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Apache Pulsar vs. IBM Event Automation

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apache Pulsar
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed messaging and streaming platform originally created at Yahoo! and now an Apache Software Foundation project. It is free and open source, available under the Apache License, version 2.0.N/A
IBM Event Automation
Score 0.0 out of 10
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IBM Event Automation enables businesses to accelerate their event-driven efforts. The event streams, event endpoint management and event processing capabilities help lay the foundation of an event-driven architecture for unlocking the value of events.N/A
Pricing
Apache PulsarIBM Event Automation
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Apache PulsarIBM Event Automation
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Apache PulsarIBM Event Automation
Considered Both Products
Apache Pulsar

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IBM Event Automation
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Event Automation
Al have different use cases. But ibms is the most flexible
Jacqueline Ruth | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jacqueline Ruth
Subcontract Administrator
Chose IBM Event Automation
While it is very great product, I do not find it stacks up against IBM COGNOS ANALYTICS in terms of usability, integrations and reliability.
Engr Aijaz Ali Khushk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Engr Aijaz Ali Khushk
Project Engineer
Chose IBM Event Automation
In Event Streams, applications send data by creating a message and sending it to a topic. To receive messages, applications subscribe to a topic. High availability and reliability. Event Streams offers a highly available and reliable Apache Kafka service running on IBM Cloud. …
Chose IBM Event Automation
We evaluated Confluent Cloud, Amazon MSK and self managed Kafka. Overall IBM Event Streams has the best documentation and the team backing it up has deep technical knowledge and advice.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Event Automation
We've evaluated Confluent Kafka and the price point of Message Hub is excellent. The support has been great. Message Hub provides the same number of features that Apache Kafka provides which has been tremendous.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Event Automation
We are still in the evaluation process. To enable an event streaming platform for enterprise, IBM Event Streams is a strong candidate due to the ease of use and setup in the cloud. There are many capabilities we are trying to understand to see if IBM Event Streams is the right …
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Apache PulsarIBM Event Automation
Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Confluent
Confluent
Score 9.9 out of 10
Confluent
Confluent
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 6.6 out of 10
Spotfire Streaming
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Score 6.6 out of 10
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User Testimonials
Apache PulsarIBM Event Automation
Likelihood to Recommend
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IBM Event Streams is well suited for companies developing event driven Microservices. One of the biggest challenger with microservices is that your data gets distributed into little silos - event streaming (or better known as event sourcing) allows you to get a central source of truth in your event store. We are taking this approach with IBM Event Streams and it is well suited for building an event streaming / sourcing architecture.
Hanz van Aardt | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros
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  • It is adaptive and helps us create more engaging experiences on our platforms.
  • The Key metrics dashboard is rich with insights.
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Anonymous
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Cons
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  • Even if you have experience with other event streaming software, you'll still have to take the IBM course because of its complexity.
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Anonymous
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Usability
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The product was very user friendly and extremely easy to get started with. The documentation is excellent and the free tier makes it very easy to get started with without having to make deep or long term financial commitments.
Hanz van Aardt | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Support Rating
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I met with the support team and they have deep technical and development understanding of the needs and the problems which IBM Event Streams addresses. If you are looking for a product backed by a highly technical support team then IBM Event Streams is probably the best choice. I was specifically impressed by the level of technical understanding my support team demonstrated.
Hanz van Aardt | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered
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We are still in the evaluation process. To enable an event streaming platform for enterprise, IBM Event Streams is a strong candidate due to the ease of use and setup in the cloud. There are many capabilities we are trying to understand to see if IBM Event Streams is the right fit for our needs. I would rate its platform behind Confluent Cloud.
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Return on Investment
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  • In using downstreams, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, makes us feel that there's no upgrades and other than that there's poor marketing of the product.
  • The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing.
  • Lack of visibility into topic depth , Monitoring capabilities
Engr Aijaz Ali Khushk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Engr Aijaz Ali Khushk
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