Confluent vs. jKool

jKool

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
jKool	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	jKool is a streaming analytics platform from the company of the same name in Melville, that analyzes fast data such as logs, metrics, transactions in real-time so users can focus on finding insight and opportunities in their data.	N/A

Pricing

Confluent

jKool

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	jKool
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	jKool

Features

Confluent

jKool

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Confluent 9.1 Ratings 13% above category average	jKool 7.0 Ratings 14% below category average
Real-Time Data Analysis	10.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards	8.00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources	10.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Low Latency	9.00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools	8.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out	9.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Data Enrichment	10.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Machine Learning Automation	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Confluent	jKool
Small Businesses	IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10	IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10
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	jKool
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Confluent	jKool
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	JKool is a decent tool for retrieving information regarding user engagement and customer feedback for your software products. With these information it's very valuable stepping stone for us to make future updates or produce new products. However, there are some downsides with jKool, two of which are there are too much clutter in the GUI and it takes sometimes to turn how things work. Incentivized Duc Minh Nguyen President Read full review
Pros	Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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	No other product that I used is similar to jKool, it's unique product that have good amount of features that I would be opened to invest more in the future if time permit. It still has a long way to go and the first thing it can do is clean up it user interface to make it better. Incentivized Duc Minh Nguyen President 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	No answers on this topic
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