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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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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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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Unites States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany |
| Supported Languages | English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese/Brazil, Spanish, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional |
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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 Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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October 12, 2023
Event based message using kafka
Our primary implementations covered two user cases: 1. Analytics implementation to keep eye on the traffic flow & logs coming from users to help identify the problems in shorter time and make decisions for improvements. 2. Use of event transmission between different types of technologies and stacks that are usually not easily embeddable with each other.
- based on Kafka and open source so you can tailor it to your need
- better integration with Apache applications
- best for analyzing events and logs
- documentation and knowledge base
- insights for users by giving examples how it can be used
- improved marketing and product visibility will help for convincing more clients. A lot of them never heard of it and are hesitant to adopt.
- Easy monitoring based on logs to detect downtimes.
- Find bugs/ areas of improvements on client end.
- identify traffic patterns.
November 05, 2020
Make your organization more agile by using IBM Event Streams !
Our company is currently in the process of implementing a messaging system - we develop event driven Microservices and needed an event streaming system based on Kafka which can address our needs. I reviewed IBM Event Streams and it is a great option. Event streams allows us to permanently store changes to domain objects in the form of events - the changes are then made available to various other services where they are materialized into certain solutions like Analytics, AI etc.
- IBM Event Streams offers a Lite tier which makes it incredible easy to get started.
- IBM Event Streams allows you to permanents persist / log events.
- Other back-end services can subscribe to events the want to consume.
- It will be great if the KSQL setup or some other type of stream manipulation technology comes bundled with IBM Event Streams.
- Currently we service the African region as well and we would love a region in South Africa.
- IBM Event Stream is surprisingly easy to get started with by providing a free Lite tier. This makes it easy to adopt.
- At this point we are in the development phase so it's too early to speculate on long term costs but IBM Event Streams certainly has an excellent offering with great cost analysis tools which we will make use of as things progress.
We evaluated Confluent Cloud, Amazon MSK and self managed Kafka. Overall IBM Event Streams has the best documentation and the team backing it up has deep technical knowledge and advice.
February 13, 2019
IBM Event Streams - Emerging Candidate in Streaming Space
We have performed an evaluation of IBM Event Streams for Event Streaming & Analytics. The idea is to use the Event Streams across the enterprise as an event streaming platform. We are still in the evaluation phase and trying to solve the problems of event-based streaming from different kinds of applications across the enterprise for real-time analytics of data.
- Seamless integration with existing MQ infrastructure.
- Basically uses the Core Kafka Framework.
- Geo-Replication.
- Dashboard for Topics management and analytics.
- Provide Capabilities to connect the Event Streams via REST Proxy.
- Schema Registry to handle Avro Formats.
- Provide Kafka Connect Sink & Source Connectors.
- Development & uptime is much quicker.
- Could seamlessly connect Native Java Clients, so no custom logic is needed.
- Non-Java Clients are not seamlessly connected.
We are still in the evaluation process. To enable an event streaming platform for enterprise, IBM Event Streams is a strong candidate due to the ease of use and setup in the cloud. There are many capabilities we are trying to understand to see if IBM Event Streams is the right fit for our needs. I would rate its platform behind Confluent Cloud.