Amazon MSK vs Apache Pulsar comparison

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We performed a comparison between Amazon MSK and Apache Pulsar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Overall, it is very cost-effective based on the workflow.""Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems.""It is a stable product.""The most valuable feature of Amazon MSK is the integration.""MSK has a private network that's an out-of-box feature.""It offers good stability."

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"The solution operates as a classic message broker but also as a streaming platform."

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Cons
"The product's schema support needs enhancement. It will help enhance integration with many kinds of languages of programming languages, especially for environments using languages like .NET.""It does not autoscale. Because if you do keep it manually when you add a note to the cluster and then you register it, then it is scalable, but the fact that you have to go and do it, I think, makes it, again, a bit of some operational overhead when managing the cluster.""Amazon MSK could improve on the features they offer. They are still lagging behind Confluence.""It would be really helpful if Amazon MSK could provide a single installation that covers all the servers.""The configuration seems a little complex and the documentation on the product is not available.""It should be more flexible, integration-wise."

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"Documentation is poor because much of it is in Chinese with no English translation."

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  • "The price of Amazon MSK is less than some competitor solutions, such as Confluence."
  • "The platform has better pricing than one of its competitors."
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    Top Answer:Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems.
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    Top Answer:We use the software to facilitate building integrations between systems.
    Top Answer:The solution operates as a classic message broker but also as a streaming platform.
    Top Answer:The solution is open-source freeware.
    Top Answer:Documentation is poor because much of it is in Chinese with no English translation.
    Ranking
    6th
    out of 38 in Streaming Analytics
    Views
    7,940
    Comparisons
    6,237
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    427
    Rating
    7.0
    12th
    out of 38 in Streaming Analytics
    Views
    1,593
    Comparisons
    1,089
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    470
    Rating
    8.0
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
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    Overview

    Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Amazon MSK provides the control-plane operations, such as those for creating, updating, and deleting clusters.

    Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed messaging and streaming platform originally created at Yahoo! and now a top-level Apache Software Foundation project

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    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Retailer5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    April 2024
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    Amazon MSK is ranked 6th in Streaming Analytics with 6 reviews while Apache Pulsar is ranked 12th in Streaming Analytics with 1 review. Amazon MSK is rated 7.2, while Apache Pulsar is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon MSK writes "Efficient real-time transaction tracking but time-consuming installation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apache Pulsar writes "The solution can mimic other APIs without changing a line of code". Amazon MSK is most compared with Confluent, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics, Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Spark Streaming, whereas Apache Pulsar is most compared with Apache Flink, Apache Spark Streaming, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics and Google Cloud Dataflow.

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