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Apache Spark Alternatives

4.4(46 Ratings)
Event Stream Processing

Considering alternatives to Apache Spark? See what this market Apache Spark users also considered in their purchasing decision. When evaluating different solutions, potential buyers compare competencies in categories such as evaluation and contracting, integration and deployment, service and support, and specific product capabilities.

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1. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.4
(216 Ratings)
My experience with Amazon Kinesis Data Analystics has been really good and positive, thanks to the community of amazon that help me with the setupRead all insights and reviews for Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

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  • Easier to integrate and deploy
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2. Confluent Platform

By Confluent

4.5
(158 Ratings)
It offers a leading-enterprise-grade event streaming platform built around the industry's de-facto standard Apache Kafka. It offers a robust set of tools for real-time data streaming, integration, and processing at scale, and in the latest versions it has incorporated data quality and data contracts with a rule engine to ease the data quality processes.Read all insights and reviews for Confluent Platform
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3. Google Cloud Dataflow

By Google

4.6
(134 Ratings)
Google Cloud Dataflow offers a scalable and cost-efficient way to build data pipelines and run them in real-time, and also offers data processing. The platform automates data cluster management and data infrastructure provisioning. It is a great tool for work rebalancing and data autoscaling.Read all insights and reviews for Google Cloud Dataflow
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4. Apache Storm

By Apache Software Foundation

4.5
(100 Ratings)
Apache Storm is an one of the best opensource, real-time processing and distributed computation system available. It comes with best fault tolerant and stateless in nature, increases the performance.Read all insights and reviews for Apache Storm

Where Apache Spark Scored Higher

  • Easier to integrate and deploy
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5. Cribl Stream

By Cribl

4.6
(82 Ratings)
I handled the PoC and implementation on my own, and it was smooth process. The platform is very efficient and I really appreciate that we can perform upgrades and push configurations with zero downtime. It gives us control over data pipeline without so much of hurdles. Read all insights and reviews for Cribl Stream
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6. Azure Stream Analytics

By Microsoft

4.3
(51 Ratings)
A powerful and versatile service that stands out a robust solution for real time data analysis and event processing. Provides seamless data integration which can ingest data from variety of sources, including IoT devices, social media, sensors, and applications. Its real time data processing ensures that businesses can make quick and informed decisions based on fresh and actionable insights. Its scalability and integration allows organization to adapt to changing data volumes effortlessly also enabling users to leverage the power of Azure ecosystem for more advanced analytics and machine learning. Its extensive connectivity offers a vast library of connectors to various data sources and sinks. Read all insights and reviews for Azure Stream Analytics
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7. Confluent Cloud

By Confluent

4.5
(46 Ratings)
Confluent Cloud is efficient and provides immense data computing power and it has also done well integrating with our different services. Having the effective and easily accessible operational support in the background of this tool truly makes it work for our needs.Read all insights and reviews for Confluent Cloud

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  • Easier to integrate and deploy
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8. Aiven for Apache Kafka

By Aiven

4.5
(36 Ratings)
Everything about Aiven has really been great. Personally i like the partition information about the size, offset etc. With it, it's very easy to create new clusters and enable connectivity with public cloud environments. Also, the user management is quite simple thus making it very easy to work with. Read all insights and reviews for Aiven for Apache Kafka
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Top Alternatives to Apache Spark

  • Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
  • Confluent Platform
  • Google Cloud Dataflow
  • Apache Storm
  • Cribl Stream
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Confluent Cloud
  • Aiven for Apache Kafka

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