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IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. IBM Streams (discontinued)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM InfoSphere Information Server

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM InfoSphere Information Server is a data integration platform used to understand, cleanse, monitor and transform data. The offerings provide massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.N/A

    IBM Streams (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AA real-time analytics solution that turns fast-moving volumes and varieties into insights. Streams evaluates a broad range of streaming data — unstructured text, video, audio, geospatial and sensor. The product was sunsetted in 2024.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Chose IBM Streams (discontinued)
    I have considered Apache Spark Streaming and Apache Flink. Spark Streaming is still changing too often for my taste and does not seem as easy to connect to IoT data especially for students having limited experience with cloud computing. Interesting signal processing functions …
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    Chose IBM Streams (discontinued)
    Basically, I am building an IoT project. IBM cloud is a great platform for connecting all kinds of functions and make it work. To me, IBM Streams is just one of them. Any IoT project is custom made. So engineers have to think carefully how to use least resources to make the …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Streams (discontinued)
    The selection of a stream processing platform depends heavily on the details of the requirements. There is no one right answer for all situations. However, IBM Streams typically has the advantage when sub-millisecond latency is important, complex analytics need to be …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IBM Streams (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.7
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources9.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IBM Streams (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.6
    4 Ratings
    17% above category average
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
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    Simple transformations10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations9.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IBM Streams (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Data model creation8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging7.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IBM Streams (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.7
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
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    Integration with data quality tools10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IBM Streams (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
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    Ratings
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Real-Time Data Analysis00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Low Latency00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Data Enrichment00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
    Skyvia
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    Amazon Kinesis
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Information Server is extremely useful to replace manual developments that require a lot of coding effort. It significantly increases the productivity of the initial development and the future maintenance of the processes since it has a visual development environment with self-documentation.
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    Like the name says, it is good for streaming data and analyzing. It is great to look at tuples at a fast rate, filtering, calling other sources to enrich data, can call APIs, etc. Could do better for ingest use cases, can do better with guaranteed delivery, etc.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    IBM
    • IIS best for ETL ,not ELT , and many and diffrent source systems.
    • It also can process big data , unstuctured data
    • It is not only DWH , you can use infosphere for analys and see the bigger architecture of your OLTP systems
    Incentivized
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    • IBM Streams is well suited for providing wire-speed real-time end-to-end processing with sub-millisecond latency.
    • Streams is amazingly computationally efficient. In other words, you can typically do much more processing with a given amount of hardware than other technologies. In a recent linear-road benchmark Streams based application was able to provide greater capability than the Hadoop-based implementation using 10x less hardware. So even when latency isn't critical, using Streams might still make sense for reducing operational cost.
    • Streams comes out of the box with a large and comprehensive set of tested and optimized toolkits. Leveraging these toolkits not only reduces the development time and cost but also helps reduce project risk by eliminating the need for custom code which likely has not seen as much time in test or production.
    • In addition to the out of the box toolkits, there is an active developer community contributing additional specialized packages.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • I would be nice to have a new web development environment for DataStage.
    • Connectivity Packs such as Pack for SAP Application are a little pricey.
    • It is confusing for new developers the possibility of developing jobs using different execution engines such as Parallel or Server.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Documentation could be more extensive, with more examples, although overall this is not too bad compared to some of the alternative solutions.
    • Seems expensive to use in production.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    • Scale of implementation
    • IBM techsupport
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    DataStage is more robust and stable than ODI The ability to perform complex transformations or implement business rules is much more developed in DS
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    There are well explained tutorials to get the user started. If you are looking for business application ideas, the user community offers a diversity of applications. It is very easy to launch applications on the cloud and can integrate with other analytic tools available on Watson Studio. It takes away the burden of the technology so that users can focus on business innovations.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Productivity of the development of integration processes.
    • Better documentation and governance.
    • Reduce training costs of various technologies.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Ability to do more with less
    • Admins and data analyst can now focus on more thinking tasks
    • No negative impacts yet
    Incentivized
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