G2 Vendor Directory

PubNub vs. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

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

MetricPubNub

by PubNub

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.44.2
Review count2525
Ease of use8.98.7
Ease of setup8.98.8
Quality of support9.38.6
Meets requirements9.18.8
NPS60.86956538.095238
Small Business52.0%20.0%
Mid-Market20.0%44.0%
Enterprise28.0%36.0%
Total page views19766
Total LLM citations731188

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

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