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Amazon MSK vs Striim 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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
4.1
Amazon MSK saves time and money, promotes innovation with flexible pricing, yet some users find costs hard to justify.
Sentiment score
7.2
Striim offers efficient database migration, saving time, reducing costs, and minimizing incidents with near real-time data replication.
The incidents have disappeared completely since I have been using Striim.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Since it is now one to two hours, I would say it has saved employee hours and time.
Data Engineer
Time savings are crucial since it saves considerable time, which positively impacts the return on investment.
SQL Server Senior DBA at a media company with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
Amazon MSK support varies; some praise its effectiveness, while others note average service and seek external assistance.
Sentiment score
7.2
Striim's responsive, expert support is praised, though some desire a customer portal; its user-friendly design minimizes external reliance.
They can manage most of our queries, and for what they cannot manage, they guide us through the process of finding out.
Co-Founder & CTO at Photios AI
Amazon's support is excellent.
CTO at Atulya Abhinav Tech Private Limited
Since it originated from Oracle GoldenGate, the customer service, support, or whatever help is required is the best.
Assistant Manager Presales at Euler Research
They are all knowledgeable about what they do.
Data Engineer
When you contact them, they give you a response straight away and help you identify the issue and fix it.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.0
Amazon MSK is viewed as scalable, manageable, appealing to various environments, but may require manual scaling adjustments.
Sentiment score
6.4
Striim is scalable and cost-effective for moderate data, excelling in hybrid clouds, though challenging with very high volumes.
The functionality for scaling comes out of the box and is very effective.
CTO at Atulya Abhinav Tech Private Limited
As a B2B enterprise client, our clientele consists of large ticket clients but low amounts of users.
Co-Founder & CTO at Photios AI
Our licensing was based on the number of cores, so even if we have a high number of events on any given day, our license cost would not go high.
Data Engineer
When it comes to scaling with Striim as workloads increase, it has been quite helpful and could adapt easily, saving considerable time in delegation and follow-up because I only need to roll back scripts to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
SQL Server Senior DBA at a media company with 11-50 employees
I would describe the scalability of Striim as very good, as it adapts well.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Amazon MSK is stable with high ratings; minor issues are unrelated to MSK, maintaining success rates of 91% under load.
Sentiment score
7.8
Striim is generally stable, with minor issues during CDC, resolved synchronization problems, and rare instances of slowdowns.
It doesn't require any maintenance on my end yet, as I haven't had any issues.
Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
That problem has been completely resolved with Striim.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Striim was very stable.
Data Engineer
Striim has proven stable in my experience, as I have not encountered any downtime or disruptions.
SQL Server Senior DBA at a media company with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon MSK struggles with integration, configuration complexities, high costs, and operational challenges compared to services like Kinesis.
Striim needs to improve CDC handling, documentation, pricing, user-friendliness, and enhance features like schema mapping and AI integration.
The increase in cloud costs by 50% to 60% does not justify the savings.
CTO at Atulya Abhinav Tech Private Limited
The only issue with Amazon MSK that we are facing is the configurations.
Co-Founder & CTO at Photios AI
I had to remove and drop all the clusters and recreate them again, which is complicated in a production environment.
Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
I believe if Striim could use some part of AWS secrets or its own secret mechanism to store the password, that would really save a lot of time so that I don't have to keep updating the password whenever there is any change.
Data Engineer
They could improve the documentation by showing how to configure with different platforms.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Striim can be improved by providing tools such as short videos or step-by-step manuals to clearly demonstrate its capabilities and help users learn quickly.
SQL Server Senior DBA at a media company with 11-50 employees
 

Setup Cost

Amazon MSK is competitively priced with variable costs, appealing to enterprise users but potentially expensive for some.
Striim's pricing can be high due to variable integration costs, but success often justifies expenses despite some challenges.
Once we started using Kafka, our cloud costs rose by 50% to 60%.
CTO at Atulya Abhinav Tech Private Limited
We use Kafka M5 Large instance, and depending on the instances, that is the cost we have, along with storage cost and data transfer costs.
Co-Founder & CTO at Photios AI
Licensing was a bit more expensive because Striim has to read from Oracle GoldenGate trail files and also integrate them.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is costly.
Senior Analyst at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
My experience with the pricing, implementation cost, and licensing of Striim is that it is somewhat expensive.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Amazon MSK integrates AWS services, offering cost-effective, automated scaling, ease of use, real-time analytics, encryption, and event sourcing.
Striim offers real-time data streaming, smooth replication, and supports multiple sources, enhancing data migration with no downtime.
The scalability and usability are quite remarkable.
CTO at Atulya Abhinav Tech Private Limited
The best features of Amazon MSK are the real-time analytics that are excellent.
Co-Founder & CTO at Photios AI
Amazon MSK is basically Kafka in the cloud, and when you need to create a cluster of Kafka brokers, Amazon MSK helps with that by automatically creating all the brokers according to the configuration you provide.
Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Striim is capable of absorbing a large number of transactions, and the difference between the two databases is always less than a second, which demonstrates efficiency.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
There were significant improvements because once we enabled change data capture, the database was not going down at all.
Data Engineer
It reduces manual intervention because it automatically syncs the data from the warehouse.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon MSK
Ranking in Streaming Analytics
13th
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Striim
Ranking in Streaming Analytics
18th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (27th), Cloud Data Integration (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Streaming Analytics category, the mindshare of Amazon MSK is 3.8%, down from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Striim is 1.9%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Streaming Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon MSK3.8%
Striim1.9%
Other94.3%
Streaming Analytics
 

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.
Neelam Joshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real-time replication has transformed data loads but needs clearer logs and better documentation
Striim offers strong capabilities for real-time database replication. Its core strength is low latency, log-based change data capture, which continuously moves the data without putting heavy load on the source systems. It works especially well in Oracle environments and supports more than 150 sources and targets, including Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric, which is hot in the market right now. It handles the initial load and the ongoing CDC in one platform so we do not have to stitch together Kafka or similar processes ourselves. It offers high availability clustering with failovers and can run self-hosted or fully managed on cloud services. The user interface is pretty good and self-explanatory, so there is no issue if a user lands in the application; they do not have to think more. It is self-explanatory, with all the navigation panes clear. However, the only thing is the searchability; if a user has to search which table belongs to which CDC application connection set up on Striim, it is quite extensive and not fruitful from a user interface point of view. Performance-wise, it is quite good; the queues are long, but as I mentioned earlier, the logs are not that self-explanatory that one can understand what exactly is going on behind the scenes.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Retailer
18%
Construction Company
12%
Healthcare Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise5
 

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Striim?
It's very fair. We had a private cloud, and it's not based on the number of events. It was based on the number of cores and CPU cores.
What needs improvement with Striim?
Striim can be improved by providing tools such as short videos or step-by-step manuals to clearly demonstrate its capabilities and help users learn quickly. Regarding needed improvements, it is imp...
What is your primary use case for Striim?
My main use cases for Striim day-to-day include maintenance, database performance, ensuring data integrity, managing transactional log overload, and simplifying data replication. Zero-downtime clou...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
Striim Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Sky, UPS, MACY'S, EMAAR, HSBC
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