"MSK has a private network that's an out-of-box feature."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"The solution is better than average and some of the valuable features include efficiency and stability."
"As an open-source solution, using it is basically free."
"It should be more flexible, integration-wise."
"There could be an improvement in the area of the user configuration section, it should be less developer-focused and more business user-focused."
"We would like to have the ability to do arbitrary stateful functions in Python."
"The solution itself could be easier to use."
Amazon MSK is ranked 8th in Streaming Analytics with 1 review while Apache Spark Streaming is ranked 10th in Streaming Analytics with 3 reviews. Amazon MSK is rated 8.0, while Apache Spark Streaming is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon MSK writes "Allows you to build and run applications easily". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apache Spark Streaming writes "Mature and stable with good scalability". Amazon MSK is most compared with Confluent, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics, Google Cloud Dataflow and Aiven for Apache Kafka, whereas Apache Spark Streaming is most compared with Amazon Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics, Apache Flink, Spring Cloud Data Flow and PubSub+ Event Broker.
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