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IBM Event Streams - Emerging Candidate in Streaming Space
February 13, 2019

IBM Event Streams - Emerging Candidate in Streaming Space

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Event Streams (formerly Message Hub)

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.
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.