Amazon Kinesis vs. Fivetran

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Kinesis
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Kinesis is a streaming analytics suite for data intake from video or other disparate sources and applying analytics for machine learning (ML) and business intelligence.
$0.01
per GB data ingested / consumed
Fivetran
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Fivetran replicates applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance data warehouse, after a five minute setup. The vendor says their standardized cloud pipelines are fully managed and zero-maintenance. The vendor says Fivetran began with a realization: For modern companies using cloud-based software and storage, traditional ETL tools badly underperformed, and the complicated configurations they required often led to project failures. To streamline and accelerate…
$0.01
Pricing
Amazon KinesisFivetran
Editions & Modules
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
$0.00850
per GB data ingested / consumed
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
$0.04
per hour per stream
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
$0.11
per hour
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
tiered pricing starting at $0.029
per month first 500 TB ingested
Starter
$0.01
per credit
Standard
$0.01
per credit
Enterprise
$0.01
per credit
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon KinesisFivetran
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Amazon KinesisFivetran
Features
Amazon KinesisFivetran
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Kinesis
8.3
2 Ratings
4% above category average
Fivetran
-
Ratings
Real-Time Data Analysis10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Low Latency9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out6.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enrichment5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Kinesis
-
Ratings
Fivetran
10.0
8 Ratings
20% above category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Kinesis
-
Ratings
Fivetran
7.1
7 Ratings
12% below category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings7.27 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings6.95 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Kinesis
-
Ratings
Fivetran
6.1
8 Ratings
24% below category average
Data model creation00 Ratings2.06 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings4.04 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings7.75 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Kinesis
-
Ratings
Fivetran
8.5
7 Ratings
7% above category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 5.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon KinesisFivetran
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
8.3
(9 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon KinesisFivetran
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Amazon Kinesis is a great replacement for Kafka and it works better whenever the components of the solution are AWS based. Best if extended fan-out is not required, but still price-performance ratio is very good for simplifying maintenance.
I would go with a different option if the systems to be connected are legacy, for instance in the case of traditional messaging clients.
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Fivetran
Fivetran's business model justifies the use-case where we require data from a single source basically a lot of data but if the requirement is not on the heavier side, Fivetran comes to costly operation when compared to its peers. Otherwise, I'll recommend Fivetran for stability and update and seamless service provider.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Processing huge loads of data
  • Integrating well with IoT Platform on Amazon
  • Integration with overall AWS Ecosystem
  • Scalability
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Fivetran
  • Easily connects to source data using delivered connectors
  • Transforms data into standard models and schemas
  • Has very good documentation to help quickly setup connectors
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Not a queue system, so little visibility into "backlog" if there is any
  • Confusing terminology to make sure events aren't missed
  • Sometimes didn't seem to trigger Lambda functions, or dropped events when a lot came in
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Fivetran
  • Very difficult to get connectors enhanced if a specific needed object is not supported by them
  • Depending on the edition needed and the data volumes, can get quite expensive
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Usability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Fivetran
Very easy and intuitive to setup and maintain as there usually are not that many options. Very well documented (e.g. how to setup each connector, how the schema looks like, any specific features of this connector etc.). Also the operation is intuitive, e.g. you have status pages, log pages, configuration pages etc. for each connector.
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Performance
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Fivetran
It runs pretty well and gets our data from point A to point cluster quickly enough. Honestly, it's not something I think about unless it breaks and that's pretty rare.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
The documentation was confusing and lacked examples. The streams suddenly stopped working with no explanation and there was no information in the logs. All these were more difficult when dealing with enhanced fan-out. In fact, we were about to abort the usage of Kinesis due to a misunderstanding with enhanced fan-out.
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Fivetran
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
The main benefit was around set up - incredibly easy to just start using Kinesis. Kinesis is a real-time data processing platform, while Kafka is more of a message queue system. If you only need a message queue from a limited source, Kafka may do the job. More complex use cases, with low latency, higher volume of data, real time decisions and integration with multiple sources and destination at a decent price, Kinesis is better.
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Fivetran
We never seriously considered using anything else. Our data engineers had used Fivetran extensively in previous roles so when it came time to make a decision, there wasn't much of a process. They gladly signed the contract with Fivetran pretty quickly.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Caused us to need to re-engineer some basic re-try logic
  • Caused us to drop some content without knowing it
  • Made monitoring much more difficult
  • We eventually switched back to SQS because Kinesis is not the same as a Queue system
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Fivetran
  • It has been very positive in serving BI team with new source requests
  • It has been OK at scaling to match as data volumes as source data size grows
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