We performed a comparison between Azure Stream Analytics and PubSub+ Event Broker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Streaming Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use Azure Stream Analytics for simulation and internal activities."
"Provides deep integration with other Azure resources."
"Real-time analytics is the most valuable feature of this solution. I can send the collected data to Power BI in real time."
"The most valuable features of Azure Stream Analytics are the ease of provisioning and the interface is not terribly complex."
"The most valuable features are the IoT hub and the Blob storage."
"I like the way the UI looks, and the real-time analytics service is aligned to this. That can be helpful if I have to use this on a production service."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to create a query using SQ."
"It's scalable as a cloud product."
"We like the seamless flexibility in protocol exchange offering without writing a code."
"The most valuable feature of PubSub+ Event Broker is the scaling integration. Prior to using the solution, it was done manually with a file, and it can be done instantly live."
"This solution reduces the latency to access changes in real-time and the effort required to onboard a new subscriber. It also reduces the maintenance of each of those interfaces because now the publisher and subscribers are decoupled. Event Broker handles all the communication and engagement. We can just push one update, then we don't have to know who is consuming it and what's happening to that publication downstream. It's all done by the broker, which is a huge benefit of using Event Broker."
"The valuable feature of PubSub+ Event Broker is the speed of processing, publishing, and consumption."
"The topic hierarchy is pretty flexible. Once you have the subject defined just about anybody who knows Java can come onboard. The APIs are all there."
"Guaranteed Messaging allows for us to transport messages between on-prem and the cloud without any loss of data."
"The way we can replicate information and send it to several subscribers is most valuable. It can be used for any kind of business where you've got multiple users who need information. Any company, such as LinkedIn, with a huge number of subscribers and any business, such as publishing, supermarket, airline, or shipping can use it."
"In my assessment of Solace against other products — as I was responsible for evaluating various products and bringing the right tool into companies in the past — I worked with multiple platforms like RabbitMQ, Confluent, Kafka, and various other tools in the market. But I found the event mesh capability to be a very interesting as well as fulfilling capability, towards what we want to achieve from a digital-integration-strategy point of view... It's distributed, yet it is intelligently connected. It can also span and I can plug and play any number of brokers into the event mesh, so it's a great deal. That's a differentiator."
"The UI should be a little bit better from a usability perspective."
"Early in the process, we had some issues with stability."
"Azure Stream Analytics could improve by having clearer metrics as to the scale, more metrics around the data set size that is flowing through it, and performance tuning recommendations."
"Its features for event imports and architecture could be enhanced."
"The only challenge was that the streaming analytics area in Azure Stream Analytics could not meet our company's expectations, making it a component where improvements are required."
"Sometimes when we connect Power BI, there is a delay or it throws up some errors, so we're not sure."
"One area that could use improvement is the handling of data validation. Currently, there is a review process, but sometimes the validation fails even before the job is executed. This results in wasted time as we have to rerun the job to identify the failure."
"There may be some issues when connecting with Microsoft Power BI because we are providing the input and output commands, and there's a chance of it being delayed while connecting."
"It could be cheaper. It could also have easier usage. It is a brilliant product, but it is quite complex to use."
"Some of the feature's gaps with some of the open-source vendors have been closed in a lot of ways. Being more agile and addressing those earlier could be an area for improvement."
"We have requested to be able to get into the payload to do dynamic topic hierarchy building. A current workaround is using the message's header, where the business data can be put into this header and be used for a dynamic topic lookup. I want to see this in action when there are a couple of hundred cases live. E.g., how does it perform? From an administration perspective, is the ease of use there?"
"The product should allow third-party agents to be installed. Currently, it is quite proprietary."
"The integrations could improve in PubSub+ Event Broker."
"I would like them to design topic and queue schemas, mapping them to the enterprise data structure."
"The licensing and the cost are the major pitfalls."
"A challenge we currently have is Solace's ability to integrate with single sign-on in our Active Directory and other single sign-on tools and platforms that any company would have. It's important for the platforms to work. Typically, they support only LDAP-based connectivity to our SQL Servers."
Azure Stream Analytics is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 22 reviews while PubSub+ Event Broker is ranked 10th in Streaming Analytics with 15 reviews. Azure Stream Analytics is rated 8.2, while PubSub+ Event Broker is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stream Analytics writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly, but could be priced better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PubSub+ Event Broker writes "Event life cycle management changes the way a designer or architect will design a topic and discover what is available". Azure Stream Analytics is most compared with Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, Amazon MSK and Apache Flink, whereas PubSub+ Event Broker is most compared with Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, VMware RabbitMQ and Confluent. See our Azure Stream Analytics vs. PubSub+ Event Broker report.
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