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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams vs. Redpanda Data Platform

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

MetricAmazon Kinesis Data Streams

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Redpanda Data Platform

by Redpanda Data

Overall rating4.34.6
Review count9066
Ease of use8.69.0
Ease of setup8.89.0
Quality of support8.89.4
Meets requirements9.28.9
NPS49.38271672.727273
Small Business26.7%21.2%
Mid-Market36.7%63.6%
Enterprise36.7%15.2%
Total page views137718
Total LLM citations6700

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

Redpanda Data Platform

The Redpanda Data Platform is the streaming platform that simplifies building real-time AI applications. It’s a simple, fast, and secure solution that lets modern engineering teams ship streaming, analytics, and agentic AI apps without the complexity or cost of traditional Kafka-based systems. It comes with 300+ built-in connectors, Kafka-API compatibility and industry-leading data and AI governance with a Bring-Your- Own-Cloud (BYOC) deployment option. Global leaders including Activision Blizzard, Cisco, Moody's, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and 2 of the top 5 banks in the U.S.

Pros

  • Customer Support
  • Ease of Use
  • Performance
  • Speed
  • Features
  • Setup Ease