Qlik Compose vs StreamSets comparison

Qlik and IBM are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Qlik is ranked #34 with an average rating of 7.0, while IBM is ranked #22 with an average rating of 9.0. Qlik holds a 1.2% mindshare in DI, compared to IBM’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of Qlik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Qlik Compose

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

StreamSets and Qlik Compose compete in the data integration category. StreamSets seems to have the upper hand in terms of ease of use and integration capabilities, while Qlik Compose excels in automation and data management.

Features: StreamSets is known for its ease of use, wide connector range, and ability to handle both batch and streaming data effectively. Users highlight the Control Hub and Data Collector for offering a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface. Seamless integration with platforms like AWS and Azure is highly valued. Qlik Compose, on the other hand, shines in automation, enabling warehouse design with minimal coding. It provides excellent data integration and management features, supporting synchronization across databases.

Room for Improvement: StreamSets users report issues with integration beyond Java platforms and call for better memory management and simpler logging. They also see room for enhancing security and usability, alongside documentation and community support improvements. Qlik Compose users desire stronger monitoring and data transformation capabilities. They look for enhanced handling of high-volume data, better custom coding language integration, and more intuitive user experiences.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StreamSets offers flexibility across public, hybrid, and on-premises cloud environments. Technical support reviews vary, from effective to requiring patience, with improvements desired in response times and communication. Qlik Compose primarily deploys on-premises and in private clouds, with users often relying on community and web resources. Technical support needs to be more user-friendly and responsive.

Pricing and ROI: StreamSets has multiple pricing models, including a free version and paid editions with advanced features, but costs are high for small businesses, leading to calls for more flexible pricing. Despite this, users find significant ROI in time savings and better data integration. Qlik Compose's pricing is also considered high, especially for corporate clients, suggesting a need for more competitive options. Both solutions offer valuable features that impact perceived value and ROI differently for users.

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Categories and Ranking

Qlik Compose

Ranking in Data Integration

34th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

StreamSets

Ranking in Data Integration

22nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Qlik Compose is 1.2%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StreamSets is 1.6%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sahil Taneja

Principal Consultant/Manager at Tenzing

Easy matching and reconciliation of data

The initial setup was easy for the data warehousing concept. But for a person who is new to ETL and warehousing concepts, it may take some time. If someone is familiar with these concepts, they could understand and learn the tool quickly. However, compared to other tools, the UI is complex. It would be helpful to have a better UI and documentation for new users. As of now, there is a challenge in learning the Compose tool for new users altogether. Qlik Compose was deployed on-premises. But the servers, like the SQL servers were maintained on the cloud—the managed instances.

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Ved Prakash Yadav

Senior Data Platform Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Useful for data transformation and helps with column encryption

We use various tools and alerting systems to notify us of pipeline errors or failures. StreamSets supports data governance and compliance by allowing us to encrypt incoming data based on specified rules. We can easily encrypt columns by providing the column name and hash key. If you're considering using StreamSets for the first time, I would advise first understanding why you want to use it and how it will benefit you. If you're dealing with change tracking or handling large amounts of data, it could be cost-effective compared to services like Amazon. It's easy to schedule and manage tasks with the tool, and you can enhance your skills as an ETL developer. You can easily migrate traditional pipelines built on platforms like Informatica or Talend to StreamSets. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

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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

"I like modeling and code generation. It has become a pretty handy tool because of its short ideation to delivery time. From the time you decide you are modeling a data warehouse, and once you finish the modeling, it generates all the code, generates all the tables. All you have to do is tick a few things, and you can produce a fully functional warehouse. I also like that they have added all the features I have asked for over four years."

"The technical support is very good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."

"As long as you pick the solution that best fits with your requirements, you won't find that performance is a problem. It's good."

"The most valuable is its excellence as a graphical data representation tool and the versatility it offers, especially with drill-down capabilities."

"It can scale."

"Qlik Compose is good enough. It is user-friendly and intuitive."

"There were many valuable features, such as extracting any data to put in the cloud. For example, Qlik was able to gather data from SAP and extract SAP data from the platforms."

"It's a stable solution."

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"Also, the intuitive canvas for designing all the streams in the pipeline, along with the simplicity of the entire product are very big pluses for me. The software is very simple and straightforward. That is something that is needed right now."

"It is really easy to set up and the interface is easy to use."

"In StreamSets, everything is in one place."

"The most valuable features are the option of integration with a variety of protocols, languages, and origins."

"The best feature that I really like is the integration."

"The entire user interface is very simple and the simplicity of creating pipelines is something that I like very much about it. The design experience is very smooth."

"The scheduling within the data engineering pipeline is very much appreciated, and it has a wide range of connectors for connecting to any data sources like SQL Server, AWS, Azure, etc. We have used it with Kafka, Hadoop, and Azure Data Factory Datasets. Connecting to these systems with StreamSets is very easy."

"One of the things I like is the data pipelines. They have a very good design. Implementing pipelines is very straightforward. It doesn't require any technical skill."

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Cons

"The solution has room for improvement in the ETL. They have an ETL, but when it comes to the monitoring portion, Qlik Compose doesn't provide a feature for monitoring."

"Qlik's ETL and data transformation could be better."

"My issues with the solution's stability are owing to the fact that it has certain bugs causing issues in some functionalities that should be working."

