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Google Cloud Dataflow vs. Microsoft Azure IoT Central

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Azure IoT Central

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure IoT Central allows users to connect IoT devices to the cloud and offers centralized management to configure and updated connected devices.N/A
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    Google Cloud DataflowAzure IoT Central
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    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud DataflowAzure IoT Central
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Google Cloud DataflowAzure IoT Central
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Google Cloud Dataflow and Microsoft Azure IoT Central
    Feature
    Google Cloud Dataflow
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Microsoft Azure IoT Central
    -
    Ratings
    Real-Time Data Analysis8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low Latency9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Enrichment8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud DataflowAzure IoT Central
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud DataflowAzure IoT Central
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Azure IoT Central has native integrations with Visual Studio (like pretty much all Microsoft products) making it pretty simple to publish apps to Azure App Service, where you can host all sorts of different applications. It does a really good job of storing large amounts of data (for instance, collected from IoT devices with various sensors) and it gets stored to multiple DBs. Azure IoT Central could improve by adding more customizations, as this would make troubleshooting the products easier and make future costs smaller and easier to predict.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Streaming, Real time work load
    • Batch processing
    • Auto scaling
    • flexible pricing
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    Microsoft
    • Documentation
    • Support
    • Good and approachable GUI
    • Many types of subscription configurations
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    Cons
    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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    Microsoft
    • central application
    • smartphone app
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    Usability
    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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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Cloud Dataproc Cloud Datafusion
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    Microsoft
    Before deciding to go with Microsoft Azure IoT Central, we considered Google, Datadog, and AWS alternatives. The reason we went with Azure was that the client was heavily invested in Microsoft technologies and Azure plays really well with other Microsoft products. The competitive products might be a little bit easier to set up, with more flexible pricing, but, the integrations with other Microsoft services were the deciding factor for our use case.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Microsoft
    • positive: connected huge number of machines as IoT devices and passed them through entire IoT pipeline until storage in a fairly short time
    • negative: we spent some time figuring out some "less-used" services because they aren't documented well
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