We performed a comparison between Apache Spark Streaming and Spring Cloud Data Flow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Amazon, Confluent and others in Streaming Analytics."Apache Spark Streaming's most valuable feature is near real-time analytics. The developers can build APIs easily for a code-steaming pipeline. The solutions have an ecosystem of integration with other stock services."
"Apache Spark Streaming has features like checkpointing and Streaming API that are useful."
"The solution is better than average and some of the valuable features include efficiency and stability."
"Apache Spark Streaming was straightforward in terms of maintenance. It was actively developed, and migrating from an older to a newer version was quite simple."
"It's the fastest solution on the market with low latency data on data transformations."
"As an open-source solution, using it is basically free."
"Apache Spark Streaming is versatile. You can use it for competitive intelligence, gathering data from competitors, or for internal tasks like monitoring workflows."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"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."
"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 service structure of Apache Spark Streaming can improve. There are a lot of issues with memory management and latency. There is no real-time analytics. We recommend it for the use cases where there is a five-second latency, but not for a millisecond, an IOT-based, or the detection anomaly-based. Flink as a service is much better."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"The solution itself could be easier to use."
"In terms of improvement, the UI could be better."
"There could be an improvement in the area of the user configuration section, it should be less developer-focused and more business user-focused."
"It was resource-intensive, even for small-scale applications."
"We would like to have the ability to do arbitrary stateful functions in Python."
"The cost and load-related optimizations are areas where the tool lacks and needs improvement."
"Some of the features, like the monitoring tools, are not very mature and are still evolving."
"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 configurations could be better. Some configurations are a little bit time-consuming in terms of trying to understand using the Spring Cloud documentation."
Apache Spark Streaming is ranked 8th in Streaming Analytics with 6 reviews while Spring Cloud Data Flow is ranked 10th in Streaming Analytics with 1 review. Apache Spark Streaming is rated 8.0, while Spring Cloud Data Flow is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apache Spark Streaming writes "Easy deployment as a cluster and good documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spring Cloud Data Flow writes "Simple programming model, low maintenance, but interface could improve". Apache Spark Streaming is most compared with Amazon Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics, Confluent, Apache Pulsar and Starburst Enterprise, whereas Spring Cloud Data Flow is most compared with Apache Flink, Google Cloud Dataflow, Azure Data Factory, Mule Anypoint Platform and TIBCO BusinessWorks.
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