Qlik Compose vs StreamSets comparison

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Qlik and IBM are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Qlik is ranked #57, while IBM is ranked #28 with an average rating of 9.0. Qlik holds a 0.8% mindshare in DI, compared to IBM’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of Qlik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

StreamSets and Qlik Compose compete in the data integration category. StreamSets seems to have the upper hand in terms of ease of use and integration capabilities, while Qlik Compose excels in automation and data management.

Features: StreamSets is known for its ease of use, wide connector range, and ability to handle both batch and streaming data effectively. Users highlight the Control Hub and Data Collector for offering a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface. Seamless integration with platforms like AWS and Azure is highly valued. Qlik Compose, on the other hand, shines in automation, enabling warehouse design with minimal coding. It provides excellent data integration and management features, supporting synchronization across databases.

Room for Improvement: StreamSets users report issues with integration beyond Java platforms and call for better memory management and simpler logging. They also see room for enhancing security and usability, alongside documentation and community support improvements. Qlik Compose users desire stronger monitoring and data transformation capabilities. They look for enhanced handling of high-volume data, better custom coding language integration, and more intuitive user experiences.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StreamSets offers flexibility across public, hybrid, and on-premises cloud environments. Technical support reviews vary, from effective to requiring patience, with improvements desired in response times and communication. Qlik Compose primarily deploys on-premises and in private clouds, with users often relying on community and web resources. Technical support needs to be more user-friendly and responsive.

Pricing and ROI: StreamSets has multiple pricing models, including a free version and paid editions with advanced features, but costs are high for small businesses, leading to calls for more flexible pricing. Despite this, users find significant ROI in time savings and better data integration. Qlik Compose's pricing is also considered high, especially for corporate clients, suggesting a need for more competitive options. Both solutions offer valuable features that impact perceived value and ROI differently for users.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Qlik Compose

Ranking in Data Integration

57th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

StreamSets

Ranking in Data Integration

28th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Qlik Compose is 0.8%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StreamSets is 1.1%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
StreamSets	1.1%
Qlik Compose	0.8%
Other	98.1%

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Susheel A

Director - Metrics & Analytics at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Efficient data warehouse automation with robust features, but may require enhancements in user-friendly self-service options and pricing flexibility for broader corporate appeal

It could enhance its capabilities in the realm of self-service options as currently, it is more suited for individuals with technical proficiency who can create pages using it. When it comes to end users who may lack technical expertise, they are limited to toggling between existing developments. To empower end users to make critical changes without relying heavily on technical expertise, it would be beneficial to introduce more user-friendly features for development and modification. If it could incorporate correlation analysis capabilities into its platform, especially in a user-friendly manner, it would greatly enhance the tool's overall utility and make it an even more outstanding solution. There is a room for improvement regarding stability.

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SrinivasanSankar

Enterprise Solutions Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Enables effective batch loading with visual interface and enterprise support

One issue I observed with StreamSets is that the memory runs out quickly when processing large volumes of data. Because of this memory issue, we have to upgrade our EC2 boxes in the Amazon AWS infrastructure. I had to switch to a new EC2 box, even though the processor was not fully utilized. It would be beneficial if StreamSets addressed any potential memory leak issues to prevent unnecessary upgrades. Additionally, it would be a great enhancement if StreamSets could produce a lineage graph to visualize how the data has passed through the system.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"One of the most valuable features of this tool is its automation capabilities, allowing us to design the warehouse in an automated manner. Additionally, we can generate Data Lifecycle Policies (DLP) reports and efficiently implement updates and best practices based on proven design patterns."

"It is a scalable solution."

"One of the most valuable features was the ability to integrate multiple source systems that mainly used structured IDBMS versions."

"I like modeling and code generation. It has become a pretty handy tool because of its short ideation to delivery time. From the time you decide you are modeling a data warehouse, and once you finish the modeling, it generates all the code, generates all the tables. All you have to do is tick a few things, and you can produce a fully functional warehouse. I also like that they have added all the features I have asked for over four years."

"The most valuable is its excellence as a graphical data representation tool and the versatility it offers, especially with drill-down capabilities."

"Qlik Compose is good enough. It is user-friendly and intuitive."

"It's a stable solution."

"It can scale."

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"The best feature that I really like is the integration."

