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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Snowflake

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Snowflake
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Snowflake
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Snowflake
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Snowflake Computing
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Snowflake
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of IBM Streams (discontinued) and Snowflake
    Feature
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Snowflake
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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)Snowflake
    Small Businesses
    Amazon Kinesis
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score5 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Snowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.8
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Snowflake
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
    • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
    • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
    • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
    • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
    • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
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    Snowflake Computing
    SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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    Usability
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    Snowflake Computing
    Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    Snowflake Computing
    We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    Snowflake Computing
    • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
    • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
    • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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