IBM Streams (discontinued) vs. Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Streams (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
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A 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
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
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
IBM Streams (discontinued)
8.3
5 Ratings
3% above category average
Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight
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Ratings
Real-Time Data Analysis8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Low Latency7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Machine Learning Automation9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enrichment7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
IBM Streams (discontinued)Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight
Small Businesses
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis
Score 9.6 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Confluent
Confluent
Score 9.2 out of 10
Confluent
Confluent
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 5.3 out of 10
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 5.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Streams (discontinued)Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(9 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Streams (discontinued)Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
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.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • 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
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  • 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.
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Alternatives Considered
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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.
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Microsoft
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Return on Investment
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  • Ability to do more with less
  • Admins and data analyst can now focus on more thinking tasks
  • No negative impacts yet
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