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Confluent vs. IBM Streams (discontinued)

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Confluent

24 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Streams (discontinued)

62 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Confluent

    Score9.9 out of 10
    		N/AConfluent Cloud is a cloud-native service for Apache Kafka used to connect and process data in real time with a fully managed data streaming platform. Confluent Platform is the self-managed version.

    $385

    per month

    IBM Streams (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    		N/AA real-time analytics solution that turns fast-moving volumes and varieties into insights. Streams evaluates a broad range of streaming data — unstructured text, video, audio, geospatial and sensor. The product was sunsetted in 2024.N/A
    Pricing
    ConfluentIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ConfluentIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).—
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    Features
    ConfluentIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Confluent and IBM Streams (discontinued)
    Feature
    Confluent
    9.1
    2 Ratings
    IBM Streams (discontinued)
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    Real-Time Data Analysis10.02 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards8.02 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources10.02 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Low Latency9.02 Ratings7.93 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools8.02 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out9.02 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Data Enrichment10.01 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    User Ratings
    ConfluentIBM Streams (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)