Apify vs StreamSets Platform: Which is a better fit?

Jared J

Marketing Specialist

I like how easy it is to extract data from different web pages, the templates are very good, the system works smoothly, the proxy service is excellent, the automated web scraping is very effective.

It's a little difficult for me to navigate the menu.

Between the awesome platform, the fantastic scrapers and the epic customer service, Apify is an absolute force.

David D

Founder

However, their support simply never got back to me even after I followed up with them. Horrible customer experience and for this reason I cannot recommend them.

She's responsive, helpful, knowledgeable, communicates clearly, and best of all, deploys a suitable amount of empathy.

Arthur A

CTO & Co-founder

The proxy service doesn't allow me to choose the country for the requests, so the websites that have IP-related restricted access doesn't work with the Apify service.

Rohit R

Senior Software Developer

I like User Interface because it is very easy to navigate and straight forward. Easy to integrate and gives accurate output that helps in improving productivity and scalability.

UI could perhaps be modernized (i.e. dark mode?), bit of a learning curve that could be more of an obstacle to usage for some.

Its ease of use and connectivity to almost all modern platform makes it a wonderful platform.

It's that the manual installation of docker instance and manual setups of all the needed connectors in the local desktop instance if the streamsets is used without Strigo which is a real pain.

I have been using DataOps platform since past 6 months and had a very good experience while creating pipelines, jobs, subscriptions and all other things. Moreover the platform is very user friendly.

Also connectivity between local docker instance(where data collector is set up) and applications installed outside cloud and on premise such as Kafka instance(installed on premise) is a real pain.

CI/CD with StreamSets is great. Support for multiple data platforms makes it a great choice for data integration.

Logging is complex , sometimes preview doesn't work , if you copy and use same pipeline in different server the library dependency create problems.

mohamed m

Senior Electrical and Instruments Engineer

My overall experience with the StreamSets Platform has been positive. It provides powerful tools for real-time data integration.

The tool requires a somewhat intimate knowledge with the JVM. In addition to this, it seemed a bit difficult to integrate into our CI-CD process as well.