IBM Event Streams vs. Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Event Streams
Score 8.4 out of 10
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IBM Event Streams is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, event streaming solution. Powered by Apache Kafka, it provides access to enterprise data through event streams, enabling businesses to unlock insights from historical data, and identify and take action on situations in real time and at scale.N/A
Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight is the company's complex event processing (CEP) platform to help businesses create event-driven applications and derive better insights by correlating event streams from multiple sources, boasting near-zero latency. It can be freely downloaded.N/A
Pricing
IBM Event StreamsMicrosoft SQL Server StreamInsight
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IBM Event StreamsMicrosoft SQL Server StreamInsight
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Medium-sized Companies
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Score 8.4 out of 10
Confluent
Confluent
Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Score 8.4 out of 10
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 7.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Event StreamsMicrosoft SQL Server StreamInsight
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(15 ratings)
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Usability
8.2
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
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Ease of integration
7.8
(10 ratings)
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User Testimonials
IBM Event StreamsMicrosoft SQL Server StreamInsight
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
We used it in two cases, and it went pretty good with both. We used it for analytics and logging alongside event-based communication between different tech-stacks. One thing that users need to keep in mind is that it has a limited knowledgebase and will need a good understanding of Kafka to use it efficiently. So choose it carefully and when its needed
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Microsoft
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Pros
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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Microsoft
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Cons
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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Microsoft
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Usability
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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Microsoft
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Support Rating
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
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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Microsoft
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Return on Investment
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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Microsoft
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