Amazon Kinesis vs Amazon SQS vs Kafka

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Pros of Amazon Kinesis
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    Scalable
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    Easy to use, reliable
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    Low cost
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    Simple
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    Doesn't need to maintain it
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    It is Serverless
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    Has a max message size (currently 256K)
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    Triggers Lambda
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    Easy to configure with Terraform
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    Delayed delivery upto 15 mins only
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    Delayed delivery upto 12 hours
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    JMS compliant
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    Support for retry and dead letter queue
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    High-throughput
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    Distributed
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    Scalable
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    High-Performance
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    Durable
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    Publish-Subscribe
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    Simple-to-use
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    Open source
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    Written in Scala and java. Runs on JVM
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    Message broker + Streaming system
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    KSQL
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    Avro schema integration
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    Robust
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    Suport Multiple clients
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    Extremely good parallelism constructs
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    Partioned, replayable log
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    Simple publisher / multi-subscriber model
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    Fun
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    Flexible

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Cons of Amazon Kinesis
Cons of Amazon SQS
Cons of Kafka
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    Cost
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    Has a max message size (currently 256K)
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    Proprietary
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    Difficult to configure
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    Has a maximum 15 minutes of delayed messages only
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    Non-Java clients are second-class citizens
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    Needs Zookeeper
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    Operational difficulties
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    Terrible Packaging

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What is Amazon Kinesis?

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.

What is Amazon SQS?

Transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available. With SQS, you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available messaging cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.

What is Kafka?

Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.

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What are some alternatives to Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, and Kafka?
Apache Spark
Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning.
Amazon Kinesis Firehose
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.
Firehose.io
Firehose is both a Rack application and JavaScript library that makes building real-time web applications possible.
Apache Storm
Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing. Storm has many use cases: realtime analytics, online machine learning, continuous computation, distributed RPC, ETL, and more. Storm is fast: a benchmark clocked it at over a million tuples processed per second per node. It is scalable, fault-tolerant, guarantees your data will be processed, and is easy to set up and operate.
Confluent
It is a data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka: a full-scale streaming platform, capable of not only publish-and-subscribe, but also the storage and processing of data within the stream
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