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 1.0% mindshare in the category. TIBCO is ranked #9 in BIT , with an average rating of 8.2, and holds a 1.3% 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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88% willing to recommend

TIBCO Spotfire

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3,967 Comparison Views

97% willing to recommend

Spring Cloud Data Flow

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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 (17th)

TIBCO Spotfire

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (9th)

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 1.0%, down 1.2% compared to last year.
TIBCO Spotfire, on the other hand, focuses on BI (Business Intelligence) Tools, holds 1.3% mindshare, up 1.2% since last year.

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Spring Cloud Data Flow	1.0%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	3.8%
SSIS	3.7%
Other	91.5%

Data Integration

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
TIBCO Spotfire	1.3%
Microsoft Power BI	7.4%
Tableau Enterprise	5.9%
Other	85.4%

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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reviewer2835996

Operations Analyst at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

Interactive dashboards have transformed reporting and now support real-time data-driven decisions

One area that could improve in TIBCO Spotfire is performance with very large data sets. I use the advanced scripting feature less often, but the visualization and dashboard features are very useful in my daily work with TIBCO Spotfire. TIBCO Spotfire can be improved in handling very large data, faster dashboard loading, simpler advanced scripting, and better customization options for visualizations. Integration with some external tools in TIBCO Spotfire can be smoother, and the user interface for advanced features could be more beginner-friendly. A more intuitive navigation system, a cleaner interface, and an easier drag-and-drop option for report building would also make it more useful.

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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

"The dashboards in Spring Cloud Dataflow are quite valuable."

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

"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 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 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."

"This product will assist us in saving costs in many ways: No longer need to continue paying high fees for proprietary software, reduce the number of software engineers needed to support the product, and achieve faster time to market by using this product for our middleware."

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"R and automation services."

"TIBCO Spotfire integrates with R and Python, offering a differentiator from the competition."

"I ran one POC on a dataset over 100 GB and Spotfire performed as well as it does with small datasets."

"It's quite stable and reliable."

"In my previous role, we replaced Cognos with Spotfire and the benefits were plentiful, including but not limited to: Improved types of reporting/visualisations, significantly more malleable than Cognos, and advanced analysis features."

"Also, the time and sanity saved in no longer sharing PowerPoint slides or Excel spreadsheets throughout the organization can be priceless."

"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."

"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."

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Cons

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The documentation on offer is not that good."

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"The layered features within Spotfire can make it a bit complicated sometimes as compared to Power BI."

"The initial setup is complex when you use Spotfire Server."

"Technical support is acceptable, but not superior."

"The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."

"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."

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

"When it comes to data manipulation, there are features which are good, but one of the features which has really been missing in Spotfire is an offline ability for data manipulation."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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 solution provides value for money, and we are currently using its community edition."

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

"The ROI is nearly impossible to calculate."

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

"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 of TIBCO Spotfire could improve. It should be less expensive. It's the most expensive visualization tool in our company."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

10%

Retailer

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

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	20
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	44

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Spotfire?

I really had no control in the area of pricing, setup cost, and licensing as I was just the end-user of the product.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Spotfire?

I think TIBCO Spotfire could be improved by having better training, as the setup is probably the hardest aspect to get familiar with. Once you do, it becomes straightforward. Better training and ea...

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What is your primary use case for TIBCO Spotfire?

My main use case for TIBCO Spotfire is to showcase and visualize large bodies of data in charts and categorize them to identify trends and determine what works and what does not work from an analyt...

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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.

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TIBCO Spotfire offers a robust analytics platform known for its seamless data integration, advanced analytics automation, and powerful data visualization capabilities, providing dynamic dashboards and extensive customization to support decision-making.

TIBCO Spotfire stands out as a versatile analytics tool that improves data handling and visualization. It integrates with multiple data sources and tools, efficiently managing large data volumes. Users can create interactive visualizations and dashboards with diverse customization options using R, Python, HTML, and JavaScript. Spotfire's scalability and stability facilitate real-time analytics, data exploration, and collaborative decision-making, while its comprehensive connectivity supports different systems and databases.

What are the crucial features of TIBCO Spotfire?

Seamless Integration: Connects with numerous data sources effectively.
Advanced Analytics Automation: Streamlines analytical operations for efficiency.
Excellent Data Visualization: Enhances understanding through interactive visuals.
In-Memory Processing: Speeds up large volume data handling.
Extensive Customization: Uses R, Python, HTML, and JavaScript for tailored experiences.

What benefits should you expect from TIBCO Spotfire?

Scalability: Grows with organizational expansion.»
Stability: Ensures consistent performance.
Comprehensive Connectivity: Links diverse databases and systems seamlessly.
Collaborative Decision-Making: Fosters teamwork through shared insights.
Timely Insights: Offers quick access to crucial data.

TIBCO Spotfire finds applications across industries such as banking, biotech, oil and gas, and services, facilitating data-driven decision-making in business operations, finance, and clinical studies. It empowers businesses with data integration, predictive model analytics, and real-time insights for comprehensive data exploration and forecasting.

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

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