Spotfire Streaming Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6.6 out of 10

Score

6.6 out of 10

Reviews

14 Reviews

A well designed tool for processing real-time streams

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used for real-time processing and monitoring of operational data used by different users/departments.

Pros

Handles complex transformations. It offers components/tools that cover a wide variety of use cases. Everytime it seemed we hit the wall, wee discovered that there is something that is offered that takes care of our need.
Ease of use
Performance
Excellent support

Cons

More variety of examples in the documentation

Likelihood to Recommend

For real-time processing, it very well suited. It connects to many different data sources, and if there is a source that is not yet available, using their custom component one can build a connector/adapter easily. Their support is excellent and helps with any issues and questions in a very timely manner.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Event Streaming platform built right

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 22, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm building a stock trading/securities trading solution using Spotfire Streaming for one of our local customers. We have also built a solution around a stock trading platform which can be readily used by any Indian Stock Broking firm(s). The solution along with other Spotfire and non-Spotfire technologies thrives to achieve millisecond-level latency to beat the industry stalwarts.

Pros

Event Streaming Capabilties
Low level latency
Improved Java - JRE for the best performance
UML Like coding which reduces dependency on hard-core developers
Hundreds of connectivity options by way of providing adapters. Building custom adapters are also easy.
Provides industry standards and scientific functions out of the box.

Cons

A web-based UI for canvas
Hot deploy available out of the box
Tighter web-service coupling
Deploying on docker/kubernetes containers

Likelihood to Recommend

Suitable: 1) Stock Trading, 2) Gaming, 3) Reasoning Skills, 4) IoT Integrations, 5) RealTime monitoring, 6) Gambling, 7) Vehicle/Traffic Monitoring solutions can easily be built with Spotfire Streaming Less Appropriate: 1) Solutions which can't execute on lower footprint like Raspberry Pi 2) Dynamic Rules where business changes are on-demand or frequent. 3) Cost is a huge factor in decision 4) Process Monitoring solutions are less appropriate for Spotfire Streaming usage.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Spotfire Streaming Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 19, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire Streaming is used in a variety of aspects of the business. It is used in front office trading, to middle office reporting, to back-office data processing and aggregation.

Pros

Spotfire Streaming is best at rapid prototyping
Real time market data processing and signal generation
Processing table based data

Cons

Cannot achieve ultra low latency
Great for small applications, but does not scale elegantly
Makes multithreading easy, but does not allow fine controls

Likelihood to Recommend

Spotfire Streaming is great at rapid prototyping. This can be a great tool for analysts without an in-depth programming background and allows them to quickly write efficient programs.

Verified User

Engineer in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Using Spotfire Streaming in banking for real time data processing

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 18, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire Streaming is being used by our foreign exchange department for data processing, real-time pricing, and risk management.

Pros

Spotfire Streaming does well for real-time data processing. It is easy and fast to build a robust application. Developers can focus on business logic and don't have to worry regular programming details.

Cons

Lack of security control for sbc connection

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for back end data processing. It is less appropriate for any UI application.

Sonny Zhang, CFA

Associate Director in Finance and Accounting at Scotiabank (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Powerful and reliable tool.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 16, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organisation uses Spotfire Streaming as an offering to clients who require it in their solution. The business problems we use Spotfire Streaming to address would be to process complex and large sets of business rules.

Pros

Simple GUI allows easy visual/drag-and-drop programming
Handles complex and large amounts of business rules well
Ability to deal with large amounts of data processing from large inputs

Cons

Customising each drag and drop element is hard to use as the GUI controls for the element settings are vague
A more navigable customisation GUI for the elements would allow easy/intuitive out-of-box use without the need to consult the help/manuals.

Likelihood to Recommend

Large amounts of business rules, data and high level of business rule complexity.

Verified User

Analyst in Engineering (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

A RAD system to boost your back-end data processing

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 16, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company uses Spotfire Streaming on a few projects. We employee it mainly as a back-end development tool. The processes we set up with it perform data transformations and feed our analytics dashboards.

Pros

This is a rapid development tool that spares us days of raw coding.
It is very easy to access external data sources, filter, aggregate and expose the result back.
Multi-threading features, memory and CPU utilizations are exceptional

Cons

Despite Spotfire Streaming allows writing custom adapters, it is very difficult to manage third party library dependencies. None of the major dependency tools are supported, and one should manage that manually.
The security and authorization system implemented in Spotfire Streaming is not extensible and does not fit out of the box our needs
The system designs was not built with modularization and generalization in mind, hence it is difficult to build reusable modules.
Logging system is harder to manage, compared to plain j4log implementations.

Likelihood to Recommend

Taking data from various sources including files, databases, web services, applying some complex rules, transforming, aggregating and producing a result. This is what Spotfire Streaming does best.

- If one needs connectivity to special services as secured databases or web services, building interactive web apps, those are probably tasks that shall be addressed with different tools.

Lyubomir Simeonov

Senior Developer in Information Technology at Morgan Stanley (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Spotfire Streaming Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 15, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for real-time processing of logs and sudo-logs (records created in a database table are fed in real-time to a Spotfire Streaming app). We have apps to monitor the performance of our infrastructure, our processes, and catching fraudulent activity.

Pros

Windowing and aggregation
Ease the UI tool (SBStudio) to create apps which means much faster turn around than coding
Tools for debugging
App to app communication
Fantastic support

Cons

Not sure it can handle sliding windows and watermark for late arrivals of data (after the window is closed)

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited very well for real-time processing. Problem is one needs to either write an adapter or pay for an adapter component to consume logs from some sources like Kafka. It doesn't come as part of the package unless you pay for it separately.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Spotfire Streaming Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 12, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used by several teams across different departments. Unique use cases for each time. Mine is to process market data events.

Pros

many adapters for other technologies
short time to market
runs in jvm

Cons

hard to optimize fo low latency
no fine grained threading controls
hard to diff changes

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for event processing that is not latency sensitive. Not as well suited for an application that requires fine-grained thread controls or low latency.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Managerial feedback from the R&D team

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 1, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire Streaming has helped us understand the world and benefits of streaming data. It's difficult to comprehend just how you can use this kind of information until you have it at your fingertips.

Pros

The baked-in adapters let us get started quickly with several different datasources.
The development team enjoyed the built in dev platform.
The Spotfire community is a great resource for both getting started and getting deeper into Spotfire Streaming functionality.

Cons

EventFlow could use some iteration, but is a good starting point.

Likelihood to Recommend

High volume, consistent data flow is perfectly suited for Spotfire Streaming. If you're looking for a larger, long-time trend visualization, you probably want to stick with vanilla Spotfire.

Verified User

Team Lead in Quality Assurance (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Visually engaging and minimal time and effort to use.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 27, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire Streaming is being used by multiple departments in our company. We use it to cater our needs of processing large amounts of streamed events, which are generated by our business. It allows us to implements sophisticated logic to process an enormous amount of transaction data that is generated by multiple streams throughout the company. The graphical user interface to create the event flow is very easy to use with a minimal learning curve.

Pros

Real-time event processing minimizes time to market and saves the time and processing power to process a large amount of data being streamed.
Easy to use and user-friendly GUI enables a business user to directly test and apply business logic.
Great value and highly scalable.

Cons

So far, Spotfire Streaming has always been able to answer all of our needs to analyze a data stream.

Likelihood to Recommend

Spotfire Streaming is suitable for real-time high throughput data stream, although it allows the user to process large flat file data. However, it is not recommended due to I/O overhead to read the text file.

Johanes Siregar

Big Data Analytics - Data Engineer in Information Technology at Telkomsel (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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