Azure Stream Analytics vs. IBM Event Streams

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Stream Analytics
Score 8.0 out of 10
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
IBM Event Streams
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
IBM Event Streams is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, event streaming solution. Powered by Apache Kafka, it provides access to enterprise data through event streams, enabling businesses to unlock insights from historical data, and identify and take action on situations in real time and at scale.N/A
Pricing
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM Event Streams
Editions & Modules
Standard
$0.11
per hour with a 1 SU minimum
Dedicated
$0.11
per hour with a 36 SU minimum
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM Event Streams
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAzure 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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Community Pulse
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM Event Streams
Top Pros
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Features
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM Event Streams
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Azure Stream Analytics
6.1
1 Ratings
28% below category average
IBM Event Streams
-
Ratings
Real-Time Data Analysis7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Low Latency8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enrichment7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM Event Streams
Small Businesses
IBM Streams
IBM Streams
Score 9.0 out of 10

No answers on this topic

Medium-sized Companies
Confluent
Confluent
Score 7.4 out of 10
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 8.1 out of 10
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM Event Streams
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
7.9
(15 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(10 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM Event Streams
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Data enrichment is effectively done in stream analytics also checking the values with different functionality like windowing and group by clause is effectively working.
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IBM
We used it in two cases, and it went pretty good with both. We used it for analytics and logging alongside event-based communication between different tech-stacks. One thing that users need to keep in mind is that it has a limited knowledgebase and will need a good understanding of Kafka to use it efficiently. So choose it carefully and when its needed
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Routing of data from multiple inputs to multiple output
  • You create your own user define function.
  • Intermediate query is working very effectively.
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IBM
  • It is adaptive and helps us create more engaging experiences on our platforms.
  • The Key metrics dashboard is rich with insights.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Code competency is not that much effective
  • Ml models can't be integrated with stream analytics
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IBM
  • Provide Capabilities to connect the Event Streams via REST Proxy.
  • Schema Registry to handle Avro Formats.
  • Provide Kafka Connect Sink & Source Connectors.
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Usability
Microsoft
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IBM
The product was very user friendly and extremely easy to get started with. The documentation is excellent and the free tier makes it very easy to get started with without having to make deep or long term financial commitments.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
IBM
I met with the support team and they have deep technical and development understanding of the needs and the problems which IBM Event Streams addresses. If you are looking for a product backed by a highly technical support team then IBM Event Streams is probably the best choice. I was specifically impressed by the level of technical understanding my support team demonstrated.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Azure Stream Analytics is easy to implement and also to integrate compare to other services like iot analytics
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IBM
In Event Streams, applications send data by creating a message and sending it to a topic. To receive messages, applications subscribe to a topic. High availability and reliability. Event Streams offers a highly available and reliable Apache Kafka service running on IBM Cloud. Event Streams. Event Streams stores three replicas of your data to ensure the highest level of resilience across three availability zones.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Very nice roi while using it.
  • Multiple integration is the best functionality
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IBM
  • In using downstreams, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, makes us feel that there's no upgrades and other than that there's poor marketing of the product.
  • The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing.
  • Lack of visibility into topic depth , Monitoring capabilities
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