IBM StreamSets vs. Spotfire Streaming

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM StreamSets
Score 8.0 out of 10
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IBM® StreamSets enables users to create and manage smart streaming data pipelines through a graphical interface, facilitating data integration across hybrid and multicloud environments. IBM StreamSets can support millions of data pipelines for analytics, applications and hybrid integration.N/A
Spotfire Streaming
Score 5.8 out of 10
N/A
The 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
IBM StreamSetsSpotfire Streaming
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM StreamSetsSpotfire Streaming
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
IBM StreamSetsSpotfire Streaming
Features
IBM StreamSetsSpotfire Streaming
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
IBM StreamSets
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Ratings
Spotfire Streaming
8.3
2 Ratings
3% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Low Latency00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
Machine Learning Automation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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IBM StreamSetsSpotfire Streaming
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Score 10.0 out of 10
IBM Streams (discontinued)
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.3 out of 10
IBM Streams (discontinued)
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM StreamSetsSpotfire Streaming
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(10 ratings)
5.7
(15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(9 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.5
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM StreamSetsSpotfire Streaming
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
IBM StreamSets excels in real-time logistics data ingestion and transformation across hybrid systems. It’s less ideal for lightweight ETL tasks or static datasets where simpler tools can achieve similar results with less overhead and complexity.
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Spotfire
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
IBM
  • It helps streaming huge data that we have in our Teradata database to various reporting applications that runs on cloud seamlessly.
  • We also use IBM StreamSets to power few BI dashboards that our product managers use on regular basis to showcase various data with clients.
  • I think the data quality is way better compared to Informatica tool.
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Spotfire
  • 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
IBM
  • The error messages I feel aren t always very descriptive so troubleshooting can take longer
  • Maybe more customisation options for scheduling can be done, rest it works pretty well.
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Spotfire
  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
IBM Stream sets has been a wonderful addition to our technology stack. It has helped in some of our initiatives such as data engineering, data integration for not only external customers but also for internal purposes. The tool has also helped on our use cases related to streaming data. Moving to another tool would require significant amount of work and time.
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Spotfire
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Usability
IBM
The StreamSets platform is very easy to use and the interface is extremely intuitive. The drag-and-drop, low-code design makes it accessible for teams with varying technical skills, allowing us to quickly connect sources, define transformations, and deploy pipelines without heavy coding. StreamSets allows us to get started quickly and not have to worry about our pipelines breaking once they're built.
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Spotfire
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
IBM
Streamsets support has improved a lot in the last couple of years. We had some challenges in the beginning with support, but now the quality of the support and the responsiveness to tickets are better. We have contacted support multiple times when it came to scenarios where the system was slow or the output as not as we expected
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Spotfire
Spotfire Streaming support is prompt and to the point. They help with best practices and learning from existing projects.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
I was not involved in the implementation
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Spotfire
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
First advantage is that this software is particularly new and it keeps updating according to the needs of the user. Other advantage is the it organises and produces conclusions on the basis of data without leaving any relevant information. Other softwares lack in data summarising and readability of the charts and sheets they produce.
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Spotfire
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
IBM
  • time saving for automatic collection and integration of data
  • time saving thanks to live monitoring and reaction
  • time saving for standardization of data
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Spotfire
  • 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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