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Azure Data Explorer vs. IBM Streams (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Data Explorer

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AAzure Data Explorer is a fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis on large volumes of data streaming from applications, websites, IoT devices, and more. Users can ask questions and iteratively explore data on the fly to improve products, enhance customer experiences, monitor devices, and boost operations. It is used to identify patterns, anomalies, and trends in data.

    $0.11

    core per hour pay as you go

    IBM Streams (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AA real-time analytics solution that turns fast-moving volumes and varieties into insights. Streams evaluates a broad range of streaming data — unstructured text, video, audio, geospatial and sensor. The product was sunsetted in 2024.N/A
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    Editions & Modules
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
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    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Azure Data Explorer and IBM Streams (discontinued)
    Feature
    Azure Data Explorer
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    Ratings
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Real-Time Data Analysis00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Low Latency00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Data Enrichment00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Azure Data ExplorerIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Amazon Kinesis
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Amazon Kinesis
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Enterprises
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score5 out of 10
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Data ExplorerIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    -
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    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
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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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    Pros
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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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    Cons
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
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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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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
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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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