SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 15, 2017) - StreamSets Inc., a provider of innovative data in motion middleware, today unveiled results from its first user community survey. The survey, conducted earlier this month, yields insights into real-world data movement as reported by more than 100 enterprises across a range of industries from banking to education. Results revealed the StreamSets community uses StreamSets Data Collector™ primarily for integrating streaming and batch data for immediate use in both big data and traditional applications. StreamSets Data Collector has now been downloaded more than 150,000 times, and 20 percent of the Fortune 500 have been identified among these users.
Full Stream Ahead
According to the survey, use of streaming data is moving ahead quickly, with 72 percent of respondents using StreamSets Data Collector for streaming applications. Of these, two-thirds (48 percent) are integrating batch and streaming data within their pipelines, while the remaining one-third (24 percent) are streaming only. Twenty-eight percent are employing StreamSets solely for movement of batch data.
Consistent with use of streaming data, most respondents demanded very quick data consumption, with over one-half (56 percent) requiring analysis of the incoming data within minutes and 15 percent needing analysis performed within seconds of arrival.
For Both Old School and New School Use Cases
In keeping with StreamSets Data Collector's design as general-purpose data-in-motion middleware, a large majority (84 percent) of responding enterprises use it for big data applications as well as traditional data analysis. Traditional uses include dashboards (88 percent), interactive SQL queries (64 percent) and data warehouse (51 percent). Big data applications include customer insights (50 percent), IoT (23 percent) and cybersecurity (10 percent).
While it's no surprise that Hadoop was cited as the most popular destination for data pipeline, search-oriented stores, such as Apache Solr and Elasticsearch, were also significantly represented (44 percent). Spark shows strong penetration at 26 percent, closing in on NoSQL data stores (28 percent). Traditional databases are used by 32 percent of respondents. Approximately one-half of respondents are moving data into multiple destination types.
Data in the Cloud Reaching Critical Mass
When it comes to the location of the data, cloud environments are used by two-thirds of the enterprises surveyed. Sixty-six percent use StreamSets Data Collector in a public or private cloud while 58 percent use StreamSets Data Collector on premises. Pointing to a hybrid reality, only 12 percent of all enterprises surveyed were performing data movement solely within a public cloud environment. Interestingly, nearly one-quarter (22 percent) of respondents listed cloud data migration as one of their use cases.