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Confluent vs. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

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

MetricConfluent

by IBM

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.44.2
Review count11725
Ease of use8.68.7
Ease of setup8.38.8
Quality of support8.58.6
Meets requirements8.98.8
NPS59.29203538.095238
Small Business34.2%20.0%
Mid-Market29.9%44.0%
Enterprise35.9%36.0%
Total page views75766
Total LLM citations7,445188

Confluent

Today’s customers expect every digital experience to be immediate, connected, and personalized. That takes more than data at rest - it takes trusted data in motion. Confluent is the complete Data Streaming Platform for keeping data in motion from the moment business change occurs through processing, governance, and serving. Built by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, Confluent connects applications, services, and systems; processes streams in real time with Apache Flink®; and serves trusted, always-current data wherever it is needed across cloud, hybrid, and self-managed environments.

Pros

  • Streaming
  • Scaling
  • Data Integration
  • Easy Integrations
  • Features
  • User Interface

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