Azure Stream Analytics vs. Google Cloud Dataflow vs. IBM Streams (discontinued)
Azure Stream Analytics vs. Google Cloud Dataflow vs. IBM Streams (discontinued)
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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![]() Azure Stream Analytics | N/A | Microsoft offers Azure Stream Analytics for IoT and connected devices, supporting real-time analytics and reporting. | $0.11 per hour with a 1 SU minimum | |
Google Cloud Dataflow | N/A | Google offers Cloud Dataflow, a managed streaming analytics platform for real-time data insights, fraud detection, and other purposes. | N/A | |
IBM Streams (discontinued) | N/A | A 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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| Additional Details | Azure Stream Analytics is priced by the number of Streaming Units provisioned. A Streaming Unit represents the amount of memory and compute allocated to your resources. | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Small Businesses | IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10 | IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10 | Amazon Kinesis Score 9.8 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Confluent Score 9.2 out of 10 | Confluent Score 9.2 out of 10 | Confluent Score 9.2 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Spotfire Streaming Score 5.1 out of 10 | Spotfire Streaming Score 5.1 out of 10 | Spotfire Streaming Score 5.1 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.0 (1 ratings) | 8.0 (1 ratings) | 9.0 (9 ratings) |
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| Usability | ![]() Microsoft No answers on this topic | ![]() Google
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| Alternatives Considered | ![]() Microsoft
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