IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] vs IBM Spectrum Computing comparison

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"InfoSphere Streams was the one core product from the platform in which we were using. We were building a real-time response system and we built it on InfoSphere Streams."

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"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis.""The most valuable feature is the backup capability.""The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers.""This solution is working for both VTL and tape.""Easy to operate and use.""We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."

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"The UI was not interactive: Responses used to be very slow and hang up at times."

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"We have not been able to use deduplication.""We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning.""Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish.""This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly.""Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud.""SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."

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  • "This solution is expensive."
  • "Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market."
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    Top Answer:This solution is too expensive for a lot of our customers.
    Top Answer:The biggest problem is the lack of documentation in general, and documentation in Spanish, in particular.
    Ranking
    Unranked
    In Hadoop
    7th
    out of 22 in Hadoop
    Views
    215
    Comparisons
    192
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    240
    Rating
    9.0
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    InfoSphere BigInsights
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    Overview
    IBM BigInsights delivers a rich set of advanced analytics capabilities that allows enterprises to analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data in its native format. The software combines open source Apache Hadoop with IBM innovations including sophisticated text analytics, IBM BigSheets for data exploration, IBM Big SQL for SQL access to data in Hadoop, and a range of performance, security and administrative features. The result is a cost-effective and user-friendly solution for complex, big data analytics.

    IBM Spectrum Computing uses intelligent workload and policy-driven resource management to optimize resources across the data center, on premises and in the cloud. Now up to 150X faster and scalable to over 160,000 cores, IBM provides you with the latest advances in software-defined infrastructure to help you unleash the power of your distributed mission-critical high performance computing (HPC), analytics and big data applications as well as a new generation open source frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark.

    Sample Customers
    Coherent Path Inc., Optibus, Delhaize America, Diyotta Inc., Ernst & Young, Teikoku Databank Ltd., NCSU, Vestas
    London South Bank University, Transvalor, Infiniti Red Bull Racing, Genomic
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider31%
    Media Company16%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Large Enterprise57%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Hadoop while IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 7th in Hadoop with 6 reviews. IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] is rated 7.6, while IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] writes "The BIQSQL implementation is fully SQL ANSI compliant, but I have found a lot of issues in Fluid Query". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Computing writes "Provides stable backup for our databases and has good technical support ". IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] is most compared with , whereas IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic.

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