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Amazon Web Services Has Licensed SQLstream Technology for Amazon ... https://sqlstream.com/amazon-web-services-has-licensed-sqlstream-technology-for-amazon-kine

• ryanworl 8y ago
  Kinesis Analytics uses Kinesis Streams as a data source. They are not the same service.
  • sixdimensional 8y ago
    I see your point, although I sense they are quite closely integrated? Additional info.. https://www.datanami.com/2016/08/17/sql-service-heart-amazon-kinesis-analytics/ https://www.datanami.com/2016/08/17/sql-service-heart-amazon...
    • otterley 8y ago
      There are multiple different products under the same "Kinesis" branding umbrella, among them: * Kinesis Streams (the product being discussed in the post) * Kinesis Firehose * Kinesis Analytics Most people, when they discuss Kinesis, mean Kinesis Streams specifically. The other products are Streams consumers.
• pixelmonkey 8y ago
  I don't have this on authority, but I believe Kinesis Streams is an AWS-maintained fork of Kafka around 0.7. Firehose is a wrapper around Lambda + Kinesis Streams. And Kinesis Analytics is a SQLStream wrapper with Kinesis Streams as its input. That's my best understanding, anyway.
  • coredog64 8y ago
    I heard a rumor that Amazon wanted to offer Kafka as a managed service, couldn't get it to work they way they wanted, and then said "f--k this" and wrote something that is functionally similar.
    • pixelmonkey 8y ago
      That's wholly possible. They might have just copied the "rough design" of topics/consumers and queue-as-log, but clean-house implemented it. I wouldn't be surprised. Kafka was a pretty minimal codebase at that stage.