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    Drools

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ADrools is an open source business rules management system developed by Red Hat.N/A

    IBM Event Automation

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM 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
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    DroolsIBM Event Automation
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    User Ratings
    DroolsIBM Event Automation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    DroolsIBM Event Automation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    As an open source rule engine and product suite, Drools is well suited for the small and middle scale business to manage and integrate the rules to build the rule-driven system which can process the business-critical data and events to produce the automated decision. It is better to use Drools in the well-secured environment (back-end behind the DMZ), not putting it on the customer-facing front or exposing it directly the to public where may bring direct security risk in the enterprise environment. Drools still needs a lot hardening on the security side.
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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
    Open Source
    • Writing rules with business focus
    • Rules evolution and maintenance
    • separate business logic from program code
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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
    Open Source
    • Fusion doesn't support persistence of working memory, which brings some extra high availability risk to our business.
    • Guvnor still has a lot room to be implemented, it is not so user-friendly for non-technical people, so a lot of business users complain it is hard to master.
    • Rule execution server doesn't even have JMX implemented, hard to be monitored.
    • Drools is still lacking support for key Web services standards.
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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
    Open Source
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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
    Open Source
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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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    Open Source
    I did not participate in drools choice. I can only compare drools with the previous situation which was using nothing.
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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
    Open Source
    • The IT department quickly adopted Drools as it is a very good java-based rule engine, which saves a lot of time to meet the project timeline and balanced our business requirements.
    • Recently we start considering the OpenRules, which may be more business user-friendly.
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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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