We performed a comparison between Apache Spark Streaming and Software AG Apama based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Confluent and others in Streaming Analytics."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."
"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 solution is very stable and reliable."
"As an open-source solution, using it is basically free."
"Apache Spark Streaming was straightforward in terms of maintenance. It was actively developed, and migrating from an older to a newer version was quite simple."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability that it provides its users to handle different kinds of rules."
"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."
"We would like to have the ability to do arbitrary stateful functions in Python."
"There could be an improvement in the area of the user configuration section, it should be less developer-focused and more business user-focused."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"The cost and load-related optimizations are areas where the tool lacks and needs improvement."
"In terms of improvement, the UI could be better."
"The solution itself could be easier to use."
"It was resource-intensive, even for small-scale applications."
"The ease of development and maintenance should be enhanced, but it is difficult due to the use of the proprietary programming language in the product."
Apache Spark Streaming is ranked 8th in Streaming Analytics with 8 reviews while Software AG Apama is ranked 17th in Streaming Analytics with 1 review. Apache Spark Streaming is rated 8.0, while Software AG Apama is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Apache Spark Streaming writes "Easy integration, beneficial auto-scaling, and good open-sourced support community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Software AG Apama writes "A tool to send out promotional notifications that need to improve areas, like deployment and maintenance". Apache Spark Streaming is most compared with Amazon Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Confluent and Apache Pulsar, whereas Software AG Apama is most compared with Oracle BAM, TIBCO Streambase CEP and Apache Flink.
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