Astro by Astronomer vs. IBM StreamSets

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Astro by Astronomer
Score 9.0 out of 10
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For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, a data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code. Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow™, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded more than 8 million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world.N/A
IBM StreamSets
Score 8.0 out of 10
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IBM® StreamSets enables users to create and manage smart streaming data pipelines through a graphical interface, facilitating data integration across hybrid and multicloud environments. IBM StreamSets can support millions of data pipelines for analytics, applications and hybrid integration.N/A
Pricing
Astro by AstronomerIBM StreamSets
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Astro by AstronomerIBM StreamSets
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Astro by AstronomerIBM StreamSets
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Astro by AstronomerIBM StreamSets
Likelihood to Recommend
Astronomer, Inc.
Astronomer is well suited for workflow and dependency management for enterprise-level data lakes. It is not a product for data processing though. Different source systems can be integrated, it also provides powerful interfaces for alerting and monitoring. Easy to build DAGs, graphical UI, API support makes the product more user-friendly as well. Astronomer also does a great job on user training.
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IBM
IBM StreamSets excels in real-time logistics data ingestion and transformation across hybrid systems. It’s less ideal for lightweight ETL tasks or static datasets where simpler tools can achieve similar results with less overhead and complexity.
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Pros
Astronomer, Inc.
  • Workflow management
  • Wide availability of plugins
  • Dependency management on upstream
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IBM
  • It helps streaming huge data that we have in our Teradata database to various reporting applications that runs on cloud seamlessly.
  • We also use IBM StreamSets to power few BI dashboards that our product managers use on regular basis to showcase various data with clients.
  • I think the data quality is way better compared to Informatica tool.
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Cons
Astronomer, Inc.
  • More language agnostic
  • Flexible fork and join capabilities
  • Near real time UI updates in case of deployment of enhanced DAGs
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IBM
  • The error messages I feel aren t always very descriptive so troubleshooting can take longer
  • Maybe more customisation options for scheduling can be done, rest it works pretty well.
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Likelihood to Renew
Astronomer, Inc.
No answers on this topic
IBM
IBM Stream sets has been a wonderful addition to our technology stack. It has helped in some of our initiatives such as data engineering, data integration for not only external customers but also for internal purposes. The tool has also helped on our use cases related to streaming data. Moving to another tool would require significant amount of work and time.
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Usability
Astronomer, Inc.
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IBM
The StreamSets platform is very easy to use and the interface is extremely intuitive. The drag-and-drop, low-code design makes it accessible for teams with varying technical skills, allowing us to quickly connect sources, define transformations, and deploy pipelines without heavy coding. StreamSets allows us to get started quickly and not have to worry about our pipelines breaking once they're built.
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Support Rating
Astronomer, Inc.
No answers on this topic
IBM
Streamsets support has improved a lot in the last couple of years. We had some challenges in the beginning with support, but now the quality of the support and the responsiveness to tickets are better. We have contacted support multiple times when it came to scenarios where the system was slow or the output as not as we expected
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Implementation Rating
Astronomer, Inc.
No answers on this topic
IBM
I was not involved in the implementation
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Alternatives Considered
Astronomer, Inc.
Astronomer is a fast, secure, scalable workload management solution. It provides world-class user training along with easy to interact support.
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IBM
First advantage is that this software is particularly new and it keeps updating according to the needs of the user. Other advantage is the it organises and produces conclusions on the basis of data without leaving any relevant information. Other softwares lack in data summarising and readability of the charts and sheets they produce.
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Return on Investment
Astronomer, Inc.
  • It helps to build scalable, available and low maintenance workloads
  • Integrated Alerts and notifications helps to detect load issues in the early stages
  • Ensures meeting data SLAs
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IBM
  • time saving for automatic collection and integration of data
  • time saving thanks to live monitoring and reaction
  • time saving for standardization of data
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