Astro by Astronomer vs. IBM StreamSets

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Astro by Astronomer
Score 10.0 out of 10
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For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, a data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code. Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow™, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded more than 8 million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world.N/A
IBM StreamSets
Score 8.2 out of 10
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IBM® StreamSets enables users to create and manage smart streaming data pipelines through a graphical interface, facilitating data integration across hybrid and multicloud environments. IBM StreamSets can support millions of data pipelines for analytics, applications and hybrid integration.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Astronomer, Inc.
Astronomer is well suited for workflow and dependency management for enterprise-level data lakes. It is not a product for data processing though. Different source systems can be integrated, it also provides powerful interfaces for alerting and monitoring. Easy to build DAGs, graphical UI, API support makes the product more user-friendly as well. Astronomer also does a great job on user training.
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IBM
When you are dealing with a data warehouse and want to find an easy way to integrate applications and expose data in real-time, then IBM StreamSets is the best tool to go for. I'm using it for the same purpose in my applications. This tool will be well-suited for someone with a proper technical background. Though IBM StreamSets UI is mostly drag and drop, advanced configurations require technical expertise or support to do the initial setup.
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Pros
Astronomer, Inc.
  • Workflow management
  • Wide availability of plugins
  • Dependency management on upstream
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IBM
  • It makes building data pipelines quite super intuitive even for non coders.
  • Ir also handles real time data ingestion effortlessly so I always have up to date information for my reports.
  • It's great at monitoring data quality as well.
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Cons
Astronomer, Inc.
  • More language agnostic
  • Flexible fork and join capabilities
  • Near real time UI updates in case of deployment of enhanced DAGs
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IBM
  • Where the person's skillsets in data analysis is not of an expert.
  • Data monitoring and analysis.
  • Customer data for better customer acquisition
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Likelihood to Renew
Astronomer, Inc.
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IBM
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.
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Usability
Astronomer, Inc.
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IBM
The StreamSets platform is very easy to use and the interface is extremely intuitive. The drag-and-drop, low-code design makes it accessible for teams with varying technical skills, allowing us to quickly connect sources, define transformations, and deploy pipelines without heavy coding. StreamSets allows us to get started quickly and not have to worry about our pipelines breaking once they're built.
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Support Rating
Astronomer, Inc.
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IBM
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
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Implementation Rating
Astronomer, Inc.
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IBM
I was not involved in the implementation
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Alternatives Considered
Astronomer, Inc.
Astronomer is a fast, secure, scalable workload management solution. It provides world-class user training along with easy to interact support.
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IBM
the IBM solution can be considered a good player in the specific perimeter of application because its main functionalities are working well, are easy to use, and complete. it allows also a good degree of freedom when it comes to personalization of pipelines and streams, and customization of data ingestion methodologies.
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Return on Investment
Astronomer, Inc.
  • It helps to build scalable, available and low maintenance workloads
  • Integrated Alerts and notifications helps to detect load issues in the early stages
  • Ensures meeting data SLAs
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IBM
  • it reduced the time I spent managing and updating pipelines when data formats changed
  • it saved us from building everything from scratch by making data movement between systems easier
  • it helps scale workflows as data volume grows, without much extra effort
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