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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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IBM Event Streams Technical Details
| 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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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October 24, 2023
Worth the spend
- Analytics
- Reporting
- Onboarding
- Intuitive
- Documentation
October 12, 2023
Event based message using kafka
- 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.
October 07, 2023
Review IBM Event Streams
- IBM Event Streams reduce costs
- enhance service quality,
- Reduce the time that it takes to deliver your services to your customers.
- Need expertise resources to use this efficiently
- there is no such product knowledge articles in place that we can refer to in case of issues.
September 28, 2023
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- Timely reporting
- Accurate
- Easy to use
- better descriptions
- more options
- more user friendly
September 27, 2023
Smooth and easy onboarding
- It can be easily integrated also its based on kafka so everyone is on the same pace if we talk about using the programs
- handling massive traffic on day to day basis seamlessly
- In using downstreams
- Very limited capabilities out of the box
- The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing
May 22, 2023
Why choose IBM Event Streams
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Integrates well
- Based on Opensource software
- Client libraries and support is awesome
- Good documentation from IBM cloud on how to use it well
- It's better to have some more sample projects
December 27, 2022
IB Living the dream with Event Streams
- insight identification
- pattern recognition
- seamless cloud application
- not the easiest to answer
- more marketing adoption and use
- awareness
December 20, 2022
Reliable Event Streamer
- UI is great
- Apache Kafka
- handles large traffic very well
- Reliable and has less downtime
- Monitoring of traffic
- Reporting on traffic and events
December 18, 2022
Smoothest Apache Kafka
- It is adaptive and helps us create more engaging experiences on our platforms.
- The Key metrics dashboard is rich with insights.
- Even if you have experience with other event streaming software, you'll still have to take the IBM course because of its complexity.
October 23, 2022
Best software for events streaming.
- Ability to manage large traffic.
- Real-time event logs.
- Integration is smooth and easy.
- Need to improve user experience, specifically in dashboard area.
- Filter with 2nd dimensions is not useful.
September 09, 2021
Not a Kafkaesque UI
- UI is intuitive and easy to use.
- Apache Kafka has a great community.
- Being in the cloud is great.
- Monitoring capabilities are lacking for me; for example, I would like to have more visibility into queue depth.
May 18, 2021
Reliable Kafka service provided by IBM
- It scales very well.
- It can handle a lot of traffic.
- It can retain the events when our services have issues.
- Not easy to monitor broker status.
- Not easy to monitor traffic.
- Scaling topic partitions has downtime.
November 05, 2020
Make your organization more agile by using IBM Event Streams !
- 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.
February 14, 2019
Awesome IBM products
- Replay capability
- Message persistence
- High throughput
- Monitoring capabilities
- Visibility into topics
- Dashboard for visualization
February 13, 2019
IBM Event Streams - Emerging Candidate in Streaming Space
- 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.