Cloudera Manager vs. Confluent

Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cloudera Manager	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Cloudera Manager is a management application for Apache Hadoop and the enterprise data hub, from Cloudera. Its automated wizards let users quickly deploy a cluster, no matter what the scale or the deployment environment, complete with intelligent, system-based default settings.	$0.04 Hourly rate
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

Pricing

Cloudera Manager

Confluent

Editions & Modules

Data Hub: $0.04/CCU
Hourly rate
Data Engineering: $0.07/CCU
Hourly rate
Data Warehouse: $0.07/CCU
Hourly rate
Operational Database: $0.08/CCU
Hourly rate
Flow Management on Data Hub: $0.15/CCU
Hourly rate
Machine Learning: $0.17/CCU
Hourly rate
DataFlow: $0.30/CCU
Hourly rate

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

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Pricing is per Cloudera Compute Unit (CCU) which is a combination of Core and Memory. CCU prices shown for each service are estimates and may vary depending on actual instance types. The prices reflected do not include infrastructure cost, networking costs, and other related costs which will vary depending on the services you choose and your cloud service provider.

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).

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Cloudera Manager	Confluent

Features

Cloudera Manager

Confluent

Streaming Analytics

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

Best Alternatives
	Cloudera Manager	Confluent
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Enterprises	IBM Analytics Engine Score 7.1 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 6.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cloudera Manager	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cloudera Manager	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	Cloudera Manager is well suited for environments and deployments where the administrator user base is not well versed in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem or the Linux command line interface. Incentivized Charles Inglese Senior System Engineer Read full review	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
Pros	Cloudera Manager has an easy to use web GUI. You can start and stop cluster and services. It will start and stop services in a cluster in the right order. You can monitor the cluster, services, and physical host hardware as well. Cloudera Manager has an easy to use API that allows us to create scripts to automate deployment process. Cloudera Manager has an option to add additional services that you could manage via the web GUI. Incentivized Ethan Tran Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Support for third-party Python APIs within Cloudera Manager extension framework Providing more reporting/logging functionality as part of the open source distribution Support for the latest RHEL versions sooner in the release lifecycle Incentivized Charles Inglese Senior System Engineer Read full review	Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It meets all my customer's needs. Incentivized Ethan Tran Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	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
Alternatives Considered	I have not used any competitors, such as Hortonworks, because Cloudera Manager just works and meets all my customer's needs. I only have deployed Hadoop using command line, which is not easy to use and manage. Incentivized Ethan Tran Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	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
Return on Investment	Cloudera Manager has allowed our organization to deploy Apache Hadoop to operations quicker and with less training versus using the command line exclusively. Increased employee efficiency. Increased product adoption. Incentivized Charles Inglese Senior System Engineer Read full review	Confluent replaced Microsoft Event Hubs in our environment and unblocked data platform services rollout globally. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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