Apache Spark Streaming vs. IBM Streams (discontinued) vs. jKool

Apache Spark Streaming is a tool that we are using for almost a year and is excellent in managing batch processing. It is user-friendly. Using it, we can even process our massive data in fractions of seconds. Its pricing is its other plus point. Only its In-memory processing is its demerit as it occupies a large memory.

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Like the name says, it is good for streaming data and analyzing. It is great to look at tuples at a fast rate, filtering, calling other sources to enrich data, can call APIs, etc. Could do better for ingest use cases, can do better with guaranteed delivery, etc.

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JKool is a decent tool for retrieving information regarding user engagement and customer feedback for your software products. With these information it's very valuable stepping stone for us to make future updates or produce new products. However, there are some downsides with jKool, two of which are there are too much clutter in the GUI and it takes sometimes to turn how things work.

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• It is amazing in solving complicated transformative logic.
• It is straightforward to program.
• It is a very quick tool.
• It processes large data within a fraction of seconds.

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• IBM Streams is well suited for providing wire-speed real-time end-to-end processing with sub-millisecond latency.
• Streams is amazingly computationally efficient. In other words, you can typically do much more processing with a given amount of hardware than other technologies. In a recent linear-road benchmark Streams based application was able to provide greater capability than the Hadoop-based implementation using 10x less hardware. So even when latency isn't critical, using Streams might still make sense for reducing operational cost.
• Streams comes out of the box with a large and comprehensive set of tested and optimized toolkits. Leveraging these toolkits not only reduces the development time and cost but also helps reduce project risk by eliminating the need for custom code which likely has not seen as much time in test or production.
• In addition to the out of the box toolkits, there is an active developer community contributing additional specialized packages.

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• There must be more documentation.
• It is a profoundly complex tool.
• Its in-memory processing consumes massive memory.

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• Documentation could be more extensive, with more examples, although overall this is not too bad compared to some of the alternative solutions.
• Seems expensive to use in production.

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Apache Spark Streaming stands above all the huge data transformative tools because of its speed of processing which was quite slow in Presto as it takes a lot of our time in the data processing. Spark, comfortably provides integration with Jupyter like notebook environment. and Spark's combination with Jupyter and Python results in enhancing the speed .

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There are well explained tutorials to get the user started. If you are looking for business application ideas, the user community offers a diversity of applications. It is very easy to launch applications on the cloud and can integrate with other analytic tools available on Watson Studio. It takes away the burden of the technology so that users can focus on business innovations.

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No other product that I used is similar to jKool, it's unique product that have good amount of features that I would be opened to invest more in the future if time permit. It still has a long way to go and the first thing it can do is clean up it user interface to make it better.

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• Cost and time-effective tool for our business.
• We can integrate with Jupyter with many conveniences.
• Its high-speed data processing has proved beneficial for us.

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• Ability to do more with less
• Admins and data analyst can now focus on more thinking tasks
• No negative impacts yet

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