S3Stream is a shared streaming storage library that provides a unified interface for reading and writing streaming data to cloud object storage services like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage. EBS is utilized here for its low-latency capabilities. It is designed to be used as the storage layer for distributed systems like Apache Kafka, Apache RocketMQ, etc.
Compared to Apache Kafka, here are some highlighted conclusions:
* a 300-fold efficiency in partition reassignment.
* a 200-fold improvement in cold read efficiency.
* twice the throughput limit.
* one-eleventh of the billing cost
