IBM Streams (discontinued)

Overview
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IBM Streams (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
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A 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
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IBM Streams (discontinued)
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IBM Streams (discontinued)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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IBM Streams (discontinued)
Features
IBM Streams (discontinued)
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
IBM Streams (discontinued)
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis8.00 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards10.00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.00 Ratings
Low Latency7.90 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools8.00 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation8.00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out7.70 Ratings
Machine Learning Automation9.00 Ratings
Data Enrichment7.00 Ratings
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IBM Streams (discontinued)
Small Businesses
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User Ratings
IBM Streams (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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User Testimonials
IBM Streams (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Streams is a good fit for situations requiring low end-to-end latency, have complex real-time analytical processing needs on large fast data, or where the reduction of operational costs is important. However, it is very much a data-in-motion technology and not well suited for situations such as some forms of machine learning where the entire historical data set needs to be operated on. Note that it's fairly common to use Streams to perform online scoring using models that were trained offline using other technologies.
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Pros
  • Query analysis of real time streaming data
  • Filter out events based on time windows
  • Scalability for large scale data, production tested
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Cons
  • 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.
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Alternatives Considered
We are using Spark streaming as well as Storm for streaming options. Currently streams provides a better way of building applications easier faster and run efficiently. Also like the flexibility it provides with both us and SPL.
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Return on Investment
  • Ability to do more with less
  • Admins and data analyst can now focus on more thinking tasks
  • No negative impacts yet
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