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    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

    Lenses.io

    N/AN/ALenses.io delivers a developer workspace for building & operating real-time applications on any Apache Kafka. By enabling teams to monitor, investigate,N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Lenses.io
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    Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Lenses.io
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of IBM Streams (discontinued) and Lenses.io
    Feature
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Lenses.io
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    Ratings
    Real-Time Data Analysis8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low Latency7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Enrichment7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
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    IBM Streams (discontinued)Lenses.io
    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
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Lenses.io
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Streams (discontinued)Lenses.io
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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.
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    Lenses.io
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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.
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    Lenses.io
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    Cons
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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.
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    Lenses.io
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    Lenses.io
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    Lenses.io
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    Lenses.io Screenshots

    Screenshot of Kafka Topics - Browse metadata and payload across Kafka streams and Elastic indices by offset, timestamp or SQL. Protected by data role-based security and data anonymization rules. Accessible via Web, CLI, API and SQL Driver.Screenshot of Schema Registry - Schema RegistryScreenshot of SQL Processors  - Deploy and run SQL-based real time applications over any Kafka Connect or Kubernetes infrastructure including AWS EKSScreenshot of Data Masking - Meet data compliance by obfuscating real time data across Kafka and ElasticSearch infrastructure with Data Policies rulesScreenshot of Topology - View topology of apps and flows, including external Go/Python/.Net/Java applications. Perfect for knowing what's out there, data lineage and troubleshooting