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Altair Panopticon vs Amazon Kinesis comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Altair Panopticon
Ranking in Streaming Analytics
32nd
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (37th)
Amazon Kinesis
Ranking in Streaming Analytics
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Streaming Analytics category, the mindshare of Altair Panopticon is 1.3%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon Kinesis is 3.9%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Streaming Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Kinesis3.9%
Altair Panopticon1.3%
Other94.8%
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AWS Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real-time streaming and seamless integration enhance workloads with room for competitive pricing improvements
Amazon Kinesis is easy to get started with, provides good documentation, and has a multilang daemon interface that makes it programming-language agnostic. The throughput is convenient for processing volumes out of the box and does not require complex configurations. It also provides auto-scaling with different partition keys into various shards. Lambda's scalability, seamless integration with other AWS services, and support for multiple programming languages are very beneficial.
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
University
7%
 

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Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise10
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Kinesis?
Amazon Kinesis and Lambda pricing is competitive, but we noticed that scaling and large volumes could potentially increase costs significantly.
What needs improvement with Amazon Kinesis?
We are contemplating moving away from Amazon Kinesis primarily because of the cost. It is very useful, but if we write our own analytics and data processing pipeline, it would be much cheaper for u...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Kinesis?
We use Amazon Kinesis for stream processing. We get events from on-premise devices to the cloud. We get many device events and we have to process these events that are coming from the devices. To p...
 

Also Known As

Datawatch Panopticon
Amazon AWS Kinesis, AWS Kinesis, Kinesis
 

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