Apache Spark Streaming vs SAS Event Stream Processing comparison

Apache and SAS are both solutions in the Streaming Analytics category. Apache is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.2, while SAS is ranked #27. Apache holds a 2.9% mindshare in SA, compared to SAS’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SAS users who would recommend it.

Apache Spark Streaming

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91% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Apache Spark Streaming

Ranking in Streaming Analytics

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAS Event Stream Processing

Ranking in Streaming Analytics

27th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Streaming Analytics category, the mindshare of Apache Spark Streaming is 2.9%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Event Stream Processing is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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AbhishekGupta

Engineering Leader at Walmart

Easy integration, beneficial auto-scaling, and good open-sourced support community

The service structure of Apache Spark Streaming can improve. There are a lot of issues with memory management and latency. There is no real-time analytics. We recommend it for the use cases where there is a five-second latency, but not for a millisecond, an IOT-based, or the detection anomaly-based. Flink as a service is much better. Apache Spark Streaming does not have auto-tuning. A customer needs to invest a lot, in terms of management and maintenance.

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Roi Jason Buela

Lead Technical Consultant at Thakral One

A solution with useful windowing features and great for operations and marketing

The persistence could be better. Although ESP is designed for in-memory processing, it would be better if the solution is enhanced or improved on the persistence of the data that is kept in the memory. For example, if one server goes down and the information is stored in the memory, it is lost. Therefore, the persistence needs to be improved so that if there are more cases where the server is down, the information and data can still be intact.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Apache Spark Streaming is versatile. You can use it for competitive intelligence, gathering data from competitors, or for internal tasks like monitoring workflows."

"Apache Spark's capabilities for machine learning are quite extensive and can be used in a low-code way."

"It's the fastest solution on the market with low latency data on data transformations."

"The solution is very stable and reliable."

"Apache Spark Streaming's most valuable feature is near real-time analytics. The developers can build APIs easily for a code-steaming pipeline. The solutions have an ecosystem of integration with other stock services."

"Apache Spark Streaming has features like checkpointing and Streaming API that are useful."

"The solution is better than average and some of the valuable features include efficiency and stability."

"As an open-source solution, using it is basically free."

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"The solution is beneficial on an enterprise level."

Cons

"The solution itself could be easier to use."

"Integrating event-level streaming capabilities could be beneficial."

"We would like to have the ability to do arbitrary stateful functions in Python."

"The debugging aspect could use some improvement."

"The initial setup is quite complex."

"It was resource-intensive, even for small-scale applications."

"The cost and load-related optimizations are areas where the tool lacks and needs improvement."

"There could be an improvement in the area of the user configuration section, it should be less developer-focused and more business user-focused."

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"The persistence could be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I was using the open-source community version, which was self-hosted."

"People pay for Apache Spark Streaming as a service."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive, or not cost-effective, and ten is cheap, I rate the price a seven."

"Spark is an affordable solution, especially considering its open-source nature."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

20%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Apache Spark Streaming?

Apache Spark Streaming is versatile. You can use it for competitive intelligence, gathering data from competitors, or for internal tasks like monitoring workflows.

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What needs improvement with Apache Spark Streaming?

We don't have enough experience to be judgmental about its flaws, as we've only used stable features like batch micro-batch. Integration poses no problem; however, I don't use some features and can...

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What is your primary use case for Apache Spark Streaming?

We use Spark Streaming in a micro-batch region. It's not a full real-time system, but it offers high performance and low latency.

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Overview

Spark Streaming makes it easy to build scalable fault-tolerant streaming applications.

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