IBM StreamSets Reviews & Product Details

IBM StreamSets is a robust streaming data integration tool for hybrid, multi-cloud environments that enables real-time decision making. It allows ingestion and in-flight transformation of structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data from streaming sources, and reliably delivers trusted data into diverse destinations. Flexible deployment options promote security, cost-effectiveness and performance. With several pre-built connectors, an intuitive no-code/low-code interface, and automatic adaptability to data drifts, StreamSets accelerates data pipeline operationalization. It integrates with IBM’s broader data integration capabilities, enabling reliable pipelines that unify multiple data integration patterns, underpinned by data observability capabilities for continuous data quality monitoring and remediation. That’s why the largest companies in the world trust StreamSets to power millions of data pipelines for modern analytics, data science, smart applications, and hybrid integration.

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IBM

Discussions

IBM StreamSets Community

Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Natasha Collins

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

20 months

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User Insights

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Implementation Time

4 months

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Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/27/2020

"Easy to use and very nice interface"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM StreamSets?

The tool had a lot of options to integrate with different protocols, language and origin. We used this tool to integrate it with Kafka/Aws, send emails and develop different types of data feed. The user interface was quite nice and easy to use. Be it a simple task or a complex task, we were always able to find a processor or executor to achieve our goal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM StreamSets?

Since the tool was new, there was a limited support on the internet. Ask streamsets page is helpful but I expected a developed ecosystem. Sometimes we faced issue with using known libraries like moment.js. It's a pain to maintain these libraries in your server. We had to use different language to implement certain module because Javascript library for that task was not supported. So our pipelines looked like a bunch of lot of processors each having a different language/framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/18/2021

"User friendly interface"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM StreamSets?

Very easy to use and understand at very first time itself Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM StreamSets?

Nothing much but very few minimal things like code suggestions when using scripting languages like groovy, jython and javascript Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM StreamSets:

I suggest it as one of the best ETL/ELT tool for data ingestion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM StreamSets solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mostly I worked on data movement from different sources to different destinations involving many transformations. Worked on both batch processing and live streaming modes. Worked on triggering events for notifications based on certain conditions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ayushman D.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/29/2020

"Great product with a potential to become the best for Big Data"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM StreamSets?

The sheer number of connections (origins, destinations, processors, etc) and additional things like webhook/notifications are among the best features offered by streamsets data collector. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM StreamSets?

Too many frequent errors in some cases (like S3 destination) which are not internally retried seamlessly and ends up failing the pipeline. Due to this, a lot of manual intervention is required on a day to day basis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harry Kim B.

Operations Country Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/27/2020

"It was powerful but lots of jobs failure"

3.5/5

What do you like best about IBM StreamSets?

This tool can connect from the ftp or mft server to our MSSQ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM StreamSets?

The jobs designed to our project are usually failing which led our team a lot of monitoring works and manual processing of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM StreamSets:

Maybe, if we can add more real-time support that can cater all time-zones and making the tool more user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM StreamSets solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's about a scheduled extracting and storing of data from one server to another. This is very beneficial to our live dashboards which need a real time update for our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sai Paramahamsa P.

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/21/2020

"Streamsets is an amazing tool for data movement across environments seamlessly"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM StreamSets?

Developer friendly user interface and reasonable speed of data transfer across various databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM StreamSets?

Debugging is a pain in Streamsets because of the exhaustive Java logs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM StreamSets:

The support team of Streamsets is very committed and will always help tweak the software for any specific but highly used components that are missing in the current version. So take advantage and get the best version of this tool for your enterprise needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM StreamSets solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Streamsets for both batch and near real-time data ingestion and manipulation into our enterprise data warehouse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chandrashekhar J.

Associate Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/29/2020

"Good Streaming application with flexibility of use and set up"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM StreamSets?

Easy setup, flexible product. Can work with variety of databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM StreamSets?

Connection issues, at times data is captured during failure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM StreamSets:

Streamsets is highly customizable streaming application. However before selecting the application user needs to analyze data transfer requirement and mode of transfer (Batch or streaming). The data conversion nodes are good, but needs to be configured in proper way. Heavy processing or file conversion may slow down the process. Need to have enough memory to support requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM StreamSets solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using the tool as ETL job on regular basis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/19/2021

"Streamsets review"

3.5/5

What do you like best about IBM StreamSets?

Debugging, ease of use. Streamsets was a useful tool for ETL processes. The difference from other tools it has is that it has a lot of transformations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM StreamSets?

Lots of transformations, real-time processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Investment Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/21/2021

"Best Work flow for Tracking and processing application with Automation skill"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM StreamSets?

Integrating different components and create pipelines and Preview the pipeline to see whether the pipeline works or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM StreamSets?

No Specific dislike as off now, Everything was best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.