IBM Streams (discontinued) vs. Lenses.io

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Lenses.io
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Lenses.io delivers a developer workspace for building & operating real-time applications on any Apache Kafka. By enabling teams to monitor, investigate,N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
IBM Streams (discontinued)Lenses.io
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
IBM Streams (discontinued)
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
Lenses.io
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Ratings
Real-Time Data Analysis8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Low Latency7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Machine Learning Automation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enrichment7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
IBM Streams (discontinued)Lenses.io
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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User Testimonials
IBM Streams (discontinued)Lenses.io
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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ScreenShots

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