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IBM Streams (discontinued) vs. Spotfire Streaming

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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

    Spotfire Streaming

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AThe Spotfire Streaming (formerly TIBCO Streaming or StreamBase) platform is a high-performance system for rapidly building applications that analyze and act on real-time streaming data. Using Spotfire Streaming, users can rapidly build real-time systems and deploy them at a fraction of the cost and risk of other alternatives.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
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    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of IBM Streams (discontinued) and Spotfire Streaming
    Feature
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Spotfire Streaming
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Real-Time Data Analysis8.05 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards10.05 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.05 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Low Latency7.93 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools8.04 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation8.04 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation9.05 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Data Enrichment7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
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    IBM Streams (discontinued)Spotfire Streaming
    Small Businesses
    Amazon Kinesis
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Amazon Kinesis
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Enterprises
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score5 out of 10
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Spotfire Streaming
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    5.0
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Spotfire Streaming
    Likelihood to Recommend
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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.
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    Taking data from various sources including files, databases, web services, applying some complex rules, transforming, aggregating and producing a result. This is what Spotfire Streaming does best.
    - If one needs connectivity to special services as secured databases or web services, building interactive web apps, those are probably tasks that shall be addressed with different tools.
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    Pros
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    • Processing events in real-time with real low latency and high throughput.
    • 100% visual program language, which can be extended by common languages like Java, Python and .NET.
    • Reduced time to prototype, create an application and deployment, which reduces the software lifecycle.
    • Real robust engine and server. Barely heard of customers having issues in production.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    • Being a niche tool, there's not much community support
    • It is on prem, making it slow to boot. not cloud native (It could be that it is our org's issue)
    • The dev environment is very tough to understand for large projects due to the wire style UI/UX
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    Usability
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    Cloud Software Group
    The usability is good in terms that it gets well integrated with the Spotfire suite but the only few issues I have is the tough UI/UX (learning curve, if the project is huge) and unable to find many users and devs to help with the queries. At the end it is solely based on the documentation provided which is never enough
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    Support Rating
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    Cloud Software Group
    Spotfire Streaming support is prompt and to the point. They help with best practices and learning from existing projects.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    We are using Dataflow (by Google).The development time in Spotfire Streaming is definitely shorter because its GUI based. Dataflow handles late arrivals after the window closes, not sure Spotfire Streaming can do that. Dataflow can run GCP as a managed service which is why we chose that tool for our new product.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    • While we haven't specifically integrated Spotfire Streaming into our product development, it has allowed us to see the benefits of real-time streaming data.
    • We have much more visibility into how our longer term roadmap will look and what we should focus on.
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