Compare Amazon Kinesis Firehose to these popular alternatives based on real-world usage and developer feedback.

Amazon Kinesis can collect and process hundreds of gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources, allowing you to easily write applications that process information in real-time, from sources such as web site click-streams, marketing and financial information, manufacturing instrumentation and social media, and operational logs and metering data.

Google Cloud Dataflow is a unified programming model and a managed service for developing and executing a wide range of data processing patterns including ETL, batch computation, and continuous computation. Cloud Dataflow frees you from operational tasks like resource management and performance optimization.

It is a high-performance data processing framework with capabilities to handle streaming and batch data. It can leverage high-performance clusters as well we cloud services to efficiently process data.