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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) vs. Apache Kafka

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    Amazon SQS

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Web Services (AWS) Provides the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), a managed message queue service which supports the safe decoupling and distribution of different components in a cloud infrastructure and cloud applications.

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    Apache Kafka

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AApache Kafka is an open-source stream processing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala and Java. The Kafka event streaming platform is used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.N/A
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    Amazon SQSApache Kafka
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    All Data Transfer In
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    Standard Queue
    $0.00000004
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    FIFO Queue
    $0.00000005
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    Amazon SQSApache Kafka
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Amazon SQSApache Kafka
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon SQS
    To be blunt: Amazon SQS was the simplest to implement given our requirements. Other services in this space work just as well, and SQS does not have any benefits outside of being the easiest to implement when using an otherwise fully AWS stack. AWS itself even has other …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon SQS
    Amazon SQS stacks up with the best of them as most of their products do. The only issue comparatively that I’ve had with this service, in particular, is the silently failing messages and then allocation of time to dedicate to debugging when the issue of why a message got stuck …
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    Apache
    Chose Apache Kafka
    It has very minimal overhead and doesn't have a steep learning curve.
    Incentivized
    Chose Apache Kafka
    - The biggest advantage of using Apache Kafka is that it is cloud agnostic - It handles super high volume, is fault tolerance, high performance
    Incentivized
    Chose Apache Kafka
    I used other messaging/queue solutions that are a lot more basic than Confluent Kafka, as well as another solution that is no longer in the market called Xively, which was bought and "buried" by Google. In comparison, these solutions offer way fewer functionalities and respond …
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    Amazon SQSApache Kafka
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    8.0
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    10.0
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    8.4
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