Azure Stream Analytics vs. IBM Streams (discontinued)

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 Streams (discontinued)
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. The product was sunsetted in 2024.N/A
Pricing
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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
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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
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Considered Both Products
Azure Stream Analytics
Chose Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Stream Analytics is easy to implement and also to integrate compare to other services like iot analytics
IBM Streams (discontinued)
Chose IBM Streams (discontinued)
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 …
Chose IBM Streams (discontinued)
We are using Spark streaming as well as Storm for streaming options. Currently streams provides a better way of building applications easier faster and run efficiently. Also like the flexibility it provides with both us and SPL.
Chose IBM Streams (discontinued)
Coral8, some open source tools
Chose IBM Streams (discontinued)
Well, I recently got hired 3 weeks ago and am still exploring IBM Streaming Analytics. What I heard is that it is much better than its competitors.
Chose IBM Streams (discontinued)
I have considered Apache Spark Streaming and Apache Flink. Spark Streaming is still changing too often for my taste and does not seem as easy to connect to IoT data especially for students having limited experience with cloud computing. Interesting signal processing functions …
Chose IBM Streams (discontinued)
Basically, I am building an IoT project. IBM cloud is a great platform for connecting all kinds of functions and make it work. To me, IBM Streams is just one of them. Any IoT project is custom made. So engineers have to think carefully how to use least resources to make the …
Chose IBM Streams (discontinued)
The selection of a stream processing platform depends heavily on the details of the requirements. There is no one right answer for all situations. However, IBM Streams typically has the advantage when sub-millisecond latency is important, complex analytics need to be …
Features
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Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Azure Stream Analytics
6.1
Ratings
27% below category average
IBM Streams (discontinued)
8.3
Ratings
4% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Low Latency8.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools2.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out5.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Data Enrichment7.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Machine Learning Automation00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
IBM Streams (discontinued)
IBM Streams (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis
Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Confluent
Confluent
Score 9.2 out of 10
Confluent
Confluent
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 5.1 out of 10
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 5.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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Streams is a good fit for situations requiring low end-to-end latency, have complex real-time analytical processing needs on large fast data, or where the reduction of operational costs is important. However, it is very much a data-in-motion technology and not well suited for situations such as some forms of machine learning where the entire historical data set needs to be operated on. Note that it's fairly common to use Streams to perform online scoring using models that were trained offline using other technologies.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Query analysis of real time streaming data
  • Filter out events based on time windows
  • Scalability for large scale data, production tested
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Cons
  • Code competency is not that much effective
  • Ml models can't be integrated with stream analytics
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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
Azure Stream Analytics is easy to implement and also to integrate compare to other services like iot analytics
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We are using Spark streaming as well as Storm for streaming options. Currently streams provides a better way of building applications easier faster and run efficiently. Also like the flexibility it provides with both us and SPL.
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Return on Investment
  • Very nice roi while using it.
  • Multiple integration is the best functionality
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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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