IBM Event Streams vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Event Streams
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
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
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (WSO2 EI) is an open-source hybrid integration platform providing graphical and CLI tooling, integration runtimes, and monitoring with a variety of deployment options. The integration runtime engine is capable of playing multiple roles in an enterprise architecture. It can act as an ESB, a streaming data processor, and a microservices integrator. Deployment options include on-premises, cloud, hybrid, or a container orchestration platform of choice.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Event StreamsWSO2 Enterprise Integrator
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
IBM Event StreamsWSO2 Enterprise Integrator
Top Pros

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Top Cons
Features
IBM Event StreamsWSO2 Enterprise Integrator
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
IBM Event Streams
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Ratings
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator
7.5
1 Ratings
9% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
IBM Event Streams
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Ratings
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator
9.0
1 Ratings
7% above category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
IBM Event Streams
-
Ratings
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator
8.6
1 Ratings
6% above category average
Data model creation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
IBM Event Streams
-
Ratings
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator
8.0
1 Ratings
3% below category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
IBM Event StreamsWSO2 Enterprise Integrator
Small Businesses

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Skyvia
Skyvia
Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Score 8.4 out of 10
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Score 8.4 out of 10
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Event StreamsWSO2 Enterprise Integrator
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(15 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.8
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Event StreamsWSO2 Enterprise Integrator
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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WSO2
The best-suited scenario is the service chain pattern or all patterns used in online mode. The less appropriate scenario is a batch service the duration time of the service is more than 10minutes because it is necessary to increase the HTTP timeout.
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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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WSO2
  • Service chain pattern
  • Message transformation
  • Call more than one backend service
  • Call service with different protocoll as the client use
  • Use file as input
  • Use mail as input
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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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WSO2
  • View deploy artifact in date time order
  • Easy way to map data
  • Easy way to manage payload
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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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WSO2
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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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WSO2
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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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WSO2
We can start with the community version and then when we moved into production we can buy the supported version. The supported and community version have the same code so we can do every test before deciding to buy the supported version.
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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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WSO2
  • Reduce development time to the service integration
  • We can use junior developer
  • Clustered in easy way
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