Spring Cloud Data Flow vs TIBCO Spotfire comparison

The compared Broadcom and TIBCO solutions aren't in the same category. Broadcom is ranked #31 in DI , with an average rating of 7.5, and holds a 1.1% mindshare in the category. TIBCO is ranked #15 in BIT , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

Spring Cloud Data Flow

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TIBCO Spotfire

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97% willing to recommend

Spring Cloud Data Flow

TIBCO Spotfire

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Spring Cloud Data Flow and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Spring Cloud Data Flow vs. TIBCO Spotfire

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Categories and Ranking

Spring Cloud Data Flow

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (31st), Streaming Analytics (14th)

TIBCO Spotfire

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (15th)

Mindshare comparison

Spring Cloud Data Flow and TIBCO Spotfire aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Spring Cloud Data Flow is designed for Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 1.1%, up 1.0% compared to last year.
TIBCO Spotfire, on the other hand, focuses on BI (Business Intelligence) Tools, holds 1.1% mindshare, up 1.1% since last year.

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Spring Cloud Data Flow	1.1%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	3.5%
SSIS	3.5%
Other	91.9%

Data Integration

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
TIBCO Spotfire	1.1%
Microsoft Power BI	8.1%
Tableau Enterprise	6.0%
Other	84.8%

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

Featured Reviews

NitinGoyal

Engineering Lead at Naukri.com

Has a plug-and-play model and provides good robustness and scalability

The solution's community support could be improved. I don't know why the Spring Cloud Data Flow community is not very strong. Community support is very limited whenever you face any problem or are stuck somewhere. I'm not sure whether it has improved in the last six months because this pipeline was set up almost two years ago. I struggled with that a lot. For example, there was limited support whenever I got an exception and sought help from Stack Overflow or different forums. Interacting with Kubernetes needs a few certificates. You need to define all the certificates within your application. With the help of those certificates, your Java application or Spring Cloud Data Flow can interact with Kubernetes. I faced a lot of hurdles while placing those certificates. Despite following the official documentation to define all the replicas, readiness, and liveliness probes within the Spring Cloud Data Flow application, it was not working. So, I had to troubleshoot while digging in and debugging the internals of Spring Cloud Data Flow at that time. It was just a configuration mismatch, and I was doing nothing weird. There was a small spelling difference between how Spring Cloud Data Flow was expecting it and how I passed it. I was just following the official documentation.

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Jacobo Ortiz Avila

Production Engineer at Parex Resources Inc

Has improved data handling and customization but requires more intuitive visual design for workflows

It was kind of tough to have the visualizations with HTML, or you have to create your own page. But it was working great with buttons and every page updated pretty fast with the server capability, and it was handling a big amount of data, maybe five years of data. It was performing quite well, taking maybe three minutes to update the whole model. It has been good, but most recently, they changed the commercial methodology to get the license. Our política in the company is to hire or get licenses year by year, but most recently, TIBCO Spotfire asked us to have a three-year license term. That made things a little bit tougher for the commercial relationship. Maybe with all these automation processes that you have, those could be more visually friendly. N8N is a good example where you could connect some platforms, and you don't have to code strictly, but you could visually create an algorithm. That capability of clicking and dragging some boxes of code could actually facilitate how people create their own algorithms. It could be very useful if the coding part of using the platform could be more user-friendly in terms of visual capability.

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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

"Overall, Spring Cloud Data Flow is a really good solution and a lot cheaper than a lot of infrastructure provided by big companies like Google or Amazon."

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

"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 dashboards in Spring Cloud Dataflow are quite valuable."

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

"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."

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"We particularly like the data angling feature of this solution. This gives us the ability to work on data transformations, join files, and carry out other data preparation tasks all in a single tool."

"Spotfire is a wonderful product with vast reporting and analytical capability."

"Spotfire is feature rich but not so complicated that users can't be trained to generate their own content."

"The flexibility, data preparation, and data wrangling abilities of the platform are exceptional."

"Driving details visualizations is the most valuable feature of this product to me."

"We used it pretty heavily in gathering data, which goes to our VPs. They are able to base their next revenue planning based on this metric. So, it has been invaluable."

"Real time analytics: TIBCO Spotfire links to the database and the dashboard updates automatically, which is great."

"I would recommend this product because it is intuitive with a fast learning curve and very powerful."

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Cons

"On the tool's online discussion forums, you may get stuck with an issue, making it an area where improvements are required."

"The documentation on offer is not that good."

"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."

"The visual user interface could use some help; it needs improvement."

"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 is not an easy-to-use tool, so improvements are required."

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

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"The handling and consumption of realtime data could be improved."

"The user interface could be more graphical, it would make it more user friendly and flexible."

"When you do the data loading, it is slow."

"There were problems with the initial setup. There is not a lot of documentation for implementation."

"Some of the syntax for custom expressions can be complicated and the learning curve for advanced work is steep."

"The initial setup is complicated and needs experience and knowledge."

"We would like to see some improvement in the default properties of the solution, so that there is less need for us to spend our time coding."

"The design of the UI could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"The price-point for this solution is negotiable depending on usage levels."

"I would describe TIBCO Spotfire as an averagely-priced product."

"The pricing seems competitive and reasonable. The value delivered by the product far exceeds the cost."

"The Tibco sales teams have been very difficult to work with - ignoring requests, misrepresenting level of demand, etc."

"The solution is affordable one."

"This product carries a monthly licensing charge, with the amount depending on the features that are to be included. This costs also covers the use of technical support."

"The cost is a few hundred dollars per user per year."

"In comparison to other solutions such as IBM Cognos, TIBCO Spotfire is more affordable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

11%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Healthcare Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	42

Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about TIBCO Spotfire?

TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. While they assisted with the setup, we conducted the POC ourselves.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Spotfire?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for TIBCO Spotfire appears fair, and I think they are fairly priced as far as the features are concerned.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Spotfire?

The web client of TIBCO Spotfire lacked the full authoring capabilities available in the analyst client. Source control for DXP files was limited compared to a Git-style workflow. For regulatory su...

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Overview

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.

Broadcom

TIBCO Spotfire is a versatile data analytics platform that can handle large datasets and be deployed on-premise or in the cloud. Its dynamic reporting, easy creation of dynamic dashboards, and highly customizable tool make it a valuable asset for process data analysis, industrial performance dashboards, problem root cause analysis, business intelligence, and real-time analytics for IoT devices in the energy sector.

The solution also offers data science functions, map visuals, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas. Spotfire has helped organizations deliver projects more efficiently and cost-effectively, allowing for faster data analysis.

TIBCO

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Allergan, ASSS de Montreal, Avantium, Blue River, Bank of Montreal, Citibank, FrieslandCampina, Hellmann Logistics, Merck, Novartis

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