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IBM Event Streams

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What is IBM Event Streams?

IBM Event Streams is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, event streaming solution. Powered by Apache Kafka, it provides access to enterprise data through event streams, enabling businesses to unlock insights from historical data, and identify and take action on situations in real…

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Recent Reviews

Worth the spend

8 out of 10
October 24, 2023
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Critical within our sales process and tracking ROI for marketing advertisement campaigns. We use it to ensure our data is accurate and …
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Why choose IBM Event Streams

9 out of 10
May 22, 2023
We used IBM Event stream as a part of data analysis pipeline. We would ingest data into Event stream and then fan out to different …
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Reliable Event Streamer

8 out of 10
December 20, 2022
Incentivized
We have started using IBM Event Streams to solve multiple problems in our organizations, in which most important is fraud analytics, so …
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Smoothest Apache Kafka

8 out of 10
December 18, 2022
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We use IBM Event Streams at Call Copy to build smart apps for events. We also engage event streams to act as a buffer for connecting our …
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Not a Kafkaesque UI

6 out of 10
September 09, 2021
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IBM Event Streams allows my cloud-focused team within my hosting-focused web development company to move an Apache Kafka-based pub/sub …
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Awesome IBM products

7 out of 10
February 14, 2019
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Message Hub is used to persist and transfer the operations domain data. It's being used to replay the data from a certain point in the …
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Product Details

What is IBM Event Streams?

IBM Event Streams is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant, event streaming solution. Powered by Apache Kafka, it provides access to enterprise data through event streams, enabling businesses to unlock insights from historical data, and identify and take action on situations in real time and at scale.

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IBM Event Streams Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUnites States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese/Brazil, Spanish, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional

Frequently Asked Questions

Confluent, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) are common alternatives for IBM Event Streams.

Reviewers rate Ease of integration highest, with a score of 7.8.

The most common users of IBM Event Streams are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used it in two cases, and it went pretty good with both. We used it for analytics and logging alongside event-based communication between different tech-stacks.

One thing that users need to keep in mind is that it has a limited knowledgebase and will need a good understanding of Kafka to use it efficiently. So choose it carefully and when its needed.
October 07, 2023

Review IBM Event Streams

Engr Aijaz Ali Khushk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reporting and Monitoring of traffic and events and better user experience.IBM Event Streams Event-driven architectures and event streams can work in conjunction to give your business a better ability to react to events in real time. need expertise resources to use this efficiently. In using downstream, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, which makes us feel that there are no upgrades, and other than that there's poor marketing of the product. I hope it reaches more customers.
September 27, 2023

Smooth and easy onboarding

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Useful for: On-prem IIB to cloud solution integration in conjunction with Secure Gateway Based on Kafka, has a lot of positive sentiments among customers.
In using downstreams, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, which makes us feel that there's no upgrades and other than that there's poor marketing of the product
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We felt that it's best for asynchronous processing of data. Managing a Kafka server is hard and time consuming, IBM cloud's Event stream is well suited for teams who don't want to manage their own server and use a fully managed solution instead. We didn't face any issue with our use case though.
December 20, 2022

Reliable Event Streamer

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is well suited for event architecture, when things and decisions are real time and those decisions have some serious impact, so to provide better customer experience, we can use this as we found using it more reliable and less downtime than our previous self developed architecture. It is able to handle load well and queue requests when system is not working.
December 18, 2022

Smoothest Apache Kafka

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used IBM Event Streams to connect to critical systems in our company. We have also utilized it to provide wider event streams connectivity for our clients. IBM Event Streams is very suitable for sending events from native environments to appliances and critical workloads seamlessly. Events streams is impressive because deployment is not only limited to IBM cloud but can also work on Red Hat.
September 09, 2021

Not a Kafkaesque UI

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are running an application that requires pub/sub capabilities like Apache Kafka and you want to run the pub /sub in the IBM cloud, then I think that this may be an appropriate technology choice for you. As there are comparable products in other cloud providers, it is worthwhile to consider the business externalities of your choice of cloud providers and choose the one that makes the most sense from that perspective.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Event Streams is good for use cases like live streaming or event processing. It can process events with very high throughput. Partitioning gives the user the power to scale up or down when necessary. It can also be used as the communication interface for different clouds.
Hanz van Aardt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Event Streams is well suited for companies developing event driven Microservices. One of the biggest challenger with microservices is that your data gets distributed into little silos - event streaming (or better known as event sourcing) allows you to get a central source of truth in your event store. We are taking this approach with IBM Event Streams and it is well suited for building an event streaming / sourcing architecture.
February 14, 2019

Awesome IBM products

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Excellent for messaging with tons of data. It's highly reliable, scalable and resilient. It's an excellent option for clients that look to get away from point-point messaging and the overhead that comes with it. It enables clients to have power to choose as little or as much data as they wish to.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is well suited for: Event streaming backed with all the enterprise applications with basic data formats. Connectivity with existing MQ infrastructure. Adopting the legacy skills of resources, native clients using Java can connect seamlessly. Multi-data Center streaming use cases.
Not Suited for: Handling different data formats, Kafka Connect sink & source connectors to connect with HDFS, Databases etc, Schema registry, Non-Java Client Connectivity.

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