Compare Aiven for Apache Kafka vs. Eclipse Streamsheets

Experience Apache Kafka offered as a fully managed service that avoids vendor lock-in while providing comprehensive features for constructing your streaming pipeline. You can establish a fully managed Kafka instance in under 10 minutes using our intuitive web console or programmatically through our API, CLI, Terraform provider, or Kubernetes operator. Seamlessly integrate it with your current technology infrastructure using more than 30 available connectors, and rest assured with comprehensive logs and metrics that come standard through our service integrations. This fully managed distributed data streaming platform can be deployed in any cloud environment of your choice. It’s perfectly suited for applications that rely on event-driven architectures, facilitating near-real-time data transfers and pipelines, stream analytics, and any situation where swift data movement between applications is essential. With Aiven’s hosted and expertly managed Apache Kafka, you can effortlessly set up clusters, add new nodes, transition between cloud environments, and update existing versions with just a single click, all while keeping an eye on performance through a user-friendly dashboard. Additionally, this service enables businesses to scale their data solutions efficiently as their needs evolve.

Create advanced applications that streamline workflows, provide ongoing operational monitoring, and manage processes in real-time. Your solutions are designed to operate continuously on cloud servers as well as edge devices. Utilizing a familiar spreadsheet interface, you don't need to be a programmer; instead, you can simply drag and drop data, enter formulas into cells, and create charts in an intuitive manner. All the essential protocols required for connecting to sensors and machinery, such as MQTT, REST, and OPC UA, are readily available. Streamsheets specializes in processing streaming data, including formats like MQTT and Kafka. You can select a topic stream, modify it as needed, and send it back into the vast world of streaming data. With REST, you gain access to a multitude of web services, while Streamsheets enables seamless connections both ways. Not only do Streamsheets operate in the cloud and on your servers, but they can also be deployed on edge devices, including Raspberry Pi, expanding their versatility to various environments. This flexibility allows businesses to adapt their systems according to their specific operational needs.