#1 most frequent
United States of America
53.9%151 installations of 280
What is Confluent?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Real-Time Data Analysis
Ability to analyze data in motion
Category average: 8.5
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources
Ability to ingest data from many sources including Internet of Things (IoT) endpoint data, stock trading data etc, as well as static data
Category average: 8.7
Data Enrichment
Ability to enrich the data stream with static reference data
Category average: 7.7
Areas for Improvement
Linear Scale-Out
Easy to scale out or scale down by visually changing the resource allocation. This allows changes in load or traffic to be handled without interruptions
Category average: 7.5
Visualization Dashboards
Easy-to-understand pictorial illustration of data with graphs charts and dashboards
Category average: 8.9
Integrated Development Tools
Tools to allow developers to rapidly create streaming applications via a graphical user interface and selection of predefined functions and operators
Category average: 7.5
Who Buys & Uses Confluent
#2 most frequent
Canada
5.7%16 installations of 280
#3 most frequent
India
5.0%14 installations of 280
Best and most robust data streaming platform!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We needed a data streaming platform to support real time data ingestion to our data lake environment. This real time data supported client facing in store and digital use cases for sub second api call classification or product promotions. As well, we looked for a partner who could replace our current technology on Azure and Confluent was able to do so at a global enterprise level.
Pros
- Streaming real time transactional data to cloud storage locations
- Data streaming transformation reducing compute expenses on lake and warehouse environments
- Transfer large size data segments
Cons
- Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
Return on Investment
- Confluent replaced Microsoft Event Hubs in our environment and unblocked data platform services rollout globally.
Alternatives Considered
TIBCO BusinessEvents, Matillion, Domo and Apache Kafka
Other Software Used
Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform), Snowflake, Azure Blob Storage
Great tool for event driven applications
Pros
- Products work great.
- Training is available.
- Customer support is good.
Cons
- Cloud service might need more granular configuration.
Return on Investment
- It enables us to develop event driven application.
- It increases our ability to handle streaming data.
- It reduces latency of communication.
Alternatives Considered
Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Google Cloud Dataflow
Other Software Used
MongoDB Atlas, Apache Kafka, StreamSets DataOps Platform, Stackdriver, Prometheus, Puppet Enterprise (formerly Puppet Data Center Automation), Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS), edX for Business, Linux Academy, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), InfluxDB, Google App Engine, Medium, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Canvas, Moodle, Zscaler Internet Access, Azure CDN, Azure Blob Storage
