Designing a solution on IBM Cloud that requires real-time data processing and analytics, which service provides a scalable and serverless platform for streaming data?

Question

Options

• AIBM Cloud Event Streams
• BIBM Cloud Functions
• CIBM Watson Studio
• DIBM Cloudant

• A
  75% (15)
• B
  15% (3)
• C
  5% (1)
• D
  5% (1)

Explanation

IBM Cloud Event Streams is purpose-built for streaming data pipelines, offering a fully managed, scalable Apache Kafka service that ingests and processes high-throughput real-time event data - exactly what the question describes. IBM Cloud Functions (B) is a serverless compute platform for event-driven code execution, not a streaming data service. IBM Watson Studio (C) is a data science and ML model-building environment focused on batch analytics and model training, not real-time streaming. IBM Cloudant (D) is a NoSQL document database optimized for storage and querying, not streaming ingestion or real-time analytics pipelines.

Memory tip: Think "Event Streams = streams of events in real time" - the name literally describes its purpose. If the question mentions streaming, real-time, or Kafka, Event Streams is your answer.

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