We performed a comparison between Apache Spark and IBM Streams based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, Cloudera, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Hadoop.Apache Spark is ranked 1st in Hadoop with 60 reviews while IBM Streams is ranked 15th in Streaming Analytics with 5 reviews. Apache Spark is rated 8.4, while IBM Streams is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apache Spark writes "Reliable, able to expand, and handle large amounts of data well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Streams writes "A solution for data pipelines but has connector limitations". Apache Spark is most compared with Spring Boot, AWS Batch, Spark SQL, SAP HANA and Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, whereas IBM Streams is most compared with Confluent, Azure Stream Analytics, Apache Flink, Apache NiFi and Amazon MSK.
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