IBM Streams Reviews

Vendor: IBM

4.1 out of 5

5 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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What is IBM Streams?

IBM Streams is an advanced analytic platform that allows user-developed applications to quickly ingest, analyze and correlate information as it arrives from thousands of data stream sources. The solution can handle very high data throughput rates, up to millions of events or messages per second. Streams helps you analyze data in motion, simplify development of streaming applications, and extend the value of existing systems.

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IBM Streams is the #18 ranked solution in Streaming Analytics tools. PeerSpot users give IBM Streams an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. IBM Streams is most commonly compared to Confluent: IBM Streams vs Confluent. IBM Streams is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 73% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 29% of all views.

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Ahmed_Emad

Territory Sales Leader at Sumerge

We have used Kafka for seven years. IBM streams gives you many OOTB features that can boost the time-to-market, especially when it comes to reporting and monitoring for example. Confluent is recognized as one of the leaders in this space and the main reason for this is related to the complete vision of the platform also the large number of connectors. This gives the edge and competitive advatnage.

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it_user701478

President

Back in 2009 when we started using Streams, there was nothing else like it and the alternative of implementing the capability from scratch would have been a very substantial undertaking. Since then, many commercial and open source offerings have entered the space with various levels and durations of acceptance. Depending on the requirements of the application, some of them may be an appropriate alternative. However, for my clients and use cases, Streams provides a unique combination of stability, reliability, capability, and performance. Although, I now have more potential alternatives for performing some of the overall processing pipeline, I still depend on Streams to handle much of the 'heavy lifting'.

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it_user700131

Global Product Development at a healthcare company

The price and versatility of this product need to improve - it is not inexpensive. Its a very elaborate product - we have a 10 seat installation in Singapore- but it cost $1M and was missing the ability to program in Python. This was highlighted by the fact that Vibhore, their lead engineer left to start Unscrambl, which does have the ability to program in Python, as well as provides a user interface that allows building Boolean search strings - and costs 1/2 or less.

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IBM Streams mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of IBM Streams in the Streaming Analytics category stands at 0.8%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

20%

Educational Organization

Healthcare Company

Media Company

Retailer

Real Estate/Law Firm

Government

Construction Company

Transportation Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Insurance Company

Legal Firm

Logistics Company

University

Non Profit

Security Firm

Non Tech Company

Consumer Goods Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Renewables & Environment Company

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Learn more about IBM Streams

IBM Streams was previously known as IBM InfoSphere Streams.

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IBM Streams customers

Globo TV, All England Lawn Tennis Club, CenterPoint Energy, Consolidated Communications Holdings, Darwin Ecosystem, Emory University Hospital, ICICI Securities, Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT), Living Roads, Mobileum, Optibus, Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP), University of Alberta, University of Montana, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Wimbledon 2015