Aiven for Apache Kafka vs. DataStax vs. Google Cloud Dataflow vs. Python Comparison Chart

Apache Kafka as a fully managed service, with zero vendor lock-in and a full set of capabilities to build your streaming pipeline. Set up fully managed Kafka in less than 10 minutes — directly from our web console or programmatically via our API, CLI, Terraform provider or Kubernetes operator. Easily connect it to your existing tech stack with over 30 connectors, and feel confident in your setup with logs and metrics available out of the box via the service integrations. A fully managed distributed data streaming platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice. Ideal for event-driven applications, near-real-time data transfer and pipelines, stream analytics, and any other case where you need to move a lot of data between applications — and quickly. With Aiven’s hosted and managed-for-you Apache Kafka, you can set up clusters, deploy new nodes, migrate clouds, and upgrade existing versions — in a single mouse click — and monitor them through a simple dashboard.

Unified stream and batch data processing that's serverless, fast, and cost-effective. Fully managed data processing service. Automated provisioning and management of processing resources. Horizontal autoscaling of worker resources to maximize resource utilization. OSS community-driven innovation with Apache Beam SDK. Reliable and consistent exactly-once processing. Streaming data analytics with speed. Dataflow enables fast, simplified streaming data pipeline development with lower data latency. Allow teams to focus on programming instead of managing server clusters as Dataflow’s serverless approach removes operational overhead from data engineering workloads. Allow teams to focus on programming instead of managing server clusters as Dataflow’s serverless approach removes operational overhead from data engineering workloads. Dataflow automates provisioning and management of processing resources to minimize latency and maximize utilization.