IBM InfoSphere Streams Version 4.1.0

Overview of the Quick Start Edition

You can use the Quick Start Edition to experiment with the features of InfoSphere® Streams by using real data and applications. The Quick Start Edition does not have data-limit restrictions or a time limit on its license. The license is a non-warranted program license and should not be used in production. Product support is not available for the Quick Start Edition.

InfoSphere Streams enables you to capture, analyze, and act on business data from a broad range of sources. Using real-time analytic processing (RTAP) technology, InfoSphere Streams can continuously analyze massive volumes of streaming data in real time, with extremely fast response times. In addition to reporting changes in data, InfoSphere Streams can notify users and systems of data changes, and take specific actions to respond to those changes in real time.

You can use the Quick Start Edition to develop and run applications that process information in data streams. You develop your streams processing applications in the IBM® Streams Processing Language (SPL) and in other supported languages, such as Java™ and Scala. To simplify application development, InfoSphere Streams provides the InfoSphere Streams Studio integrated development environment (IDE) and toolkits that extend the functionality. The InfoSphere Streams runtime system enables you to run your applications on a single resource or a distributed set of resources.

The following optional software that is available with IBM InfoSphere Streams Version 4.1 is not available with the Quick Start Edition:

IBM InfoSphere BigInsights® Enterprise Edition