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Ably vs Collibra [Private Offer Only] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Ably
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Collibra [Private Offer Only]
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
497th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Uday Nagpure  - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at Zensar Technologies
Reduced manual work and built reliable real-time collaboration with serverless messaging
I love Ably for its advanced pub/sub messaging capabilities, which help us with messaging Delta Compression, allowing us to send only changes from previous messages instead of entire payloads every time. For example, if I have to say 'hi', instead of sending the whole payload, it only sends the change in the current payload, reducing bandwidth consumption and enabling high-frequency data streaming. This major change has made our clients really happy as they receive notifications and messages without latency. Additionally, if a client goes offline, Ably stores messages in history for up to 72 hours, allowing clients to query history and catch up on missed events, ensuring complete stream continuity. It also supports multi-protocol, using WebSockets and gracefully falling back to server-sent events and long polling as needed, including support for MQTT and IoT devices along with pub/sub control for easy migration.I appreciate the serverless integration that has the integrated native web hook, instantly triggering serverless functions such as AWS Lambda and Azure Function when specific real-time events occur. It also allows Kafka Connector for seamless ingestion of messages from Kafka topics to stream them out to millions of users in milliseconds.
Yuval Rapaport - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Management at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Data cataloging has improved quality monitoring and automated lineage supports deeper insights
Integration to data sources and reliability and availability are the advantages in Collibra [Private Offer Only] that really stand out for me, and I believe those are probably the two most important points. I am working with the automated data lineage feature in Collibra [Private Offer Only]. The automated data lineage feature helps with traceability in the organization because it makes the catalog live; rather than the catalog being a spreadsheet essentially with definitions, users can not only find the business definition, but then also see which tables and columns actually create this business term. That's very powerful. Regarding intelligent workflow capabilities, I believe it impacts data stewardship tasks within my team by improving and helping in making and creating those definitions. It is essential to us that Collibra [Private Offer Only] integrates with other data systems in our environment, and we are using it, and it's quite effective. The integration aspect of Collibra [Private Offer Only] is important because it provides data integration that delivers lineage into Databricks, Salesforce, and soon also SAP.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Ably has positively impacted our organization by providing a good return on investment by avoiding the labor cost of building and maintaining a custom WebSocket server."
"We experience vast improvements across many areas with Ably; when users connect bank accounts, we previously had to poll repeatedly, which is now replaced by Ably's real-time infrastructure that maintains a persistent back-end connection, significantly reducing the need for infrastructure management and API load, resulting in average bank connection display times decreasing from eight to twelve seconds down to one to two seconds, and with persistent back-end connections reducing API calls, we achieve a lower operational load, seeing an impressive reduction of thirty thousand to forty thousand calls monthly."
"Ably has improved our organization by enhancing real-time communication capabilities and providing reliable data delivery."
"Ably's API integration is intuitive; it definitely improved our efficiency, and we saw faster user interaction and around a 20% reduction in latency during peak times, which improved user experience as well."
"My most-liked feature is its highly reliable real-time messaging capacity."
"Ably has a big capacity to stream data all over the world, has higher reliability and a 99.99% uptime, offers robust security guarantees and ease of integration, and saved at least 80% of the cost that would have required more developers and more time for integration testing and development."
"The biggest advantage of Collibra is that it is quite business-friendly."
"Integration to data sources and reliability and availability are the advantages in Collibra [Private Offer Only] that really stand out for me, and I believe those are probably the two most important points."
 

Cons

"Overall, Ably appears strong for managed real-time operations, but could improve areas such as pricing predictability."
"Ably can be improved in several areas."
"It falls just short of a perfect ten only because full twenty-four-hour phone or live chat escalation is heavily gated behind their highest enterprise pricing tiers."
"If I had to rate support from zero to 10, with 10 being the best, I would give them 6.5."
"The search capabilities are terrible in Collibra [Private Offer Only] because you can't do free search."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
27%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Consumer Goods Company
6%
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Small Business7
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Ably?
For the use I have made, I didn't see any limit or margin to implement to go higher.
What is your primary use case for Ably?
My main use case for Ably is integrating the Kafka queue with Ably and sending notifications to IoT devices like a smartwatch. After the topic was reached by the message, Ably can fetch it from thi...
What advice do you have for others considering Ably?
I would recommend trying Ably if you have a wider range of IoT device types to deliver notifications. I gave this review a rating of 9.
What needs improvement with Collibra [Private Offer Only]?
There are some areas where Collibra [Private Offer Only] could be improved. Earlier, they didn't have this data quality module and the AI part, but now I think I have not recently used that fea...
What is your primary use case for Collibra [Private Offer Only]?
My major use case is basically on glossary and business glossary. Among other features, I see a Data Lineage feature with automated Data Lineage capability. I do not use Data Lineage.
 

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