We performed a comparison between Spring Cloud Data Flow and TIBCO BusinessWorks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The most valuable feature is real-time streaming."
"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."
"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."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"It is a seamless and sophisticated tool."
"It is a very robust system."
"Good TIBCO BusinessWorks features are the admin console and the ability to roll back to the previous version."
"BusinessWorks reduces development time, helping developers to focus on business logic."
"Good performance and reliability."
"We use the solution to develop applications."
"The OSGI console is available to debug different issues and get low level informations on the applications development, like bundle, dependencies, etc."
"The most valuable features are the stability and the time to market."
"On the tool's online discussion forums, you may get stuck with an issue, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The configurations could be better. Some configurations are a little bit time-consuming in terms of trying to understand using the Spring Cloud documentation."
"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."
"Some of the features, like the monitoring tools, are not very mature and are still evolving."
"Scaling with the solution is costly because if we need to scale up, we have to buy more memory. That means more money. Solutions like Camel or Pulsar come with built-in options to scale horizontally, vertically, region-wide or country-wide."
"There are not many plugins available to integrate the databases. We have to write it in Java and integrate it. The developers should have more knowledge. These are the three main aspects that they could improve."
"Its price can be improved. For medium enterprises, it is a very expensive tool. In the market, you won't get many resources for this solution. You won't find many developers in the market very easily. The latest version of TIBCO (6.4 or 6.x) is not very stable. It has got many issues. We have raised this with TIBCO, and they are taking a lot of time to come up with a fix, which is making us move away from this product. Some of the performance-tuning aspects are also missing in version 6. They should provide performance-related fixes, which will be helpful for the customers. If you are migrating from the current version to the container-supported version, it is quite expensive. The product has evolved, but it is very pricey. That's one of the challenges. They have provided all the features that are there in other products, but this is a platform upgrade. The platform has completely been changed from 5.x to 6.x, and we can't use the same environment. We can't run both versions on the same server as VM. The development environment is entirely different. In version 5.x, there was a proprietary designer. Now, it has common plug-ins developed on top of Eclipse."
"Could be more user friendly in the development area."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"Though it is a stable product, if we have an issue with the product, it gets difficult, and it gets really difficult to explain the issue to the support team. Also, it takes a long time to get resolved."
"TIBCO BusinessWorks could be improved with cloud support."
"They don't support out of the box - you have to buy adapters or you have to have the technology."
Spring Cloud Data Flow is ranked 29th in Data Integration with 5 reviews while TIBCO BusinessWorks is ranked 18th in Data Integration with 23 reviews. Spring Cloud Data Flow is rated 8.0, while TIBCO BusinessWorks is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Spring Cloud Data Flow writes "Provides ease of integration with other cloud platforms ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO BusinessWorks writes "Reliable integration solution with robust communication capabilities and good scalability". Spring Cloud Data Flow is most compared with Apache Flink, Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Spark Streaming, Azure Data Factory and Mule Anypoint Platform, whereas TIBCO BusinessWorks is most compared with webMethods Integration Server, Mule Anypoint Platform, Confluent, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter.
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