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IBM Smart Analytics vs Weka comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Smart Analytics
Ranking in Data Mining
9th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Weka
Ranking in Data Mining
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Anomaly Detection Tools (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Mining category, the mindshare of IBM Smart Analytics is 2.8%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Weka is 8.8%, down from 21.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Mining Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Weka8.8%
IBM Smart Analytics2.8%
Other88.4%
Data Mining
 

Featured Reviews

RH
Program Manager - Enterprise Command Center at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Adding LA on top of a well deployed & working Tivoli Framework opens up a flood of native logged data points. The visual presentation layer of LA is less than cutting edge.
The IBM monitoring software products (Tivoli) are not easy to instrument and require many separate pieces of the total framework to be operationally functional and useable. That said, adding LA on top of a well deployed & working Tivoli Framework opens up a flood of native logged data points for unstructured search & query. My team had a special need to implement custom alerting on 10s of thousands of MQ channels in a short amount of time, and the traditional approach (also w a Tivoli product) would have been very costly (labor) and time consuming (requiring individual app review). As an alternative, we had a new event stream create to track all MQ channels to generate logs and then used LA to visualize the behavior trends for review, reporting and eventually alerting. The effort took longer than I hoped ~6 months, but the traditional approach would have taken 2+ yrs to review and implement app by app.
AwaisAnwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Treasury Management in Finance Department at National University of Pakistan
Open source, good for basic data mining use cases except for the visualization results
I haven't found it particularly useful. It lacks state-of-the-art algorithms and impressive outcomes. While it might offer insights for basic warehouse tasks, it falls short of deeper understanding and results. Moreover, a new user interface would be great, especially for beginners. Something that guides them through the available tools and helps them achieve their goals. I haven't seen anything like that myself, though maybe it's there and I missed it.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Log Analytics (LA) allows a user to see patterns of behavior and isolate issues quickly, without the need to manually access individual systems and parse logs manually."
"I like the machine algorithm for clustering systems. Weka has larger capabilities. There are multiple algorithms that can be used for clustering. It depends upon the user requirements. For clustering, I've used DBSCAN, whereas for supervised learning, I've used AVM and RFT."
"Weka is a very easy to use Data Mining solution, great for learning and for doing small experiments before exploring the data deeper, with a large number and diversity of algorithms that make it an excellent solution for rapid testing."
"Weka eliminates the need for coding, allowing you to easily set parameters and complete the majority of the machine learning task with just a few clicks."
"It is a stable product."
"The interface is very good, and the algorithms are the very best."
"Working with complicated algorithms in huge datasets is really easy in Weka."
"Weka's best features are its user-friendly graphic interface interpretation of data sets and the ease of analyzing data."
"I mainly use this solution for the regression tree, and for its association rules. I run these two methodologies for Weka."
 

Cons

"The indexing engine (proprietary build of LogStash) is well... very LogStash'ish... It requires more work to normalize the log feeds than competing products."
"If there are a lot more lines of code, then we should use another language."
"A few people said it became slow after a while."
"While it might offer insights for basic warehouse tasks, it falls short of deeper understanding and results."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"The product is good, but I would like it to work with big data. I know it has a Spark integration they could use to do analysis in clusters, but it's not so clear how to use it."
"I believe is there are a few newer algorithms that are not present in the Weka libraries. Whereas, for example, if I want to have a solution that involves deep learning, so I don't think that Weka has that capability. So in that case I have to use Python for ... predict any algorithms based on deep learning."
"Scalability and performance are the main aspect of improvement in Weka, since it has the main Java limitations, regarding the JVM."
"If you have one missing value in your dataset and this missing value belongs to a specific attribute and the attribute is a numeric attribute and there is only one missing data, whenever you import this data, the problem is that Weka cannot understand that this is a numeric field. It converts everything into a string, and there is no way to convert the string into numerical math. It's really very complicated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Currently, I am using an open-source version so I don't know much about the price of this solution."
"The solution is free and open-source."
"As far as I know, Weka is a freeware tool, and I am not aware if they have an online solution or if it is a commercial product."
"We use the free version now. My faculty is very small."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
15%
University
13%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
 

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