Item: Spotfire Streaming
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire Streaming

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire Streaming is used in a variety of aspects of the business. It is used in front office trading, to middle office reporting, to back-office data processing and aggregation.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Spotfire Streaming is best at rapid prototyping
Real time market data processing and signal generation
Processing table based data

Cons

Cannot achieve ultra low latency
Great for small applications, but does not scale elegantly
Makes multithreading easy, but does not allow fine controls

Return on Investment

Allowed us very fast time to market
Inhibited our ability to scale some applications

Alternatives Considered

No other complex event processing (CEP) was being compared.

Other Software Used

Eclipse, kdb++

Likelihood to Recommend

Spotfire Streaming is great at rapid prototyping. This can be a great tool for analysts without an in-depth programming background and allows them to quickly write efficient programs.

Spotfire Streaming Training

Training Types Used

Self-taught

Learning curve of StreamBase was light. Knowledge and training were mostly done internally.

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Manish Patel
commented 6 years ago
Thanks for the good review! We are glad you like our Time to Market, Visual Programming, and real-time capabilities. We take your feedback seriously as we are continuously improving Spotfire Streaming. In regards to the areas of enhancements you mentioned (more integration with other technologies, better documentation), have you considered submitting or voting for them in the Spotfire Ideas portal (ideas.spotfire.com)? The Spotfire Idea portal allows you to submit your own ideas, vote on suggestions from others and easily see when one of your ideas have been implemented. Regarding scalability - Recently GA'ed - Spotfire Streaming edition SB10 is fully Cloud-enabled with support for building and deploying applications as docker images to a wide variety of cloud operating environments. SB10 is a major upgrade to the way Spotfire Streaming applications run, moving from a single execution engine model to integrated support for clustered operation, which provides powerful features for enterprise applications, such as automatic transactionality and built-in support for continuous availability, Fault Tolerance and Disaster Recovery. At the same time, SB10 enhances the easy to use Spotfire Streaming Studio programming interface that allows developers to quickly build the business logic of a streaming analytics application with drag and drop efficiency.

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