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Vendor: IBM
4.2 out of 5

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StreamSets mindshare

As of August 2025, the mindshare of StreamSets in the Data Integration category stands at 1.6%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Insurance Company
9%
Retailer
6%
Government
5%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Healthcare Company
5%
Real Estate/Law Firm
5%
Comms Service Provider
4%
Educational Organization
4%
University
3%
Wholesaler/Distributor
3%
Media Company
3%
Logistics Company
3%
Transportation Company
2%
Construction Company
2%
Hospitality Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Non Profit
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Wellness & Fitness Company
1%
Mining And Metals Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
1%
Non Tech Company
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Enterprise Solutions Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of StreamSets
Apr 2, 2025
Enables effective batch loading with visual interface and enterprise support

Pros

"StreamSets is the leader in the market."

Cons

"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 infrastructure."
Ved Prakash Yadav - PeerSpot user
Senior Data Platform Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of StreamSets
Apr 16, 2024
Useful for data transformation and helps with column encryption

Pros

"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 customize it to do what you need. Many other tools have started to use features similar to those introduced by StreamSets, like automated workflows that are easy to set up. "

Cons

"We often faced problems, especially with SAP ERP. We struggled because many columns weren't integers or primary keys, which StreamSets couldn't handle. We had to restructure our data tables, which was painful. Also, pipeline failures were common, and data drifting wasn't addressed, which made things worse. Licensing was another issue we encountered. "
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Sales Manager at Soft Hostings Limited
Verified user of StreamSets
Apr 2, 2023
Simplified pipelines and helped us break down data silos within our organization

Pros

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

Cons

"The documentation is inadequate and has room for improvement because the technical support does not regularly update their documentation or the knowledge base."
Reyansh Kumar - PeerSpot user
Technical Specialist at Accenture
Verified user of StreamSets
Mar 13, 2023
We no longer need to hire highly skilled data engineers to create and monitor data pipelines

Pros

"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."

Cons

"They need to improve their customer care services. Sometimes it has taken more than 48 hours to resolve an issue. That should be reduced. They are aware of small or generic issues, but not the more technical or deep issues. For those, they require some time, generally 48 to 72 hours to respond. That should be improved."
Kevin Kathiem Mutunga - PeerSpot user
Chief software engineer at Appnomu Business Services
Verified user of StreamSets
Apr 5, 2023
Enables us to build data pipelines without knowing how to code and helped us break down data silos within our organization

Pros

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

Cons

"Visualization and monitoring need to be improved and refined."
Ramesh Kuppuswamy - PeerSpot user
Senior Software Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of StreamSets
Jan 25, 2023
Eradicated our data silos, integrating all data files into one central system

Pros

"The ETL capabilities are very useful for us. We extract and transform data from multiple data sources, into a single, consistent data store, and then we put it in our systems. We typically use it to connect our Apache Kafka with data lakes. That process is smooth and saves us a lot of time in our production systems."

Cons

"The software is very good overall. Areas for improvement are the error logging and the version history. I would like to see better, more detailed error logging information."
Sumesh Gansar - PeerSpot user
Product Marketing Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of StreamSets
Jan 25, 2023
We are now able to run pipelines that scale horizontally, improving efficiency and significantly reducing workload

Pros

"For me, the most valuable features in StreamSets have to be the Data Collector and Control Hub, but especially the Data Collector. That feature is very elegant and seamlessly works with numerous source systems. "

Cons

"In terms of the product, I don't think there is any room for improvement because it is very good. One small area of improvement that is very much needed is on the knowledge base side. Sometimes, it is not very clear how to set up a certain process or a certain node for a person who's using the platform for the first time."
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Software Engineer at Soft Hostings Limited
Verified user of StreamSets
Sep 18, 2024
It's lightweight and well-integrated, and it saves a lot of money and time

Pros

"What I love the most is that StreamSets is very light. It's a containerized application. It's easy to use with Docker. If you are a large organization, it's very easy to use Kubernetes."

Cons

"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. "