Item: Spotfire Streaming
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for real-time processing of logs and sudo-logs (records created in a database table are fed in real-time to a Spotfire Streaming app). We have apps to monitor the performance of our infrastructure, our processes, and catching fraudulent activity.

Pros and Cons

Windowing and aggregation
Ease the UI tool (SBStudio) to create apps which means much faster turn around than coding
Tools for debugging
App to app communication
Fantastic support

Not sure it can handle sliding windows and watermark for late arrivals of data (after the window is closed)

Return on Investment

Efficient development
Expensive, though excellent, support
Ability to create custom components for our specific irregular process requirement

Alternatives Considered

Dataflow

We are using Dataflow (by Google).The development time in Spotfire Streaming is definitely shorter because its GUI based. Dataflow handles late arrivals after the window closes, not sure Spotfire Streaming can do that. Dataflow can run GCP as a managed service which is why we chose that tool for our new product.

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited very well for real-time processing. Problem is one needs to either write an adapter or pay for an adapter component to consume logs from some sources like Kafka. It doesn't come as part of the package unless you pay for it separately.

Training Types Used

Self-taught

Spotfire Streaming Review

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire Streaming