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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Confluent

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AConfluent 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.

    $385

    per month

    Google Cloud Dataflow

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGoogle offers Cloud Dataflow, a managed streaming analytics platform for real-time data insights, fraud detection, and other purposes.N/A
    Pricing
    ConfluentGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ConfluentGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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).—
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    Features
    ConfluentGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Confluent and Google Cloud Dataflow
    Feature
    Confluent
    9.1
    2 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Google Cloud Dataflow
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Real-Time Data Analysis10.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources10.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Low Latency9.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out9.02 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Data Enrichment10.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    ConfluentGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Small Businesses
    Amazon Kinesis
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Amazon Kinesis
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Confluent
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score6.6 out of 10
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score6.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ConfluentGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ConfluentGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Confluent
    If you have a need to stream data, real time or segmented structured data then Confluent is a great platform to do so with. You won't run into packet transfer size limitations that other platforms have. Flexibility in on-prem, cloud, and managed cloud offerings makes it very flexible no matter how you choose to implement.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    Based on my experience, streaming / real time / machine learning / AI type of processing and batch processing which needs less transformation are very well suited. Work load that needs complex transformation / multiple hops gets very complicated to implement. New feature like Dataflow SQL option will come in handy for sql heavy users.
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    Pros
    Confluent
    • Products work great.
    • Training is available.
    • Customer support is good.
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    Google
    • Streaming, Real time work load
    • Batch processing
    • Auto scaling
    • flexible pricing
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    Cons
    Confluent
    • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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    Google
    • inbuild template options can be expanded
    • more data connector options
    • easy of use
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    Support Rating
    Confluent
    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.
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    Google
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    Alternatives Considered
    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 scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations.
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    Google
    Google Cloud Dataproc Cloud Datafusion
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    Return on Investment
    Confluent
    • It enables us to develop event driven application.
    • It increases our ability to handle streaming data.
    • It reduces latency of communication.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    • cost saving from managing our own data center for ETL servers
    • consumption based pricing
    • with auto scaling feature, we were able to expand components to support work load
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