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Amazon Kinesis vs Striim comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.0
Organizations benefit financially from Amazon Kinesis through improved data processing, cost savings, and seamless AWS service integration.
Sentiment score
7.9
Striim enhances efficiency by reducing data sync time and incidents, saving organizations significant time and operational costs.
With Lambda, there is no need for data transfer charges, which is beneficial for less frequent workloads.
AWS Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The incidents have disappeared completely since I have been using Striim.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Striim's continuous pipeline safely processes millions of daily transactions without data loss; my organization had millions of transactions every day and even in real-time, so it was quite good.
Mainframe lead at Infosys
Since it is now one to two hours, I would say it has saved employee hours and time.
Data Engineer
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
Amazon Kinesis support varies, with response quality influenced by user-AWS relationships and complexity of the issues faced.
Sentiment score
6.8
Striim's customer service is praised for prompt, expert assistance, particularly in z/OS architecture and DB2 logs troubleshooting.
We receive prompt support from AWS solution architects or TAMs.
AWS Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
They are all knowledgeable about what they do.
Data Engineer
When you contact them, they give you a response straight away and help you identify the issue and fix it.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The customer support has been excellent, and their engineers actually understand z/OS architecture and DB2 logs.
Mainframe lead at Infosys
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Amazon Kinesis offers robust scalability with sharding and auto-scaling, ideal for high data throughput, despite some cost considerations.
Sentiment score
7.8
Striim performs well with moderate data volumes, is adaptable, and recommended for hybrid clouds, but enterprise-level scalability is untested.
Amazon Kinesis provides auto-scaling with streams that handle large volumes well.
AWS Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I would rate the scalability of Amazon Kinesis as a nine.
Director of Software Development at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Our licensing was based on the number of cores, so even if we have a high number of events on any given day, our license cost would not go high.
Data Engineer
I would describe the scalability of Striim as very good, as it adapts well.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Striim can handle the data volumes effectively, but it can struggle a little bit if the data volume is too high.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Amazon Kinesis is reliable with minor issues, praised for consistent performance and effective fault-tolerance features.
Sentiment score
7.9
Users generally find Striim stable with occasional slowdowns and initial synchronization issues, but no major crashes or reliability problems.
I would rate the stability of Amazon Kinesis as high, giving it a 10.
Director of Software Development at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
That problem has been completely resolved with Striim.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Striim was very stable.
Data Engineer
In my experience, Striim is mostly stable.
Mainframe lead at Infosys
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon Kinesis users seek enhancements in data aggregation, integration, automation, retention, cost reduction, compatibility, machine learning, and documentation.
Striim needs better performance, especially in batch processing, documentation, user setup, and pricing to satisfy users' needs.
There is no lack of functions in Amazon Kinesis. Functionality-wise, we feel it's complete.
Director of Software Development at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Amazon Kinesis could improve its pricing to be more competitive, especially for large volumes.
AWS Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I believe if Striim could use some part of AWS secrets or its own secret mechanism to store the password, that would really save a lot of time so that I don't have to keep updating the password whenever there is any change.
Data Engineer
They could improve the documentation by showing how to configure with different platforms.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
I think Striim could be improved with better pricing and enhanced documentation.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Amazon Kinesis offers competitive pricing, though costs rise with scaling, large data volumes, and Kinesis Analytics can be expensive.
Enterprise users find Striim's pricing based on cores and CPU usage costly, but fair for private cloud setups.
Amazon Kinesis and Lambda pricing is competitive, but we noticed that scaling and large volumes could potentially increase costs significantly.
AWS Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Licensing was a bit more expensive because Striim has to read from Oracle GoldenGate trail files and also integrate them.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
My experience with the pricing, implementation cost, and licensing of Striim is that it is somewhat expensive.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It's very fair.
Data Engineer
 

Valuable Features

Amazon Kinesis provides easy, scalable streaming with AWS integration, supporting analytics and monitoring without complex infrastructure management.
Striim enhances business analytics with real-time data streaming, ease of use, and efficient synchronization, reducing load and overhead.
Lambda's scalability, seamless integration with other AWS services, and support for multiple programming languages are very beneficial.
AWS Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Amazon Kinesis integrates easily with the AWS environment.
Director of Software Development at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Striim is capable of absorbing a large number of transactions, and the difference between the two databases is always less than a second, which demonstrates efficiency.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
There were significant improvements because once we enabled change data capture, the database was not going down at all.
Data Engineer
It reduces manual intervention because it automatically syncs the data from the warehouse.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Kinesis
Ranking in Streaming Analytics
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Striim
Ranking in Streaming Analytics
20th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (44th), Cloud Data Integration (23rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Streaming Analytics category, the mindshare of Amazon Kinesis is 3.8%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Striim is 1.8%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Streaming Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Kinesis3.8%
Striim1.8%
Other94.4%
Streaming Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1480695 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Software Development at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Has enabled real-time processing of critical event streams with seamless cloud integration
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 us. The cost is a primary hindrance. That's why we are not using it widely. For our critical pipeline we are using it, but after that we are putting it in an S3 bucket. Other pipelines directly put the events in an S3 bucket and then process from there. There is no lack of functions in Amazon Kinesis. Functionality-wise, we feel it's complete. The cost aspect is what we are really concerned about.
RV
Data Engineer
Real-time data capture has accelerated releases and now improves trust in our data warehouse
The checkpoints would help me to figure out where the problem was if there's any lag, but I had to do a lot of manual work to figure out where the lag is. Striim would not intuitively tell me the culprit table or database behind the lag. I believe that is an improvement Striim could definitely do. Passwords were an issue. Property variables were not supported for passwords, meaning I had to make sure the password is manually populated. I believe if Striim could read from AWS secrets or its own secret mechanism to store the password, that would really save a lot of time so that I don't have to keep updating the password whenever there is any change. The user experience of triggering alerts if there's any lag which Striim identified, which is outside normal processing time, could intrinsically be done by Striim. I believe that was lacking. I would wait for Striim to tell me, instead of me going and validating whether Striim is lagging behind. If Striim could itself tell me that it's seeing a lot more volume than expected, that would really make me give it a higher number.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Retailer
16%
Construction Company
13%
Healthcare Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise10
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Striim?
It's very fair. We had a private cloud, and it's not based on the number of events. It was based on the number of cores and CPU cores.
What needs improvement with Striim?
The checkpoints would help me to figure out where the problem was if there's any lag, but I had to do a lot of manual work to figure out where the lag is. Striim would not intuitively tell me the c...
What is your primary use case for Striim?
We were using batch data from an Oracle database, which was causing the Oracle database to slow down. We enabled change data capture and used Striim to read data from Oracle databases and ingest in...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Amazon AWS Kinesis, AWS Kinesis, Kinesis
Striim Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Zillow, Netflix, Sonos
Sky, UPS, MACY'S, EMAAR, HSBC
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Kinesis vs. Striim and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
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