Apache Spark vs. IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apache Spark
Score 8.9 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Score 9.1 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Pak for Data (formerly IBM Cloud Private for Data) provides data management, data governance, and automated data discovery and classification.N/A
Pricing
Apache SparkIBM Cloud Pak for Data
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apache SparkIBM Cloud Pak for Data
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Apache SparkIBM Cloud Pak for Data
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(24 ratings)
9.6
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apache SparkIBM Cloud Pak for Data
Likelihood to Recommend
Apache
Well suited: To most of the local run of datasets and non-prod systems - scalability is not a problem at all. Including data from multiple types of data sources is an added advantage. MLlib is a decently nice built-in library that can be used for most of the ML tasks. Less appropriate: We had to work on a RecSys where the music dataset that we used was around 300+Gb in size. We faced memory-based issues. Few times we also got memory errors. Also the MLlib library does not have support for advanced analytics and deep-learning frameworks support. Understanding the internals of the working of Apache Spark for beginners is highly not possible.
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IBM
IBM Cloud Pak for Data with Netezza is well suited for clients who require fast, economical analytics processing. It is not designed to be used as a transactional processing environment. For example, a large customer is using it during the point of sale process. That makes little sense in that business case. However, to take analysis to market faster, it excels well in that space.
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Pros
Apache
  • Rich APIs for data transformation making for very each to transform and prepare data in a distributed environment without worrying about memory issues
  • Faster in execution times compare to Hadoop and PIG Latin
  • Easy SQL interface to the same data set for people who are comfortable to explore data in a declarative manner
  • Interoperability between SQL and Scala / Python style of munging data
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IBM
  • I really like the AI and ML which enables us to source data in different sources for easy data-driven decisions.
  • It's a cloud tool that keeps all our data safe, backed up ahs obtainable at any time without being exposed to any kind of risks or loss.
  • I like the fact that ICP is main based on open source stack which adds value to products like VA or MCM.
  • IBM support service is great and top-class.
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Cons
Apache
  • Memory management. Very weak on that.
  • PySpark not as robust as scala with spark.
  • spark master HA is needed. Not as HA as it should be.
  • Locality should not be a necessity, but does help improvement. But would prefer no locality
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IBM
  • This offering is currently available on prem, in Azure, and soon in AWS. GCP availability will be in the future as there is demand in the marketplace
  • The on premise offering starts with a Base + 0 model, which is a significant appliance. There are no 'mini' offerings as there were in the past.
  • At Destiny, we work closely with IBM to help our clients perform budgetary planning.
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Likelihood to Renew
Apache
Capacity of computing data in cluster and fast speed.
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IBM
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Usability
Apache
If the team looking to use Apache Spark is not used to debug and tweak settings for jobs to ensure maximum optimizations, it can be frustrating. However, the documentation and the support of the community on the internet can help resolve most issues. Moreover, it is highly configurable and it integrates with different tools (eg: it can be used by dbt core), which increase the scenarios where it can be used
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IBM
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Support Rating
Apache
1. It integrates very well with scala or python. 2. It's very easy to understand SQL interoperability. 3. Apache is way faster than the other competitive technologies. 4. The support from the Apache community is very huge for Spark. 5. Execution times are faster as compared to others. 6. There are a large number of forums available for Apache Spark. 7. The code availability for Apache Spark is simpler and easy to gain access to. 8. Many organizations use Apache Spark, so many solutions are available for existing applications.
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IBM
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Alternatives Considered
Apache
Spark in comparison to similar technologies ends up being a one stop shop. You can achieve so much with this one framework instead of having to stitch and weave multiple technologies from the Hadoop stack, all while getting incredibility performance, minimal boilerplate, and getting the ability to write your application in the language of your choosing.
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IBM
Generally this tool has been very helpful and innovative because increase our workflow and collaboration using integrated multi-cloud platform. It also enables us to deploy in any flexible way like on-premises or cloud which saves time and hard disk space. It also enables us to connect, catalog, govern, transform and analyze data regardless of the area.
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Return on Investment
Apache
  • Business leaders are able to take data driven decisions
  • Business users are able access to data in near real time now . Before using spark, they had to wait for at least 24 hours for data to be available
  • Business is able come up with new product ideas
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IBM
  • IBM Cloud helps us to manage data speed across every distributed stores and clouds.
  • Acts as a single unified tool which brings all our data in one place where it's safe and easy to access.
  • Enables all of our data users to collaborate from a single, unified interface that supports many services that are designed to work seamless.
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