Confluent vs. Panoply

Panoply

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Confluent	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Confluent 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.	$0
Panoply	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Panoply, from Sqream since the late 2021 acquisition, is an ETL-less, smart end-to-end data management system built for the cloud. Panoply specializes as a unified ELT and Data Warehouse platform with integrated visualization capabilities and storage optimization algorithms.	N/A

Pricing

Confluent

Panoply

Editions & Modules

Basic: $0
Standard: Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise: Starting at ~$1,150
per month

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Confluent	Panoply
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Confluent 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).

Panoply offers simple, transparent pricing. All plans have a 21-day free trial—no credit card required. You'll get an account executive and data architect to help you get the most out of your smart data warehouse. Pricing starts at $325/month.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Confluent	Panoply
Considered Both Products	Confluent Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluent For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluent We chose to use the Confluent Platform because they provide enterprise-grade customer service support. Whenever we have trouble setting up or using the service, we can create a ticket for them and it will be resolved pretty fast. Kafka is the open-source software that comes … Incentivized Helpful?	Panoply Verified User Anonymous Chose Panoply Panoply has much more storage and better organization tools for searching. There are better folders and tools for keeping documents secure and stored for a long period of time. It is better to offload data in mass than singular or Zip drive documents like you would do in Google … Incentivized Helpful? JC John Cromwell Data Entry Chose Panoply It’s a good choice for building quick, multipurpose data stack for a variety of businesses needs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Panoply Panoply's time to value is much more rapid than Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Confluent

Panoply

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Confluent 9.1 Ratings 13% above category average	Panoply - Ratings
Real-Time Data Analysis	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Low Latency	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data Enrichment	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Confluent	Panoply
Small Businesses	IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10	Skyvia Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Tealium Customer Data Hub Score 8.2 out of 10	Astera Data Pipeline Builder (Centerprise) Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Spotfire Streaming Score 6.6 out of 10	Control-M Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Confluent	Panoply
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Confluent	Panoply
Likelihood to Recommend	If your company needs to build event-driven applications, like in healthcare industry, you need to enhance interoperability, and you are seeking a reliable service with enterprise-grade support, Confluent is the best on the market you can get. Their product works great and they provide very good customer service. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Panoply is great for smaller organizations where analytics is critical, but it is unrealistic to hire a data engineer or build a data infrastructure. Panoply comes as a full data stack out of the box. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Redshift setup -- so much easier with Panoply, rather than messing around with AWS mishegoss Automated data ingestion and formatting -- I love not having to write out SQL table schema Easy scaling and data warehouse maintenance -- I don't like to have to mess with this in previous redshift implementations Peter Weinberg Analyst Read full review
Cons	Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Needs more user control Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	It’s a good choice for building a quick, multipurpose data stack for a variety of businesses needs. JC John Cromwell Data Entry Read full review
Support Rating	The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Panoply has much more storage and better organization tools for searching. There are better folders and tools for keeping documents secure and stored for a long period of time. It is better to offload data in mass than singular or Zip drive documents like you would do in Google Drive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Confluent replaced Microsoft Event Hubs in our environment and unblocked data platform services rollout globally. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The user interface could use some improvement for analytical tools. Apart from that, it’s great. JC John Cromwell Data Entry Read full review
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