Amazon Kinesis emulator

Question

We are evaluating real-time event processing engines (like twitter storm) One of the options is recently released Amazon Kinesis.

I'm wondering if there is any sort of emulator/sandbox environment available that would allow to play around with kinesis a bit without the need to set up AWS account and paying for the use of the service

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

I've been using kinesalite for a while now and it seems to work quite well.

Since I don't really like to have node packages into my machine, I've also created a docker image for it.

Hope this helps.