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Amazon MSK vs Instaclustr comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon MSK
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Streaming Analytics (7th)
Instaclustr
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Amazon MSK and Instaclustr aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Amazon MSK is designed for Streaming Analytics and holds a mindshare of 4.1%, down 6.9% compared to last year.
Instaclustr, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Master Data Management (MDM), holds 0.5% mindshare.
Streaming Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon MSK4.1%
Apache Flink8.2%
Databricks7.9%
Other79.8%
Streaming Analytics
Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Instaclustr0.5%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)18.7%
Semarchy xDM13.6%
Other67.2%
Cloud Master Data Management (MDM)
 

Featured Reviews

SYED SHAAZ - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder & CTO at Photios AI
Improved data streaming and integration challenges prompt search for alternatives
The integration capabilities of Amazon MSK are not very flexible. If you have your own self-managed Kafka, that helps significantly because you can set up configurations. We are considering self-managed Kafka since our product is only one year old. The Kafka integrations are fine, but the configurations are an issue. The only issue with Amazon MSK that we are facing is the configurations. There are preset configurations and limited configurations that we can set for our unique use case. The product could improve by allowing us to set different configurations. I would also like to see Amazon MSK improve in the area of connectors. We are considering Confluent Cloud because they have many more connectors. They have KSQL DB and governance features. It is slightly costlier, but Confluent offers more flexibility with their connectors.
reviewer2808210 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automated cassandra backups and restores have saved time but documentation and tooling still improve
Instaclustr was genuinely useful for my organization and made my job easy. The features Instaclustr offers were straightforward to use in my experience. The documentation was well-written, though there were some points missing from it. As an end user, I found it somewhat difficult to understand certain parts of the documentation. I saved considerable time and was able to automate the entire process using the ISOP utility provided by Instaclustr. I actually reduced errors as well. Instaclustr provided excellent support for my organization whenever needed. The software tool made my task of performing backup and restore in my environment simple. Time and resources were saved throughout the entire process using Instaclustr. The support from Instaclustr team helped me reduce time significantly. Instaclustr will save time and resources, as it has many utilities developed that automate many work processes in an organization.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"What I appreciate most about Amazon MSK is that it doesn't require extensive concern about the configurations; it starts checking how the brokers are functioning, and automatically, Amazon MSK tries to resolve all the problems."
"The scalability and usability are quite remarkable."
"Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems."
"The solution's technical support was helpful."
"My advice to others is this solution is straightforward and the integration is flawless."
"It provides installations, scaling, and other functionalities straight out of the box."
"Amazon MSK's separation of concerns and ease of creating and deploying new features are highly valuable. It just requires to assign them to the topic, and then anyone who needs to consume these messages can do so directly from Amazon MSK. This separation of concerns makes it very convenient, especially for new feature development, as developers can easily access the messages they need without having to deal with complex server communications or protocol setups."
"It offers good stability."
"Instaclustr was genuinely useful for my organization and made my job easy."
 

Cons

"In my opinion, there are areas in Amazon MSK that could be improved, particularly in terms of configuration. Initially setting it up and getting it connected was quite challenging. The naming conventions for policies were updated by AWS, and some were undocumented, leading to confusion with outdated materials. It took us weeks of trial and error before discovering new methods through hidden tutorials and official documentation."
"The product's schema support needs enhancement. It will help enhance integration with many kinds of languages of programming languages, especially for environments using languages like .NET."
"Amazon MSK could improve on the features they offer. They are still lagging behind Confluence."
"The only issue with Amazon MSK that we are facing is the configurations. There are preset configurations and limited configurations that we can set for our unique use case."
"The configuration seems a little complex and the documentation on the product is not available."
"MSK should be easier to integrate with other solutions. It should be more flexible, integration-wise."
"One of the reasons why we prefer Kafka is because the support is a little bit difficult to manage with Amazon MSK."
"The cost of using Amazon MSK is high, which is a significant disadvantage, as the increase in cloud costs by 50% to 60% does not justify the savings."
"During the development or implementation of Instaclustr, I found a bug or error in the ISOP utility."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"When you create a complete enterprise-driven architecture that is deployable on an enterprise scale, I would say that the prices of Amazon MSK and Confluent Platform become comparable."
"The price of Amazon MSK is less than some competitor solutions, such as Confluence."
"The platform has better pricing than one of its competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise5
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon MSK?
The integration capabilities of Amazon MSK are not very flexible. If you have your own self-managed Kafka, that helps significantly because you can set up configurations. We are considering self-ma...
What is your primary use case for Amazon MSK?
We are recently working with Amazon MSK at Fortis, where we have multiple dashboards in our revenue intelligence platform. We are streaming data from different apps into those dashboards. The data ...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon MSK?
We are working with Amazon MSK product, Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka. The main benefits I have seen from using Amazon MSK is that as a B2B enterprise client, we have many SLAs to fulfill. Tra...
What needs improvement with Instaclustr?
During the development or implementation of Instaclustr, I found a bug or error in the ISOP utility. Sanity checks and sanity testing should be performed regularly during the development of the uti...
What is your primary use case for Instaclustr?
Instaclustr was primarily used for backup and restore of Cassandra data. I backed up Cassandra data using Instaclustr in two types: snapshot and commit log backup. The backups were performed from l...
What advice do you have for others considering Instaclustr?
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Instaclustr overall a six.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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