Amazon MSK vs IBM Streams comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are both solutions in the Streaming Analytics category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.4, while IBM is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 9.2% mindshare in SA, compared to IBM’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Amazon MSK

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90% willing to recommend

IBM Streams

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437 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon MSK and IBM Streams based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Streaming Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon MSK

Ranking in Streaming Analytics

6th

Average Rating

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Streams

Ranking in Streaming Analytics

18th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Streaming Analytics category, the mindshare of Amazon MSK is 9.2%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Streams is 0.8%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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FNU AKSHANSH

Senior Data Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Streamlines our processes, and we don't need to configure any VPCs; it's automatic

We don't have many use cases involving ingesting large amounts of data and scaling up and down. We have a clear understanding of our data volume, which remains relatively constant throughout the week. While we're aware of other features Amazon MSK offers, we feel confident in our current setup. If our requirements change significantly in the future, we'll reassess our needs and consider adopting Amazon MSK.

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Ahmed_Emad

Territory Sales Leader at Sumerge

A solution for data pipelines but has connector limitations

We have used Kafka for seven years. IBM streams gives you many OOTB features that can boost the time-to-market, especially when it comes to reporting and monitoring for example. Confluent is recognized as one of the leaders in this space and the main reason for this is related to the complete vision of the platform also the large number of connectors. This gives the edge and competitive advatnage.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

20%

Educational Organization

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon MSK?

Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems.

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What needs improvement with Amazon MSK?

From AWS, I would consider more MSK schema validation is needed. It is easy to integrate if you have an application, but on-topic integration is more complex. You can do it with EvenBridge very eas...

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What is your primary use case for Amazon MSK?

I have used Confluent Cloud and Amazon MSK in my company. We are not using it for analytics and it is more for CDC processes, so we change the capture processes. It is used to extract data from a d...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Streams?

The solution’s licenses pricing is different from one region to another region. I rate the solution’s pricing a seven out of ten.

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What needs improvement with IBM Streams?

the limited number of connectors. This shall be overcome with work-arounds or eventually buying additional connectors to complete the solution.

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What is your primary use case for IBM Streams?

We use the solution for data pipeline by modernizing the traditional ETL jobs done through advanced streaming. Another use case is building the g2g streaming platform, which facilitates data exchan...

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Comparisons

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Compared 29% of the time

Confluent vs Amazon MSK

Compared 24% of the time

Amazon Kinesis vs Amazon MSK

Compared 16% of the time

Google Cloud Dataflow vs Amazon MSK

Compared 13% of the time

Apache Spark Streaming vs Amazon MSK

Compared 1% of the time

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Confluent vs IBM Streams

Compared 47% of the time

Apache Flink vs IBM Streams

Compared 21% of the time

Apache NiFi vs IBM Streams

Compared 14% of the time

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Also Known As

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

IBM InfoSphere Streams

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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.

IBM Streams is an advanced analytic platform that allows user-developed applications to quickly ingest, analyze and correlate information as it arrives from thousands of data stream sources. The solution can handle very high data throughput rates, up to millions of events or messages per second. Streams helps you analyze data in motion, simplify development of streaming applications, and extend the value of existing systems.

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

Globo TV, All England Lawn Tennis Club, CenterPoint Energy, Consolidated Communications Holdings, Darwin Ecosystem, Emory University Hospital, ICICI Securities, Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT), Living Roads, Mobileum, Optibus, Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP), University of Alberta, University of Montana, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Wimbledon 2015

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