Alteryx Designer vs Spring Cloud Data Flow comparison

Alteryx and VMware are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Alteryx is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.6, while VMware is ranked #20 with an average rating of 7.8. Alteryx holds a 2.2% mindshare in DI, compared to VMware’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Alteryx users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of VMware users who would recommend it.

Alteryx Designer

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Spring Cloud Data Flow and Alteryx Designer compete in the data integration and processing space. Spring Cloud Data Flow has an edge in cost efficiency, while Alteryx Designer leads with advanced features justifying a higher price.

Features: Spring Cloud Data Flow emphasizes stream processing, scalability, and integration flexibility. Alteryx Designer offers intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, powerful data preparation, blending, and comprehensive analytics tools.

Room for Improvement: Spring Cloud Data Flow could improve its user interface and offer more intuitive tools for non-developers. It may also benefit from enhanced data preparation features. Alteryx Designer would benefit from reducing its learning curve for complex analytics and offering more robust community support. It might also improve on its data integration capabilities beyond its existing offerings.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Spring Cloud Data Flow seamlessly integrates into existing environments, supported by strong community resources. Alteryx Designer offers simpler deployment and dedicated customer support, facilitating a smoother start for teams.

Pricing and ROI: Spring Cloud Data Flow provides a cost-effective solution with lower setup costs, appealing to budget-conscious businesses. Alteryx Designer, though more expensive, offers a strong ROI through its extensive analytics capabilities and time-saving features, justifying its higher price.

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Categories and Ranking

Alteryx Designer

Ranking in Data Integration

10th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Spring Cloud Data Flow

Ranking in Data Integration

20th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Streaming Analytics (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Alteryx Designer is 2.2%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring Cloud Data Flow is 1.3%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ajay Nayak

Senior Data Engineer at Baxter International Inc.

An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support

Sometimes, while getting data from a third-party product, like data sources that are not present in your system, Alteryx works a bit slowly. Even if you have a good configuration and you are pulling data from an SQL server like SAP, then the solution also has a slow work process. It shouldn't be that much slow if you are pulling ten thousand records, it should not take thirty minutes.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Alteryx Designer's best features are that it's easy to use and performs well."

"The functionality of drag and drop is the most valuable. It is a very user-friendly tool that can be understood easily. My teams also work with other solutions, such as Integration Services, and these solutions are very difficult for people who don't have technical knowledge."

"The features I found most valuable are the preparation features – the Join and the Transform."

"The solution is user-friendly."

"I like Alteryx's browser tool because you can view how your data is handled live. There are many other valuable tools like transpose and the crosstab. You can quickly pivot your data, and there are connections throughout the database. It's so easy to create a connection. If you connect to sign apps or a more complex database, the tool contains all the tools you need."

"The main valuable aspect is the simplicity of use across all features."

"Alteryx Designer is stable."

"Alteryx Designer is a tool that is pretty much easy to install."

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"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 feature is real-time streaming."

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

"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."

"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."

"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 product is very user-friendly."

Cons

"Optimizing processing times is one area I would like to see improved in Alteryx Designer. Sometimes, the workflows take an extremely long time to run. There are days when I have had to wait two to three hours for a single process to complete. There needs to be a functionality to split the processes."

"Alteryx Designer's pricing and support could be improved."

"For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive."

"For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive. The server capabilities are costly too. The technical support could also improve by being quicker in response times."

"If the price were reduced then it would be more competitive."

"The only thing is sometimes it can be a bit slow."

"Alteryx needs to improve its web governance. The gallery you use to filter the data is something else that could use some work. For instance, if you have a report connected to a database and want to filter a specific user, you should be able to suggest a specific region or a particular year. I know that the Alteryx isn't designed for data governance, but that would be great to think about."

"Its cost can sometimes be a drawback."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Alteryx is a little bit expensive compared to competing solutions."

"It is too expensive for our country. We are a small country, so it is too difficult to sell this solution. With Alteryx Designer, if you want to automate the data and run the flows, you have to pay more money. We were trying to automate the flows, and we found out that people have to pay 600 more for this feature, which makes it even more expensive. We are a partner for Tableau, and we are working with Tableau Prep, which is like a mini Alteryx. In Tableau Prep, you can drag and drop and make new connections with the different data sources. You can make all the connections. You can also publish a source. You don't have to pay more money with Tableau. You pay like $5 per user per month to access it."

"The product is a bit expensive, it should be looked into."

"Alteryx Designer is a very expensive solution."

"The licenses are expensive, making it difficult to consider acquiring additional licenses to the existing ones."

"The solution is expensive. It has license fees, which are renewable every year."

"I rate the price of Alteryx Designer as a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is a highly cheap product."

"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."

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"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

22%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

16%

Retailer

Insurance Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alteryx Designer?

When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alteryx Designer?

It's cheaper than Palantir, but even Alteryx is too much for small clients. It is expensive, considering the server capabilities.

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What needs improvement with Alteryx Designer?

For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive. The server capabilities are costly too. The technical support could also improve by being quicker in response times.

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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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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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