The data integration tools market comprises stand-alone software products that allow organizations to combine data from multiple sources, including performing tasks related to data access, transformation, enrichment and delivery. Data integration tools enable use cases such as data engineering, operational data integration, delivering modern data architectures, and enabling less-technical data integration. Data integration tools are procured by data and analytics (D&A) leaders and their teams for use by data engineers or less-technical users, such as business analysts or data scientists. These products are consumed as SaaS or deployed on-premises, in public or private cloud, or in hybrid configurations.
Gartner defines an event broker as a technology that enables the publish-subscribe communication pattern between event producers and event consumers. An event broker can be delivered as hardware, as software or as a service. Event producers (also known as publishers or sources) publish events to a topic. Event consumers (also known as subscribers or sinks) subscribe to topics to see all related events. This means that event producers are typically unaware of, and decoupled from, event consumers. The role of the event broker is to mediate communications between event producers and event consumers
The market for ESP platforms consists of software subsystems that perform real-time computation on streaming event data. They execute calculations on unbounded input data continuously as it arrives, enabling immediate responses to current situations and/or storing results in files, object stores or other databases for later use. Examples of input data include clickstreams; copies of business transactions or database updates; social media posts; market data feeds; images; and sensor data from physical assets, such as mobile devices, machines and vehicles.