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Google Cloud Dataflow vs. IBM Streams (discontinued)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Dataflow

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGoogle offers Cloud Dataflow, a managed streaming analytics platform for real-time data insights, fraud detection, and other purposes.N/A

    IBM Streams (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AA real-time analytics solution that turns fast-moving volumes and varieties into insights. Streams evaluates a broad range of streaming data — unstructured text, video, audio, geospatial and sensor. The product was sunsetted in 2024.N/A
    Pricing
    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Google Cloud Dataflow and IBM Streams (discontinued)
    Feature
    Google Cloud Dataflow
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Real-Time Data Analysis8.01 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources8.01 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Low Latency8.01 Ratings7.93 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out7.01 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation7.01 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Data Enrichment7.01 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
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    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Amazon Kinesis
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Amazon Kinesis
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Confluent
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Confluent
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score6.6 out of 10
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score6.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Based on my experience, streaming / real time / machine learning / AI type of processing and batch processing which needs less transformation are very well suited. Work load that needs complex transformation / multiple hops gets very complicated to implement. New feature like Dataflow SQL option will come in handy for sql heavy users.
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    Like the name says, it is good for streaming data and analyzing. It is great to look at tuples at a fast rate, filtering, calling other sources to enrich data, can call APIs, etc. Could do better for ingest use cases, can do better with guaranteed delivery, etc.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Google
    • Streaming, Real time work load
    • Batch processing
    • Auto scaling
    • flexible pricing
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    • IBM Streams is well suited for providing wire-speed real-time end-to-end processing with sub-millisecond latency.
    • Streams is amazingly computationally efficient. In other words, you can typically do much more processing with a given amount of hardware than other technologies. In a recent linear-road benchmark Streams based application was able to provide greater capability than the Hadoop-based implementation using 10x less hardware. So even when latency isn't critical, using Streams might still make sense for reducing operational cost.
    • Streams comes out of the box with a large and comprehensive set of tested and optimized toolkits. Leveraging these toolkits not only reduces the development time and cost but also helps reduce project risk by eliminating the need for custom code which likely has not seen as much time in test or production.
    • In addition to the out of the box toolkits, there is an active developer community contributing additional specialized packages.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Google
    • inbuild template options can be expanded
    • more data connector options
    • easy of use
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    • Documentation could be more extensive, with more examples, although overall this is not too bad compared to some of the alternative solutions.
    • Seems expensive to use in production.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Cloud Dataproc Cloud Datafusion
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    Discontinued Products
    There are well explained tutorials to get the user started. If you are looking for business application ideas, the user community offers a diversity of applications. It is very easy to launch applications on the cloud and can integrate with other analytic tools available on Watson Studio. It takes away the burden of the technology so that users can focus on business innovations.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • cost saving from managing our own data center for ETL servers
    • consumption based pricing
    • with auto scaling feature, we were able to expand components to support work load
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    Discontinued Products
    • Ability to do more with less
    • Admins and data analyst can now focus on more thinking tasks
    • No negative impacts yet
    Incentivized
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