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

Amazon Kinesis Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS. It can capture and automatically load streaming data into Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools and dashboards you’re already using today.

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.