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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Astra Streaming

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ANow from IBM, Astra Streaming is a serverless data streaming and event stream processing service integrated in the Astra Portal and powered by Apache Pulsar™.N/A

    Google Cloud Dataflow

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGoogle offers Cloud Dataflow, a managed streaming analytics platform for real-time data insights, fraud detection, and other purposes.N/A

    TIBCO BusinessEvents

    Score6.3 out of 10
    N/AEnterprises are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of events that occur continuously. Hidden amongst them can be stalled business processes, opportunities for value creation, potential fraud, dissatisfied customers, failing equipment, and more. TIBCO BusinessEvents® proactively identifies these critical events, responds intelligently in real-time to navigate the fast-moving business environments and optimize outcomes. Decision-making in businesses requires a comprehensive…N/A
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
    IBM Astra StreamingGoogle Cloud DataflowTIBCO BusinessEvents
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of IBM Astra Streaming and Google Cloud Dataflow and TIBCO BusinessEvents
    Feature
    IBM Astra Streaming
    -
    Ratings
    Google Cloud Dataflow
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    TIBCO BusinessEvents
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    Ratings
    Real-Time Data Analysis00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low Latency00 Ratings9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation00 Ratings6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Enrichment00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM Astra StreamingGoogle Cloud DataflowTIBCO BusinessEvents
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
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    7.2
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Astra StreamingGoogle Cloud DataflowTIBCO BusinessEvents
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    DataStax Enterprise is a state-of-the-art data management platform that manages our own data across web, mobile, and IoT applications. It is a hybrid cloud-based solution that enables us to meet the availability and performance requirements of web, IoT and mobile platforms.
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    Google
    It is best in cases where you have batch as well as streaming data. Also in some cases where you have batch data right now and in future you will get streaming data. In those cases Dataflow is very good. Also in cases where most of your infra is on GCP. It might not be good when you already are on AWS or Azure. And also you want in-depth control over security and management. Then you can directly use Apache beam over Dataflow.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO BusinessEvents is part of the CEP (Complex Event Processing) family, this means that it fits perfectly in all those scenarios where a correlation between incoming events is required. Where a stateful process is necessary. It does not fit well for a kind of Process Orchestrator scope, where simple events are coming in, and there is a well-defined behavior the system, would have on incoming request, and no particular reason to use a rule engine and its complexity. Anyway, there are particular cases where BusinessEvents would be a good actor in orchestrating a portion of CEP solutions activities
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Easy to operate and save man hours
    • Easy installation and configuration
    • Mature and scalable data warehouse, well supported
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    Google
    • Streaming, Real time work load
    • Batch processing
    • Auto scaling
    • flexible pricing
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    Cloud Software Group
    • It allows us to build rule-based model-driven application, to collect, filter, analyze, correlate various business events in our real-time event flow
    • It makes various business applications/components easy to integrate (loosely decoupled but chained via the events flow) together
    • Its distributed rule engine and embedded in-memory data grid (ActiveSpace) gives us a lot of flexibility and room to play with a large amount of rules and data with high performance
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Their solution is expensive compared to other resolutions, however you get what you pay for.
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    Google
    • More templates for Bigquery and App Engine. There is only limited options for templates so the things we use can limit.
    • I would like native connectors for Excel (XLSX) to reduce the need for custom wrappers in financial pipelines.
    • Debugging Google Cloud Dataflow using only logs in Cloud Logging can be overwhelming sometimes, and it’s not always obvious which specific element in the flow caused a failure. IT uses a lot of time.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Better integration with R versions and better debug for R-scripts in Spotfire. There are inconsistencies in syntactic expressions accepted by R-studio and not accepted in Spotfire. Accelerating the debug would be awesome. Having a command like View (data frame) that directly output in the dashboard would be a great accelerator.
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    Usability
    IBM
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    Google
    It really saved a lot of time and it's flexibility really can give you infra which is future-proof for most of the use cases may it be streaming or batch data. And with this you can avoid use of resource-heavy big data offerings.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO Business Events is one of the best in business and very well suitable for organization like ours where there are large volumes of data that need to be processed on daily basis. It helps in real time monitoring of data and supports writing complex rules which makes it easier to get the work done. It also helps in fraud detection by identifying suspicious activities and integrate with other systems for a comprehensive view.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
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    Google
    Google Cloud Dataproc Cloud Datafusion
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    Cloud Software Group
    I was not part of evaluation of the products in this space in my organization. But I feel BE is better in terms of RIO if compared with some commercial products from Orcle, IBM and SAP. I strongly feel difficulty in using cloud native features is one big shortcoming in current product offering. This will tend customer like us to explore options that are well suited with ur cloud first vision.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • In my personal opinion, I can mention that this product has enormous positive points because it has worked really well for us in our organization in a very positive way, for which we ourselves feel quite comfortable with this product.
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    Google
    • cost saving from managing our own data center for ETL servers
    • consumption based pricing
    • with auto scaling feature, we were able to expand components to support work load
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Positive : Real-time event stream processing helps handle transactions very efficiently.
    • Negative : Earlier versions of BE (5.0 & 5.1) had major issues in data handling in cache that impacted the data integrity of the application.
    • Positive : Decision Tables are a huge plus in TIBCO BE.
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