"For me, the most valuable features in StreamSets have to be the Data Collector and Control Hub, but especially the Data Collector. That feature is very elegant and seamlessly works with numerous source systems."

"StreamSets is the leader in the market."

"The entire user interface is very simple and the simplicity of creating pipelines is something that I like very much about it. The design experience is very smooth."

"StreamSets Transformer is a good feature because it helps you when you are developing applications and when you don't want to write a lot of code. That is the best feature overall."

"What I love the most is that StreamSets is very light. It's a containerized application. It's easy to use with Docker. If you are a large organization, it's very easy to use Kubernetes."

"The ability to have a good bifurcation rate and fewer mistakes is valuable."

"StreamSets data drift feature gives us an alert upfront so we know that the data can be ingested. Whatever the schema or data type changes, it lands automatically into the data lake without any intervention from us, but then that information is crucial to fix for downstream pipelines, which process the data into models, like Tableau and Power BI models. This is actually very useful for us. We are already seeing benefits. Our pipelines used to break when there were data drift changes, then we needed to spend about a week fixing it. Right now, we are saving one to two weeks. Though, it depends on the complexity of the pipeline, we are definitely seeing a lot of time being saved."

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Cons

"There should be proper documentation available for the implementation process."

"Qlik's ETL and data transformation could be better."

"It could enhance its capabilities in the realm of self-service options as currently, it is more suited for individuals with technical proficiency who can create pages using it."

"I'd like to have access to more developer training materials."

"It would be better if the first level of technical support were a bit more technically knowledgeable to solve the problem. I think they could also improve the injection of custom scripts. It is pretty difficult to add additional scripts. If the modeling doesn't give you what you want, and you want to change the script generated by the modeling, it is a bit more challenging than in most other products. It is very good with standard form type systems, but if you get a more complicated data paradigm, it tends to struggle with transforming that into a model."

"For more complex work, we are not using Qlik Compose because it cannot handle very high volumes at the moment. It needs the same batching capabilities that other ETL tools have. We can't batch the data into small chunks when transforming large amounts of data. It tries to do everything in one shot and that's where it fails."

"There could be more customization options."

"The solution has room for improvement in the ETL. They have an ETL, but when it comes to the monitoring portion, Qlik Compose doesn't provide a feature for monitoring."

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"The execution engine could be improved. When I was at their session, they were using some obscure platform to run. There is a controller, which controls what happens on that, but you should be able to easily do this at any of the cloud services, such as Google Cloud. You shouldn't have any issues in terms of how to run it with their online development platform or design platform, basically their execution engine. There are issues with that."

"Sometimes, it is not clear at first how to set up nodes. A site with an explanation of how each node works would be very helpful."

"One area for improvement could be the cloud storage server speed, as we have faced some latency issues here and there."

"We often faced problems, especially with SAP ERP. We struggled because many columns weren't integers or primary keys, which StreamSets couldn't handle. We had to restructure our data tables, which was painful. Also, pipeline failures were common, and data drifting wasn't addressed, which made things worse. Licensing was another issue we encountered."

"The design experience is the bane of our existence because their documentation is not the best. Even when they update their software, they don't publish the best information on how to update and change your pipeline configuration to make it conform to current best practices. We don't pay for the added support. We use the "freeware version." The user community, as well as the documentation they provide for the standard user, are difficult, at best."

"The monitoring visualization is not that user-friendly. It should include other features to visualize things, like how many records were streamed from a source to a destination on a particular date."

"Currently, we can only use the query to read data from SAP HANA. What we would like to see, as soon as possible, is the ability to read from multiple tables from SAP HANA. That would be a really good thing that we could use immediately. For example, if you have 100 tables in SQL Server or Oracle, then you could just point it to the schema or the 100 tables and ingestion information. However, you can't do that in SAP HANA since StreamSets currently is lacking in this. They do not have a multi-table feature for SAP HANA. Therefore, a multi-table origin for SAP HANA would be helpful."

"If the data processing in StreamSets takes a long time as compared to the previous solution, then we will reconsider why we use StreamSets."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is very expensive, I rate the solution a six."

"While they outperform Tableau, there's room for improvement in Qlik's pricing structures, especially for corporate clients like us."

"Its pricing is pretty much up to the mark. For smaller enterprises, it could be a big price to pay at the initial stage of operations, but the moment you have the Seed B or Seed C funding and you want to scale up your operations and aren't much worried about the funds, at that point in time, you would need a solution that could be scaled."

