As companies migrate their workloads to the cloud, their expectation and understanding of cloud-native principles grow. They increasingly aim for solutions that are more closely aligned with modern cloud-native principles and capabilities. Apache Kafka has become the most popular open-source, distributed streaming platform that offers an array of use cases aligning perfectly with the principles of cloud-native architecture.

The engineering team at Calsoft conducted a benchmark study to evaluate the capabilities of StreamNative Cloud (“StreamNative”) and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (AWS MSK) across critical metrics such as: