Spring Cloud Data Flow vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

VMware and TIBCO are both solutions in the Data Integration category. VMware is ranked #24 with an average rating of 7.7, while TIBCO is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.3. VMware holds a 1.1% mindshare in DI, compared to TIBCO’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of VMware users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

Spring Cloud Data Flow

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

TIBCO BusinessWorks and Spring Cloud Data Flow compete in the enterprise software industry with strengths in integration and microservices, respectively. TIBCO BusinessWorks has the upper hand in terms of stability and performance, while Spring Cloud Data Flow excels in flexibility and open-source advantages.

Features: TIBCO BusinessWorks is appreciated for its robust integration and transformation capabilities, enterprise cloud connectors, and legacy system compatibility. It is known for superior stability and scalability. Spring Cloud Data Flow is valued for its simple programming model, microservices integration, and ease of deployment on Kubernetes, supporting a broad range of cloud platforms.

Room for Improvement: TIBCO BusinessWorks could benefit from better cloud optimization and a user-friendly environment, with improvements needed in integration and monitoring tools. Its high licensing costs are also a concern. Spring Cloud Data Flow needs to enhance its user interface and documentation clarity, along with stronger community support for better troubleshooting and configuration.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: TIBCO BusinessWorks is often deployed on-premises with hybrid cloud capabilities but receives mixed reviews for technical support. Spring Cloud Data Flow supports both on-premises and private cloud deployments, with Kubernetes deployment noted for ease and efficient technical support, though community engagement remains an issue.

Pricing and ROI: TIBCO BusinessWorks, being costlier with rigid licensing, is more suitable for large enterprises, providing a worthwhile ROI for an enterprise backbone. Spring Cloud Data Flow offers a cost-effective open-source model, requiring payment only for support, making it ideal for smaller enterprises while ensuring modern integration capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Spring Cloud Data Flow

Ranking in Data Integration

24th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Streaming Analytics (9th)

TIBCO BusinessWorks

Ranking in Data Integration

14th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Spring Cloud Data Flow is 1.1%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO BusinessWorks is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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NitinGoyal

Engineering Lead at Naukri.com

Has a plug-and-play model and provides good robustness and scalability

The solution's community support could be improved. I don't know why the Spring Cloud Data Flow community is not very strong. Community support is very limited whenever you face any problem or are stuck somewhere. I'm not sure whether it has improved in the last six months because this pipeline was set up almost two years ago. I struggled with that a lot. For example, there was limited support whenever I got an exception and sought help from Stack Overflow or different forums. Interacting with Kubernetes needs a few certificates. You need to define all the certificates within your application. With the help of those certificates, your Java application or Spring Cloud Data Flow can interact with Kubernetes. I faced a lot of hurdles while placing those certificates. Despite following the official documentation to define all the replicas, readiness, and liveliness probes within the Spring Cloud Data Flow application, it was not working. So, I had to troubleshoot while digging in and debugging the internals of Spring Cloud Data Flow at that time. It was just a configuration mismatch, and I was doing nothing weird. There was a small spelling difference between how Spring Cloud Data Flow was expecting it and how I passed it. I was just following the official documentation.

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Moustafa Fares

Senior Analyst at Etisalat

Connects systems securely, simplifies data communication, and benefits from AI integration potential

I would like to see an AI project with BusinessWorks. I haven't worked with cloud architecture using BusinessWorks, so I would like to work with it as a cloud architect. I am still learning the documentation, so I don't have a complete experience with TIBCO. The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods.

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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

"The product is very user-friendly."

"The best thing I like about Spring Cloud Data Flow is its plug-and-play model."

"The most valuable feature is real-time streaming."

"The ease of deployment on Kubernetes, the seamless integration for orchestration of various pipelines, and the visual dashboard that simplifies operations even for non-specialists such as quality analysts."

"There are a lot of options in Spring Cloud. It's flexible in terms of how we can use it. It's a full infrastructure."

"The most valuable features of Spring Cloud Data Flow are the simple programming model, integration, dependency Injection, and ability to do any injection. Additionally, auto-configuration is another important feature because we don't have to configure the database and or set up the boilerplate in the database in every project. The composability is good, we can create small workloads and compose them in any way we like."

"The solution's most valuable feature is that it allows us to use different batch data sources, retrieve the data, and then do the data processing, after which we can convert and store it in the target."

"The dashboards in Spring Cloud Dataflow are quite valuable."

"XML to JSON transformations, out-of-the-box, helps to build REST services."

"It is very valuable for my work, helping me communicate with other branches, parse data, and change data formats to respond to the front channels with the correct format."

"One of the most valuable features is that it's a simple development. It takes a short time to get services to work."

"It's a great software application for the middleware use cases to connect the front channels to the back ends in a secure and safer way."

"The initial setup of TIBCO BusinessWorks was straightforward since we have used the solution in our organization for a long time."

"The solution is stable. We haven't had any serious technical issues."

"The Business Studio interface based on SCA Standards helps to show the business logic at first look and improve code maintenance."

"The most valuable features are the stability and the time to market."

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Cons

"Spring Cloud Data Flow could improve the user interface. We can drag and drop in the application for the configuration and settings, and deploy it right from the UI, without having to run a CI/CD pipeline. However, that does not work with Kubernetes, it only works when we are working with jars as the Spring Cloud Data Flow applications."

"Spring Cloud Data Flow is not an easy-to-use tool, so improvements are required."

"There were instances of deployment pipelines getting stuck, and the dashboard not always accurately showing the application status, requiring manual intervention such as rerunning applications or refreshing the dashboard."

"Some of the features, like the monitoring tools, are not very mature and are still evolving."

"I would improve the dashboard features as they are not very user-friendly."

"On the tool's online discussion forums, you may get stuck with an issue, making it an area where improvements are required."

"The configurations could be better. Some configurations are a little bit time-consuming in terms of trying to understand using the Spring Cloud documentation."

"The solution's community support could be improved."

"There are multiple plugins which increase the number of product installations."

"They don't support out of the box - you have to buy adapters or you have to have the technology."

"The communication protocols could be improved."

"Its price can be improved. For medium enterprises, it is a very expensive tool. In the market, you won't get many resources for this solution. You won't find many developers in the market very easily. The latest version of TIBCO (6.4 or 6.x) is not very stable. It has got many issues. We have raised this with TIBCO, and they are taking a lot of time to come up with a fix, which is making us move away from this product. Some of the performance-tuning aspects are also missing in version 6. They should provide performance-related fixes, which will be helpful for the customers. If you are migrating from the current version to the container-supported version, it is quite expensive. The product has evolved, but it is very pricey. That's one of the challenges. They have provided all the features that are there in other products, but this is a platform upgrade. The platform has completely been changed from 5.x to 6.x, and we can't use the same environment. We can't run both versions on the same server as VM. The development environment is entirely different. In version 5.x, there was a proprietary designer. Now, it has common plug-ins developed on top of Eclipse."

"There are not many plugins available to integrate the databases. We have to write it in Java and integrate it. The developers should have more knowledge. These are the three main aspects that they could improve."

"The Business Studio tool can be improved, which is the tool for designing the processes. Improving the Business Studio tool will make this solution more stable. It has a steep learning curve, and it is pretty tough to learn."

"Cloud fitness is lacking"

"The solution’s customer support should be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."

"The solution provides value for money, and we are currently using its community edition."

"If you want support from Spring Cloud Data Flow there is a fee. The Spring Framework is open-source and this is a free solution."

"TIBCO licensing is yearly and very costly for a company like ours."

"Licensing scheme is too rigid"

"I would rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"The solution is too expensive. It's one of the most expensive solutions out there, particularly because there are so many open-source competitors on the market. I don't know the exact numbers, however."

"The payments made for service are the only addition to the standard licensing fees that we pay for the solution."

"The product is not cheap."

"I don't have the prices of the products, but I know that TIBCO is not a cheap solution. I think that this solution is more suitable for large companies because I don't think that small- or medium-sized companies would have the money for this solution. WSO2 has the community version for free, so many of the smaller companies can use it. I'm not sure what the prices are for support, though, so I suppose the support for WSO2 is not cheap either."

"Its price policy has changed quite a lot in the last two years. It was extremely expensive previously. Nowadays, you can buy a license for BusinessWorks for €2000. Looking at what you get in return in terms of support, TIBCO community, and stability, it is fairly reasonable. It is not too expensive."

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17%

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Spring Cloud Data Flow?

There were instances of deployment pipelines getting stuck, and the dashboard not always accurately showing the application status, requiring manual intervention such as rerunning applications or r...

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What is your primary use case for Spring Cloud Data Flow?

We had a project for content management, which involved multiple applications each handling content ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and storage for different customers independently. We want...

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What advice do you have for others considering Spring Cloud Data Flow?

I would definitely recommend Spring Cloud Data Flow. It requires minimal additional effort or time to understand how it works, and even non-specialists can use it effectively with its friendly docu...

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How does TIBCO BusinessWorks compare with Mule Anypoint Platform?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether TIBCO BusinessWorks or Mule Anypoint platform integration and connectivity software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mule...

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What do you like most about TIBCO BusinessWorks?

The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO BusinessWorks?

Pricing is for an enterprise application, so the company pays for it with a company license. Everything comes packaged with the license.

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Overview

Spring Cloud Data Flow is a toolkit for building data integration and real-time data processing pipelines.
Pipelines consist of Spring Boot apps, built using the Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Cloud Task microservice frameworks. This makes Spring Cloud Data Flow suitable for a range of data processing use cases, from import/export to event streaming and predictive analytics. Use Spring Cloud Data Flow to connect your Enterprise to the Internet of Anything—mobile devices, sensors, wearables, automobiles, and more.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks allows to connect applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud, providing proven reliability and scalability, out-of-the-box. With a drag-and-drop graphical development environment, TIBCO BusinessWorks eliminates the pain and cost of point-to-point application integration, connecting and unifying business processes across applications, data sources, and APIs, with access to real-time data across all your platforms.

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