We performed a comparison between Akamai and Hive Streaming based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Akamai and others in CDN."As of now, the best thing about Akamai is WAF, and though CDN is a good feature, it comes in second place when compared to WAF. I am very impressed with the WAF offered by Akamai."
"The most valuable feature of Akamai is its ease of use and simple integration. Additionally, the solution has new aspects added to it regularly."
"With 300 servers deployed worldwide, it's highly scalable and is the best web application firewall on the market."
"Akamai is leveraged by many top-level businesses, ensuring reliability and support in case of outages or issues."
"The solution's technical support is very prompt and good."
"We can see how much traffic can be downloaded on the portal."
"Akamai's scalability is good."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it has been quite helpful in our company, especially when it comes to applications needing updates frequently."
"The optimization of the network is a valuable feature."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN."
"Akamai should improve its integrations."
"While it's great for solutions with high scalability, like global e-commerce, it's not really built for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It has too many options and can be complex for SMBs to utilize."
"One area for improvement with Akamai could be pricing."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"I'd like to see improvements in log files and data visualizations within the interface."
"It would be better if we could be notified about specific attacks."
"Hive should let customers know about the carbon usage."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Hive Streaming is ranked 11th in CDN with 1 review. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Hive Streaming is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An easy to setup product offering multiple useful functionalities under a single package". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hive Streaming writes "A stable platform that maximizes the business value of video streaming". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Amazon CloudFront and Fastly, whereas Hive Streaming is most compared with Kollective.
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