"StreamSets Data Collector is open source. One can utilize the StreamSets Data Collector, but the Control Hub is the main repository where all the jobs are present. Everything happens in Control Hub."

"The overall cost is very flexible so it is not a burden for our organization... However, the cost should be improved. For small and mid-size organizations it might be a challenge."

"I believe the pricing is not equitable."

"We are running the community version right now, which can be used free of charge."

"It's not so favorable for small companies."

"The pricing is affordable for any business."

"It has a CPU core-based licensing, which works for us and is quite good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

10%

Outsourcing Company

Comms Service Provider

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?

There are two products I know about * TimeXtender : Microsoft based, Transformation logic is quiet good and can easily be extended with T-SQL , Has a semantic layer that generates metat data for cu...

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What needs improvement with StreamSets?

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What is your primary use case for StreamSets?

We are using StreamSets for batch loading.

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What advice do you have for others considering StreamSets?

If asked, I definitely recommend StreamSets to other users. My overall rating for the solution is nine.

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Also Known As

Compose, Attunity Compose

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Overview

Qlik Compose enhances data management with ETL capabilities, data integration with CDC, and real-time replication. Its intuitive interface enables easy data modeling and automation, supporting various database integrations.

Qlik Compose is designed for efficient data preparation, migration, and warehouse generation. It incorporates ETL functionalities and data integration with CDC, allowing users to effortlessly create data marts without code. Its automation features facilitate warehouse design while graphical representations and connectivity options increase versatility across multiple sources. Users value its stability, scalability, and the support provided, although improvements in ETL functionalities, performance for large datasets, and NoSQL integration are needed. The solution is widely used in business intelligence with tools like Qlik Replicate for real-time data replication and requires direct SQL for complex transformations.

What are the key features of Qlik Compose?

ETL Capabilities: Simplifies data extraction, transformation, and loading
Data Integration with CDC: Enables real-time data replication
Intuitive Interface: Facilitates easy data modeling and automation
Drag-and-Drop Functionality: Streamlines data task management
Auto-Mapping: Enhances integration of multiple data sources
No-Code Data Marts Creation: Reduces dependency on technical skills

What benefits should users consider in the reviews?

Stability and Scalability: Reliable functioning for growing data needs
Technical Support: Availability of assistance for troubleshooting
Real-Time Replication Capabilities: Efficient data processing and analytics
Low-Code Development: Simplifies complex data handling processes

In industries, Qlik Compose is implemented for enhancing data preparation, migration, and warehousing. It is used in small projects or straightforward data integration tasks and supports business intelligence efforts by offering low-code capabilities, enabling companies to deliver tailored analytics solutions efficiently.

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StreamSets streamlines data pipeline creation, connecting data from multiple sources to destinations like cloud platforms with minimal coding. Its centralized platform and intuitive design enhance ETL and data migration processes.

StreamSets integrates seamlessly with analytics platforms, offering tools such as Data Collector and Control Hub to facilitate data ingestion, transformation, and machine learning integrations. Its user-friendly interface and ready connectors aid in configuring complex data pipelines. With built-in data drift resilience and scheduling options, users experience efficient, scalable data management, despite challenges like latency in cloud storage and interface enhancement needs. Users often employ StreamSets for batch loading, real-time data processing, and smart data pipeline management, offering comprehensive data integration solutions.

What are the key features of StreamSets?

Data Collector: Enables streamlined data collection and processing.
Control Hub: Centralizes management of data pipelines.
Minimal Coding: Simplifies pipeline configuration with limited code requirement.
Data Drift Resilience: Adapts to changes in data patterns effectively.

What benefits should users look for?

Time-Saving: Efficient processes reduce manual effort.
Scalability: Easily manages large datasets.
Integration: Connects with leading analytics and cloud platforms.
Real-Time Processing: Supports continuous data delivery for timely insights.

In industries like finance and technology, StreamSets supports data migration, machine learning integrations, and analytics by simplifying data transformation and enhancing decision-making capabilities through its robust pipeline management.

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Availity, BT Group, Humana, Deluxe, GSK, RingCentral, IBM, Shell, SamTrans, State of Ohio, TalentFulfilled, TechBridge

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