"When processing data from certain tables with a large volume of data, we encounter significant delays. For instance, when dealing with around one million records, it typically takes three to four hours. To address this, I aim to implement performance improvements across all tables, ensuring swift processing similar to those that are currently complete within seconds. The performance issue primarily arises when we analyze the inserts and updates from the source, subsequently dropping the table. While new insertions are handled promptly, updates are processed slowly, leading to performance issues. Despite consulting our Qlik vendors, they were unable to pinpoint the exact cause of this occurrence. Consequently, I am seeking ways to optimize performance within Qlik Compose, specifically concerning updates."

"There could be more customization options."

"It would be better if the first level of technical support were a bit more technically knowledgeable to solve the problem. I think they could also improve the injection of custom scripts. It is pretty difficult to add additional scripts. If the modeling doesn't give you what you want, and you want to change the script generated by the modeling, it is a bit more challenging than in most other products. It is very good with standard form type systems, but if you get a more complicated data paradigm, it tends to struggle with transforming that into a model."

"I'd like to have access to more developer training materials."

"It could enhance its capabilities in the realm of self-service options as currently, it is more suited for individuals with technical proficiency who can create pages using it."

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"The logging mechanism could be improved. If I am working on a pipeline, then create a job out of it and it is running, it will generate constant logs. So, the logging mechanism could be simplified. Now, it is a bit difficult to understand and filter the logs. It takes some time."

"One thing that I would like to add is the ability to manually enter data. The way the solution currently works is we don't have the option to manually change the data at any point in time. Being able to do that will allow us to do everything that we want to do with our data. Sometimes, we need to manually manipulate the data to make it more accurate in case our prior bifurcation filters are not good. If we have the option to manually enter the data or make the exact iterations on the data set, that would be a good thing."

"We've seen a couple of cases where it appears to have a memory leak or a similar problem."

"Sometimes, it is not clear at first how to set up nodes. A site with an explanation of how each node works would be very helpful."

"Visualization and monitoring need to be improved and refined."

"One area for improvement could be the cloud storage server speed, as we have faced some latency issues here and there."

"There aren't enough hands-on labs, and debugging is also an issue because it takes a lot of time. Logs are not that clear when you are debugging, and you can only select a single source for a pipeline."

"StreamSet works great for batch processing but we are looking for something that is more real-time. We need latency in numbers below milliseconds."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is very expensive, I rate the solution a six."

"While they outperform Tableau, there's room for improvement in Qlik's pricing structures, especially for corporate clients like us."

"StreamSets is an expensive solution."

"We use the free version. It's great for a public, free release. Our stance is that the paid support model is too expensive to get into. They should honestly reevaluate that."

"We are running the community version right now, which can be used free of charge."

"There are different versions of the product. One is the corporate license version, and the other one is the open-source or free version. I have been using the corporate license version, but they have recently launched a new open-source version so that anybody can create an account and use it. The licensing cost varies from customer to customer. I don't have a lot of input on that. It is taken care of by PMO, and they seem fine with its pricing model. It is being used enterprise-wide. They seem to have got a good deal for StreamSets."

"There are two editions, Professional and Enterprise, and there is a free trial. We're using the Professional edition and it is competitively priced."

"I believe the pricing is not equitable."

"The licensing is expensive, and there are other costs involved too. I know from using the software that you have to buy new features whenever there are new updates, which I don't really like. But initially, it was very good."

"StreamSets Data Collector is open source. One can utilize the StreamSets Data Collector, but the Control Hub is the main repository where all the jobs are present. Everything happens in Control Hub."

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Financial Services Firm

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Manufacturing Company

10%

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Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Questions from the Community

Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?

There are two products I know about * TimeXtender : Microsoft based, Transformation logic is quiet good and can easily be extended with T-SQL , Has a semantic layer that generates metat data for cu...

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What do you like most about Qlik Compose?

The most valuable is its excellence as a graphical data representation tool and the versatility it offers, especially with drill-down capabilities.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qlik Compose?

While they outperform Tableau, there's room for improvement in Qlik's pricing structures, especially for corporate clients like us.

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What do you like most about StreamSets?

The best thing about StreamSets is its plugins, which are very useful and work well with almost every data source. It's also easy to use, especially if you're comfortable with SQL. You can customiz...

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What needs improvement with StreamSets?

One issue I observed with StreamSets is that the memory runs out quickly when processing large volumes of data. Because of this memory issue, we have to upgrade our EC2 boxes in the Amazon AWS infr...

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What is your primary use case for StreamSets?

We are using StreamSets for batch loading.

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Overview

Qlik Sense is a powerful business intelligence tool that offers a range of features to help organizations make faster and more informed decisions. Its primary use cases include operational and financial dashboards, self-service reporting, and centralized access to cross-functional reports. The solution is praised for its mobile platform, ease of use, data-sharing capabilities, and extensibility.

Qlik Sense has helped organizations improve data literacy, reduce time consumed in complex reports, and provide widely available MI to senior stakeholders. It also enables self-service analytics, improves data quality and governance, enhances collaboration, and reduces costs.

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StreamSets is a data integration platform that enables organizations to efficiently move and process data across various systems. It offers a user-friendly interface for designing, deploying, and managing data pipelines, allowing users to easily connect to various data sources and destinations. StreamSets also provides real-time monitoring and alerting capabilities, ensuring that data is flowing smoothly and any issues are quickly addressed.

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