Azure Stream Analytics vs. IBM Streams

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Stream Analytics
Score 8.0 out of 10
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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 Streams
Score 9.0 out of 10
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 — helping organizations spot opportunities and risks as they happen. Its Eclipse-based, visual IDE lets solution architects visually build applications or use familiar programming languages like Java™, Scala or Python. Data engineers can connect with virtually any data source — whether…N/A
Pricing
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM 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 Streams
Free Trial
NoNo
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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Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM Streams
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Features
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM 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 Streams
8.3
5 Ratings
3% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis7.01 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources7.01 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Low Latency8.01 Ratings7.93 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools2.01 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation7.01 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out5.01 Ratings7.72 Ratings
Data Enrichment7.01 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Machine Learning Automation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM Streams
Small Businesses
IBM Streams
IBM Streams
Score 9.0 out of 10
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis
Score 8.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Confluent
Confluent
Score 7.4 out of 10
Confluent
Confluent
Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 8.1 out of 10
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 8.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM Streams
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Stream AnalyticsIBM 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
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
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
  • 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
Microsoft
  • Code competency is not that much effective
  • Ml models can't be integrated with stream analytics
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IBM
  • 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
Azure Stream Analytics is easy to implement and also to integrate compare to other services like iot analytics
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IBM
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
  • Very nice roi while using it.
  • Multiple integration is the best functionality
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IBM
  • 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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