FME vs Spring Cloud Data Flow comparison

Safe Software and Broadcom are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Safe Software is ranked #23 with an average rating of 7.5, while Broadcom is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.8. Safe Software holds a 1.6% mindshare in DI, compared to Broadcom’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Safe Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

FME

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

FME and Spring Cloud Data Flow compete in data integration and management. Spring Cloud Data Flow appears to have the upper hand with its superior capability in modern cloud-native architectures.

Features: FME offers an intuitive graphical user interface, diverse connectors for different data sources, and powerful spatial data handling capabilities. Spring Cloud Data Flow provides seamless real-time streaming, exceptional integration with Kafka and Elasticsearch, and a flexible microservices orchestration framework enabling efficient task execution.

Room for Improvement: FME could benefit from improved support for general-purpose data processing beyond spatial data and enhanced cloud-native integration. Better native cloud support and more comprehensive open-source documentation could enhance its appeal. Spring Cloud Data Flow might improve by refining its complex architecture to simplify user onboarding, expanding support for proprietary plugins, and boosting usability for non-developers through enhanced graphical interfaces.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FME offers a straightforward deployment process with excellent customer support, particularly for projects involving spatial data. Spring Cloud Data Flow features robust scalability and cloud service integration but requires significant technical expertise for deployment due to its complex architecture. Customer support is effective for both products, though Spring Cloud Data Flow demands cloud-specific knowledge.

Pricing and ROI: FME typically involves a higher upfront license cost but offers substantial ROI with its spatial data capabilities. In contrast, Spring Cloud Data Flow leverages open-source frameworks for lower initial costs, though its ROI is heavily reliant on the existing infrastructure and processing requirements. Its scalable pricing reflects cloud resource utilization.

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Categories and Ranking

FME

Ranking in Data Integration

23rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Spring Cloud Data Flow

Ranking in Data Integration

21st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Streaming Analytics (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of FME is 1.6%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring Cloud Data Flow is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Spring Cloud Data Flow	1.2%
FME	1.6%
Other	97.2%

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Alan Bloor

Geographic Information System Developer at Public Sector

Great for handling large volumes of data, but it is priced a bit high

When I do coding, I think about every single function. Some of these functions can be very elementary, like doing a substring or some capitalization. But FME removes all that coding because it's a transformer, so the time to develop an application to get to a point where you're producing results is decreased massively. It used to take weeks and months to develop software, and now I can use something like FME, and within one day, we get results. We can look at and validate data. We make minor subtle changes to the workbenches to improve it. We can share the workbenches. We don't have to use GitHub or anything else.

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Alokik Gupta

Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra Limited

Effective microservice and task management but needs more dashboard features

The dashboards in Spring Cloud Dataflow are quite valuable. By injecting the dependency of Spring Cloud Dataflow into our Spring Boot application and annotating it with 'enable task annotation', we can manage tasks effectively. Additionally, the platform allows us to create pipelines and use microservices like a logical AND gate, giving us greater control over our microservices.

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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

"All spatial features are unrivaled, and the possibility to execute them based on a scheduled trigger, manual, e-mail, Websocket, tweet, file/directory change or virtually any trigger is most valuable."

"From my reseller perspective, the best features in FME are the ease of operation and the fact that it works."

"It has a very friendly user interface. You don't need to use a lot of code. For us that's the most important aspect about it. Also, it has a lot of connectors and few forms. It has a strong facial aspect. It can do a lot of facial analysis."

"FME is spatially aware and understands how to deal with the conversion of spatial objects and their attributes."

"It has standard plug-ins available for different data sources."

"We make minor subtle changes to the workbenches to improve it. We can share the workbenches. We don't have to use GitHub or anything else."

"The most valuable feature of FME is the graphical user interface. There is nothing better. It is very easy to debug because you can see all steps where there are failures. Overall the software is easy to optimize a process."

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

"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 product is very user-friendly."

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

"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 dashboards in Spring Cloud Dataflow are quite valuable."

"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."

"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."

Cons

"FME can improve the geographical transformation. I've had some problems with the geographical transformations, but it's probably mostly because I'm not the most skilled geographer in-house. The solution requires some in-depth knowledge to perform some functions."

"Improvements could be made to mapping presentations."

"To get a higher rating, it would have to improve the price and the associated scalability. These are the main issues."

"The one thing that always appears in the community is the ability to make really easy loops to loop through data efficiently. That needs to be added at some point."

"We are looking at the possibility of using Glue instead of FME, using the native AWS product."

"FME's price needs improvement for the African market."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product's price is reasonable."

"We used the standard licensing for our use of FME. The cost was approximately €15,000 annually. We always welcome less expensive solutions, if the solution could be less expensive it would be helpful."

"FME Server used to cost £10,000; now it can cost over £100,000."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

34%

Energy/Utilities Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

15%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about FME?

We make minor subtle changes to the workbenches to improve it. We can share the workbenches. We don't have to use GitHub or anything else.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FME?

The pricing is really bad. Last year, they rebranded the whole pricing structure. It used to be moderately priced at about £400 per user per year. Now they've changed the whole thing, and it's expe...

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What needs improvement with FME?

I haven't had any input or requirements from any customers that are not currently covered, so I don't have any additional needs that were identified or raised to me. Regarding pricing, with the mod...

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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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Overview

FME is the data integration platform with the best support for spatial data. Run workflows on the desktop or deploy them in a server or cloud environment.

Safe Software

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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Sample Customers

Shell, US Department of Commerce, PG&E, BC Hydro, City of Vancouver, Enel, Iowa DoT, San Antonio Water System

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