Kafka vs AWS Kinesis

		Apache Kafka	Amazon Kinesis
	Developed/Hosted By	LinkedIn	Amazon
	Software	Open-Source	Proprietary
	SDK Support	AWS SDK supports Android, Java, Go, .NET	Kafka SDK supports Java
	Configuration & Features	More control on configuration and better performance.	Number of days/shards can only be configured
	Data Stored In	Kafka Partition	Kinesis Shard
	Reliability	Replication factor can be configured	Kinesis writes synchronously to 3 different machines/data-centers
	Performance	Kafka wins	Kinesis writes each message synchronously to 3 different machines
	Configuration Store	Apache Zookeeper	Amazon DynamoDB
	Setup	Weeks	Couple Of hours
	Data Retention	Configurable	7 days at max
	Log Compaction	Supported	Only can store logs for 7 days
	Processing Events	More than 1000s of events/sec	Atmost 1000s of events/sec
	Checkpointing	Offsets stored in special topic	DynamoDB
	Ordering	Partion level	Shard level
	Human Costs	Require human support for installing and managing their clusters, and also accounting for requirements such as high availability, durability, and recovery	Kinesis is just about pay and use
	Producer Throughput	Kafka Wins	Kinesis is bit slower than Kafka
	Incident Risk/Maintainence	More In Kafka	Amazon takes care
	Ordered sequence of immutable data records	Kafka Topic	Kinesis Stream
	Each record has a unique number called	Offset number	Sequence number
	Concepts	Kafka Streams	Kinesis Analytics