Astra Streaming vs. Spotfire Streaming

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.

Incentivized

Taking data from various sources including files, databases, web services, applying some complex rules, transforming, aggregating and producing a result. This is what Spotfire Streaming does best.
- If one needs connectivity to special services as secured databases or web services, building interactive web apps, those are probably tasks that shall be addressed with different tools.

Incentivized

• Easy to operate and save man hours
• Easy installation and configuration
• Mature and scalable data warehouse, well supported

Incentivized

• Processing events in real-time with real low latency and high throughput.
• 100% visual program language, which can be extended by common languages like Java, Python and .NET.
• Reduced time to prototype, create an application and deployment, which reduces the software lifecycle.
• Real robust engine and server. Barely heard of customers having issues in production.

• Their solution is expensive compared to other resolutions, however you get what you pay for.

Incentivized

• Not all problems are suited to the event driven paradigm.
• As the complexity of an application grows, finding your way around code in the GUI takes some getting used to.
• The Spotfire Streaming development environment is built in Eclipse, which is not everyone's cup of tea.

Spotfire Streaming support is prompt and to the point. They help with best practices and learning from existing projects.

Incentivized

We are using Dataflow (by Google).The development time in Spotfire Streaming is definitely shorter because its GUI based. Dataflow handles late arrivals after the window closes, not sure Spotfire Streaming can do that. Dataflow can run GCP as a managed service which is why we chose that tool for our new product.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• While we haven't specifically integrated Spotfire Streaming into our product development, it has allowed us to see the benefits of real-time streaming data.
• We have much more visibility into how our longer term roadmap will look and what we should focus on.

Incentivized