Use
  • Data Security
  • Real-time Streaming
  • API Integration