Astra Streaming vs. IBM Event Automation

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Astra Streaming
Score 10.0 out of 10
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DataStax Astra Streaming is a fully-managed event streaming service powered by Apache Pulsar that was built to scale. Astra Streaming has been built to run in the cloud of your choice, including (GCP, AWS, Microsoft Azure) without sacrificing open-source compatibility.N/A
IBM Event Automation
Score 8.1 out of 10
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IBM Event Automation enables businesses to accelerate their event-driven efforts. The event streams, event endpoint management and event processing capabilities help lay the foundation of an event-driven architecture for unlocking the value of events.N/A
Pricing
Astra StreamingIBM Event Automation
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Astra StreamingIBM Event Automation
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Astra StreamingIBM Event Automation
Small Businesses

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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 5.3 out of 10
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 5.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Astra StreamingIBM Event Automation
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(14 ratings)
Usability
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8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(9 ratings)
User Testimonials
Astra StreamingIBM Event Automation
Likelihood to Recommend
DataStax
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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IBM
IBM Event Streams is well suited for companies developing event driven Microservices. One of the biggest challenger with microservices is that your data gets distributed into little silos - event streaming (or better known as event sourcing) allows you to get a central source of truth in your event store. We are taking this approach with IBM Event Streams and it is well suited for building an event streaming / sourcing architecture.
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Pros
DataStax
  • Easy to operate and save man hours
  • Easy installation and configuration
  • Mature and scalable data warehouse, well supported
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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
DataStax
  • Their solution is expensive compared to other resolutions, however you get what you pay for.
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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
DataStax
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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
DataStax
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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
DataStax
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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
DataStax
  • 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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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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