We performed a comparison between Azure Stream Analytics and PubSub+ Event Broker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Streaming Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Azure Stream Analytics are the ease of provisioning and the interface is not terribly complex."
"Provides deep integration with other Azure resources."
"It's scalable as a cloud product."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"I like the way the UI looks, and the real-time analytics service is aligned to this. That can be helpful if I have to use this on a production service."
"I appreciate this solution because it leverages open-source technologies. It allows us to utilize the latest streaming solutions and it's easy to develop."
"The most valuable features are the IoT hub and the Blob storage."
"I like all the connected ecosystems of Microsoft, it is really good with other BI tools that are easy to connect."
"The most valuable feature of PubSub+ Event Broker is the scaling integration. Prior to using the solution, it was done manually with a file, and it can be done instantly live."
"Guaranteed Messaging allows for us to transport messages between on-prem and the cloud without any loss of data."
"The way we can replicate information and send it to several subscribers is most valuable. It can be used for any kind of business where you've got multiple users who need information. Any company, such as LinkedIn, with a huge number of subscribers and any business, such as publishing, supermarket, airline, or shipping can use it."
"One of the main reasons for using PubSub+ is that it is a proper event manager that can handle events in a reactive way."
"The topic hierarchy is pretty flexible. Once you have the subject defined just about anybody who knows Java can come onboard. The APIs are all there."
"When it comes to granularity, you can literally do anything regarding how the filtering works."
"As of now, the most valuable aspects are the topic-based subscription and the fanout exchange that we are using."
"The event portal and the diversity of deployment options in a hybrid landscape are the most valuable features."
"If something goes wrong, it's very hard to investigate what caused it and why."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"I would like to have a contact individual at Microsoft."
"Sometimes when we connect Power BI, there is a delay or it throws up some errors, so we're not sure."
"The solution offers a free trial, however, it is too short."
"There may be some issues when connecting with Microsoft Power BI because we are providing the input and output commands, and there's a chance of it being delayed while connecting."
"The solution's interface could be simpler to understand for non-technical people."
"Easier scalability and more detailed job monitoring features would be helpful."
"The licensing and the cost are the major pitfalls."
"The section on observability pertains to understanding the functioning of an event crash. Instead of focusing on how the crash occurs, attention is given to the observable aspects, such as a memory pipeline where one person pushes messages and another reads them. However, this pipeline often encounters issues, such as the reader being unavailable, causing the system to become stuck and preventing the messages from moving forward. This can lead to the pipeline being permanently stalled."
"The ease of management could be approved. The GUI is very good, but to configure and manage these devices programmatically in the software version is not easy. For example, if I would like to spin up a new software broker, then I could in theory use the API, but it would require a considerable amount of development effort to do so. There should be a tool, or something that Solace supports, that we could use for this, e.g., a platform like Terraform where we could use infrastructure as code to configure our source appliances."
"For improvements, I would suggest increasing the max payload size to a limit of 100MB or more. The current max payload size is limited to 5MB."
"We have requested to be able to get into the payload to do dynamic topic hierarchy building. A current workaround is using the message's header, where the business data can be put into this header and be used for a dynamic topic lookup. I want to see this in action when there are a couple of hundred cases live. E.g., how does it perform? From an administration perspective, is the ease of use there?"
"The product should allow third-party agents to be installed. Currently, it is quite proprietary."
"I would like them to design topic and queue schemas, mapping them to the enterprise data structure."
"A challenge we currently have is Solace's ability to integrate with single sign-on in our Active Directory and other single sign-on tools and platforms that any company would have. It's important for the platforms to work. Typically, they support only LDAP-based connectivity to our SQL Servers."
Azure Stream Analytics is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 22 reviews while PubSub+ Event Broker is ranked 10th in Streaming Analytics with 15 reviews. Azure Stream Analytics is rated 8.2, while PubSub+ Event Broker is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stream Analytics writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly, but could be priced better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PubSub+ Event Broker writes "Event life cycle management changes the way a designer or architect will design a topic and discover what is available". Azure Stream Analytics is most compared with Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, Amazon MSK and Apache Flink, whereas PubSub+ Event Broker is most compared with Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, VMware Tanzu Data Services and Confluent. See our Azure Stream Analytics vs. PubSub+ Event Broker report.
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