We performed a comparison between Amazon MQ and Apache Kafka based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Message Queue (MQ) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Amazon MQ is a very scalable solution."
"The initial Amazon MQ setup is very easy both when you do it on your own or use the self-managed instance."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its managed service aspect. It's simple to implement and use. It requires minimal effort to maintain business operations."
"Kafka allows you to handle huge amounts of data and classify it into different categories. If you have huge amounts of data, Kafka is a very good solution for data classification."
"It eases our current data flow and framework."
"Robust and delivers messages quickly."
"The use of Kafka's logging mechanism has been extremely beneficial for us, as it allows us to sequence messages, track pointers, and manage memory without having to create multiple copies."
"I like Kafka's flexibility, stability, reliability, and robustness."
"Kafka is an open-source tool that's easy to use in our country, and the command line interface is powerful."
"The stability is very nice. We currently manage 50 million events daily."
"The most valuable feature of Apache Kafka is its versatility. It can solve many use cases or can be a part of many use cases. Its fundamental value of it is in the real-time processing capability."
"Amazon MQ is a good solution for small and medium-sized enterprises. It's open-source software, which means it's cheaper than its competitors."
"The product should improve its monitoring capabilities. It needs to improve the pricing also."
"Depending on your use cases, Amazon MQ can be cheap or expensive."
"There is a lot of information available for the solution and it can be overwhelming to sort through."
"While the solution scales well and easily, you need to understand your future needs and prep for the peaks."
"It's not possible to substitute IBM MQ with Apache Kafka because the JMS part is not very stable."
"The ability to connect the producers and consumers must be improved."
"I suggest using cloud services because the solution is expensive if you are using it on-premises."
"Kafka 2.0 has been released for over a month, and I wanted to try out the new features. However, the configuration is a little bit complicated: Kafka Broker, Kafka Manager, ZooKeeper Servers, etc."
"Observability could be improved."
"Kafka does not provide control over the message queue, so we do not know whether we are experiencing lost or duplicate messages."
Amazon MQ is ranked 9th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 3 reviews while Apache Kafka is ranked 1st in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 76 reviews. Amazon MQ is rated 8.4, while Apache Kafka is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon MQ writes "Provides you with a URL where you can either send or retrieve messages". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apache Kafka writes "Great access to multiple devices, with stability, at an affordable price". Amazon MQ is most compared with Amazon SQS, VMware RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Red Hat AMQ and EMQX, whereas Apache Kafka is most compared with IBM MQ, Amazon SQS, Red Hat AMQ, Anypoint MQ and IBM Event Streams. See our Amazon MQ vs. Apache Kafka report.
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