Simple and Quick
Updated October 01, 2025

Simple and Quick

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM StreamSets

We use IBM StreamSets as one of our ETL products. We use it for a lot of transformations and sourcing data from various heterogenous systems. We mainly moved to IBM StreamSets so as to move from our traditional batch process of data aggregation to real time data aggregation. We also use this for streaming data. IBM StreamSets comes with a lot of inbuilt connectors that help with the development of integrations more seamlessly

Pros

  • Stream Data
  • Transformation
  • Realtime data aggregations

Cons

  • Error reporting
  • Java
  • Upgrade issues
  • Reduced development time
  • Quicker turn around time
  • Citizen user empowerment
I gave this rating because of the out of the box connectors that comes with IBM StreamSets. There are connectors for most of the sources as well as for the destinations. This includes both RDBMS as well unstructured data sources. The areas where IBM StreamSets have challenges is trouble shooting. The error message that is provided is not straightforward. Since it uses Java on the backend the error message is always cryptic. Memory usage is also a hit or miss. Need some specific server tunning activities to optimize the tool.
IBM StreamSets works well when compared to some of the other tools in the same category. They are easy to set up, development can be fast paced as the in-built / out of the box connectors that come along with the product.

Do you think IBM StreamSets delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM StreamSets's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM StreamSets live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM StreamSets go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM StreamSets again?

Yes

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Apache Airflow
IBM StreamSets is well suited for streaming data, close to real time data aggregations use cases. Comes with multiple built in connectors and transformations that reduces the development effort and time. There are connectors for majority of the cloud providers. They also have connectors for the destinations which include a lot of the new era of databases.

Using IBM StreamSets

20 - They represents teams like Business Intelligence, Power users for Accounting and Finance. The tools is also used by data engineers to create real time data transfer pipelines and also to source streaming data. This is also used by the Integration team for managing and monitoring file transfer across various environments.
5 - We have a dedicated team of 5 members who supports the Stream sets environment. Their role includes checking for routine error logs and planning on the maintenance side of the environment. This includes patching and periodic restarts and well checking the various parameters like memory usage, heap size for better performance.
  • Data Integrations
  • Real Time Streaming Data
  • Data warehousing
  • Analytics
  • EDI
  • API
  • XML
  • B2B
  • B2C
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.

Evaluating IBM StreamSets and Competitors

Yes - We replaced our previous data integration tool from Oracle using Stream sets. IBM Stream sets comes with a lot of source connectors and destination connectors which are easily configurable when compared to other tools that we have used in the past. Error logging and work flows seems to be better in this tool when compared with others in the past
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
Integration with our current technology stack was one our key decision makers. Implementation time was another reason. The ease of learning also affected the adoption rate. The possibility of using this tools to teams outside of core IT was another reason for going with this tool. This being a SaaS solution helped with the easy adoption as no specific tools needs to be installed on users workstations.
I dont think we would be have to do another round of evaluation and selection process.

IBM StreamSets Implementation

I was not involved in the implementation
  • Implemented in-house
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
  • Migrating pipelines

IBM StreamSets Support

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
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
No we did not purchase premium support. We felt that the costs was a bit higher
We have had scenarios when an existing data pipeline that worked without any issues in the past suddenly started failing. Since this was related to our EDI B2B transaction, the failures meant a huge impact to our business. IBM streamset support was able to guide us and help us to fix the issue there by supporting business continuity.

Using IBM StreamSets

ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
None
  • connectors
  • Error handling
  • Trouble shooting errors
  • Reading Error stacks

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