Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers
by dkersten on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @08:38AM
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From my reading of it (and my use of Kafka in the past, as an input to Storm), Kafka is a message queuing system, where Kinesis is a message processing system. That is, Kafka is more similar to SQS or RabbitMQ and Kinesis is more similar to Storm or S4.
Of course, I haven't used kinesis and have only glanced at the docs, so I could be wrong - it could very well be that Kinesis is the glue between data input and data processor rather than the data processor itself, in which case, yeah, it looks a lot like Kafka.
To understand how you would use it, read some of the kafa docs: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction