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Apache Spark Streaming vs Informatica Data Engineering Streaming [EOL] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Apache Spark Streaming
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
17
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Informatica Data Engineerin...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

Khoa Dang Le - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal AI Engineer at IMT Solutions
Have faced challenges with complex data handling and seek smoother integration for machine learning workflows
I find the fault tolerance feature beneficial because I use it for serving data from a landing area. I understand all of the structures we have for Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, and MLlib. The ability of Apache Spark Streaming to handle out-of-order data using watermarking and windowing is something we use in our pipeline. Nearly 50% of our usage is based on that because we use it for landing data, and we appreciate that we can work with it. The main benefits of Apache Spark Streaming include cost savings, time savings, and efficiency improvements about data storage. The fast storage capability is crucial because Apache Spark replaces Hadoop's MapReduce, allowing us to manage our data more efficiently.
DK
BI Practice Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Helps with real-time data processing and improves decision-making overall
It improves decision-making overall for the company. Informatica is usually the tool for setting up the data, streaming the data into your data warehouse from your source, transforming the data, and preparing and modeling it into some desired format. It improves the performance. You need to know how to use it and how to implement it, but it improves performance.

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Pros

"Apache Spark Streaming has features like checkpointing and Streaming API that are useful."
"Apache Spark's capabilities for machine learning are quite extensive and can be used in a low-code way."
"I appreciate Apache Spark Streaming's micro-batching capabilities; the watermarking functionality and related features are quite good."
"As an open-source solution, using it is basically free."
"It's the fastest solution on the market with low latency data on data transformations."
"Apache Spark Streaming is versatile. You can use it for competitive intelligence, gathering data from competitors, or for internal tasks like monitoring workflows."
"The platform’s most valuable feature for processing real-time data is its ability to handle continuous data streams."
"The main benefits of Apache Spark Streaming include cost savings, time savings, and efficiency improvements about data storage."
"It improves the performance."
 

Cons

"When dealing with various data types including COBOL, Excel, JSON, video, audio, and MPG files, challenges can arise with incomplete or missing values."
"The solution itself could be easier to use."
"Integrating event-level streaming capabilities could be beneficial."
"We don't have enough experience to be judgmental about its flaws."
"In terms of improvement, the UI could be better."
"While it is reliable, there are some issues with Apache Spark Streaming as it is not 100% reliable."
"The cost and load-related optimizations are areas where the tool lacks and needs improvement."
"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."
"Skill requirement is required. There is a learning curve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Spark is an affordable solution, especially considering its open-source nature."
"I was using the open-source community version, which was self-hosted."
"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."
"People pay for Apache Spark Streaming as a service."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
33%
Construction Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Media Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Apache Spark Streaming?
One of the improvements we need is in Spark SQL and the machine learning library. I don't think there is too much to work on, but the issue is when we want to use machine learning, we always need t...
What is your primary use case for Apache Spark Streaming?
We work with Apache Spark Streaming for our project because we use that as one of the landing data sources, and we work with it to ensure we can get all of the data before it goes through our data ...
What advice do you have for others considering Apache Spark Streaming?
One thing I would share with other organizations considering Apache Spark Streaming is the necessity of having effective data storage. We want to ensure we acquire and manage our data storage effec...
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Also Known As

Spark Streaming
Big Data Streaming, Informatica Intelligent Streaming, Intelligent Streaming
 

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