Confluent vs. Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued)

Confluent

Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued)

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
Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued)	Score 4.0 out of 10	N/A	Base on the former Aleri product, Sybase Event Stream Processor, from SAP, is currently discontinued and no longer supported, or available for sale.	N/A

Pricing

Confluent

Sybase Event Stream Processor (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
Confluent	Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued)
Free Trial
No	No
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).

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Community Pulse
	Confluent	Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued)
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?	Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued) Verified User Anonymous Chose Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued) IBM WebSphere business elements which was more complex to set up and also more expensive especially in a large SAP environment, We were also looking to get ramped up with the product with minimal learning curve especially with good documentation available to get started with … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Confluent

Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued)

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Confluent 9.1 Ratings 13% above category average	Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued) - 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	Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued)
Small Businesses	IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Tealium Customer Data Hub Score 8.2 out of 10	Confluent Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises	Spotfire Streaming Score 6.6 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 6.6 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Confluent	Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Confluent	Sybase Event Stream Processor (discontinued)
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	These complex event processing platforms have the ability to process to multiple streams of data with low latency and ability to scale up well. It provides the ability to analyze streaming data real time and establish/investigate patterns with this streaming data and also deals with high-speed data very well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Ability to capture data and investigate data for pattern fairly quickly Integrates well with Sybase database Ability to do data modeling Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Configuring data streams could be made more intuitive to users Sometimes debugger tools are very slow Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	IBM WebSphere business elements which was more complex to set up and also more expensive especially in a large SAP environment, We were also looking to get ramped up with the product with minimal learning curve especially with good documentation available to get started with the product as well as the ability to deploy and maintain with relative ease on an ongoing basis. 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	A positive impact on real-time analysis and patterns from streaming data Good speed Good documentation for setup No negative impact Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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