Amazon Data Firehose vs. Apache Beam vs. IBM Streams vs. Python Comparison Chart

Easily capture, transform, and load streaming data. Create a delivery stream, select your destination, and start streaming real-time data with just a few clicks. Automatically provision and scale compute, memory, and network resources without ongoing administration. Transform raw streaming data into formats like Apache Parquet, and dynamically partition streaming data without building your own processing pipelines. Amazon Data Firehose provides the easiest way to acquire, transform, and deliver data streams within seconds to data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics services. To use Amazon Data Firehose, you set up a stream with a source, destination, and required transformations. Amazon Data Firehose continuously processes the stream, automatically scales based on the amount of data available, and delivers it within seconds. Select the source for your data stream or write data using the Firehose Direct PUT API.

IBM Streams evaluates a broad range of streaming data — unstructured text, video, audio, geospatial and sensor — helping organizations spot opportunities and risks and make decisions in real-time. Make sense of your data, turning fast-moving volumes and varieties into insight with IBM® Streams. Streams evaluate a broad range of streaming data — unstructured text, video, audio, geospatial and sensor — helping organizations spot opportunities and risks as they happen. Combine Streams with other IBM Cloud Pak® for Data capabilities, built on an open, extensible architecture. Help enable data scientists to collaboratively build models to apply to stream flows, plus, analyze massive amounts of data in real-time. Acting upon your data and deriving true value is easier than ever.