IBM Streams vs. TIBCO BusinessEvents

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Streams
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 — helping organizations spot opportunities and risks as they happen. Its Eclipse-based, visual IDE lets solution architects visually build applications or use familiar programming languages like Java™, Scala or Python. Data engineers can connect with virtually any data source — whether…N/A
TIBCO BusinessEvents
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Enterprises are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of events that occur continuously. Hidden amongst them can be stalled business processes, opportunities for value creation, potential fraud, dissatisfied customers, failing equipment, and more. TIBCO BusinessEvents® proactively identifies these critical events, responds intelligently in real-time to navigate the fast-moving business environments and optimize outcomes. Decision-making in businesses requires a comprehensive…N/A
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Features
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Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
IBM Streams
8.3
5 Ratings
3% above category average
TIBCO BusinessEvents
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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 StreamsTIBCO BusinessEvents
Small Businesses
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis
Score 8.0 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Confluent
Confluent
Score 7.4 out of 10
Confluent
Confluent
Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 7.9 out of 10
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 7.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM StreamsTIBCO BusinessEvents
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(9 ratings)
7.2
(13 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM StreamsTIBCO BusinessEvents
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
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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TIBCO Software Inc.
TIBCO BusinessEvents is part of the CEP (Complex Event Processing) family, this means that it fits perfectly in all those scenarios where a correlation between incoming events is required. Where a stateful process is necessary. It does not fit well for a kind of Process Orchestrator scope, where simple events are coming in, and there is a well-defined behavior the system, would have on incoming request, and no particular reason to use a rule engine and its complexity. Anyway, there are particular cases where BusinessEvents would be a good actor in orchestrating a portion of CEP solutions activities
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Pros
IBM
  • 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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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • It allows us to build rule-based model-driven application, to collect, filter, analyze, correlate various business events in our real-time event flow
  • It makes various business applications/components easy to integrate (loosely decoupled but chained via the events flow) together
  • Its distributed rule engine and embedded in-memory data grid (ActiveSpace) gives us a lot of flexibility and room to play with a large amount of rules and data with high performance
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Cons
IBM
  • 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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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • Better integration with R versions and better debug for R-scripts in Spotfire. There are inconsistencies in syntactic expressions accepted by R-studio and not accepted in Spotfire. Accelerating the debug would be awesome. Having a command like View (data frame) that directly output in the dashboard would be a great accelerator.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
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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TIBCO Software Inc.
I was not part of evaluation of the products in this space in my organization. But I feel BE is better in terms of RIO if compared with some commercial products from Orcle, IBM and SAP. I strongly feel difficulty in using cloud native features is one big shortcoming in current product offering. This will tend customer like us to explore options that are well suited with ur cloud first vision.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • 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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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • Positive : Real-time event stream processing helps handle transactions very efficiently.
  • Negative : Earlier versions of BE (5.0 & 5.1) had major issues in data handling in cache that impacted the data integrity of the application.
  • Positive : Decision Tables are a huge plus in TIBCO BE.
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