Amazon MSK vs. Apache Kafka vs. Google Cloud Dataflow vs. Python Comparison Chart

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform for building real-time streaming data pipelines and applications. With Amazon MSK, you can use native Apache Kafka APIs to populate data lakes, stream changes to and from databases, and power machine learning and analytics applications. Apache Kafka clusters are challenging to setup, scale, and manage in production. When you run Apache Kafka on your own, you need to provision servers, configure Apache Kafka manually, replace servers when they fail, orchestrate server patches and upgrades, architect the cluster for high availability, ensure data is durably stored and secured, setup monitoring and alarms, and carefully plan scaling events to support load changes.

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.