Confluent vs. Tealium Customer Data Hub

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
Tealium Customer Data Hub
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
The Tealium Customer Data Hub powers capabilities across the data supply chain. Tealium universally collects customer data from any source including; websites, mobile applications, devices, kiosks, servers, and files. Data collected is then standardized in the data layer, which drives usage of data for customer engagement and analysis.N/A
Pricing
ConfluentTealium Customer Data Hub
Editions & Modules
Basic
$0
Standard
Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise
Starting at ~$1,150
per month
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ConfluentTealium Customer Data Hub
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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).
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
ConfluentTealium Customer Data Hub
Features
ConfluentTealium Customer Data Hub
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Confluent
9.1
Ratings
13% above category average
Tealium Customer Data Hub
-
Ratings
Real-Time Data Analysis10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Low Latency9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enrichment10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Product A and Product B
Confluent
-
Ratings
Tealium Customer Data Hub
8.2
Ratings
1% below category average
Tag library00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Tag variable mapping00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring00 Ratings4.30 Ratings
Page load times00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Mobile app tagging00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Library of JavaScript extensions00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Best Alternatives
ConfluentTealium Customer Data Hub
Small Businesses
IBM Streams (discontinued)
IBM Streams (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Tealium Customer Data Hub
Tealium Customer Data Hub
Score 8.2 out of 10
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 6.6 out of 10
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Score 8.4 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
ConfluentTealium Customer Data Hub
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ConfluentTealium Customer Data Hub
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.
Read full review
Definitely in highly regulatory verticals. Tealium Customer Data Hub has the edge compared to its competitors when it comes to working in those spaces. I would also recommend it for marketing teams who have some IT support, but not a huge tech team that is able to support them in some sort of custom integrations. But are looking to quickly stand up a tool and start seeing returns quickly.
Read full review
Pros
  • Products work great.
  • Training is available.
  • Customer support is good.
Read full review
  • Simple tag management that is tough to beat. So many solutions that are incredibly simple to setup and gather data for.
  • Security around the data is key and Tealium excels in this area.
  • The speed impact of the tag setup is key to optimizing and allowing our web properties to run more effectively, which is a better experience for the end user.
Read full review
Cons
  • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
Read full review
  • Audiences—don't they technically exist in Tealium? They are just streamed—no count, no backfill, etc.
  • Working backward to identify issues involves lots of clicking in the UI, going from audience to audience attribute, badge to event attribute, and so on.
  • You have to wait for a Real-Time event to see the payload. There is no sample or other option.
Read full review
Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
I already know that my company has no plans to discontinue use of Tealium. We are heavily reliant on it due to a huge number of product teams and developers we would have to work with to place tags across many pages. Tealium is already there on the pages, and our application/product teams are familiar with how to integrate it. It is just the simplest way to ensure that new data requirements are implemented in a timely manner.
Read full review
Usability
No answers on this topic
Tealium iQ Tag Management System does exactly what it is intended for, it manages vendortags. Changes can be made to websites and apps in minutes. The frontend is well structured, updates are easy to carry out, and Tealium support is available at all times.
Read full review
Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
It's been flawless as far as I am concerned.
Read full review
Performance
No answers on this topic
Great user interface. Easy to use. Very responsive.
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.
Read full review
No vendor has ever delivered the level of support that we regularly get from Tealium. Whenever we run into an issue, we submit a ticket and always hear back within a few hours (or sooner based on the urgency noted in the ticket). Tealium support often helps me to customize the tags or pixels we set, they help to solve problems such as "Why did data suddenly stop being collected?" and more.
Read full review
Online Training
No answers on this topic
Did what we needed to onboard us onto the platform
Read full review
Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
Implementation had some bumps in the road and it was new for all of us, but for the most part, it was easier than many other implementations we've done with other technologies.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
All of these products they have the final usage of these technologies is all of the times around using Insider. For example, you have a CDP capability, but in order to activate to their own digital channels like WhatsApp or SMS or personalization on site, and you have other technologies that do the same and Tealium what makes different, it's all about the data. They are very neutral and it's the main difference between Tealium and the other technologies.
Read full review
Scalability
No answers on this topic
Never had an issue, scales as we use it.
Read full review
Return on Investment
  • Confluent replaced Microsoft Event Hubs in our environment and unblocked data platform services rollout globally.
Read full review
  • Return on investment is always questioned at our company across our Tealium Customer Data Hub suite. How can we trace back that ROAS has improved because we integrated a new connector through Tealium Customer Data Hub. I think knowing that would be helpful.
  • Since we have a small team with limited resources, Tealium Customer Data Hub has been really helpful in adding tags/connectors with ease. This in turn, has allowed us to have more time working on things outisde of tagging.
Read full review
ScreenShots

Tealium Customer Data Hub Screenshots

Screenshot of Data Supply ChainScreenshot of Data LayerScreenshot of Connector MarketplaceScreenshot of Live Event TrackingScreenshot of AudienceStream Dashboard