We performed a comparison between Confluent and Databricks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Streaming Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Kafka Connect framework is valuable for connecting to the various source systems where code doesn't need to be written."
"I find Confluent's Kafka Connectors and Kafka Streams invaluable for my use cases because they simplify real-time data processing and ETL tasks by providing reliable, pre-packaged connectors and tools."
"We mostly use the solution's message queues and event-driven architecture."
"The most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"I would rate the scalability of the solution at eight out of ten. We have 20 people who use Confluent in our organization now, and we hope to increase usage in the future."
"The most valuable feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"Confluence's greatest asset is its user-friendly interface, coupled with its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with a vast range of other solutions."
"It is also good for knowledge base management."
"The solution is easy to use and has a quick start-up time due to being on the cloud."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Databricks is the integration with Microsoft Azure."
"Databricks is hosted on the cloud. It is very easy to collaborate with other team members who are working on it. It is production-ready code, and scheduling the jobs is easy."
"The ease of use and its accessibility are valuable."
"There are good features for turning off clusters."
"A very valuable feature is the data processing, and the solution is specifically good at using the Spark ecosystem."
"The solution offers a free community version."
"It could be more user-friendly and centralized. A way to reduce redundancy would be helpful."
"It could have more themes. They should also have more reporting-oriented plugins as well. It would be great to have free custom reports that can be dispatched directly from Jira."
"Confluence could improve the server version of the solution. However, most companies are going to the cloud."
"There is no local support team in Saudi Arabia."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"It would help if the knowledge based documents in the support portal could be available for public use as well."
"Currently, in the early stages, I see a gap on the security side. If you are using the SaaS version, we would like to get a fuller, more secure solution that can be adopted right out of the box. Confluence could do a better job sharing best practices or a reusable pattern that others have used, especially for companies that can not afford to hire professional services from Confluent."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"It would be better if it were faster. It can be slow, and it can be super fast for big data. But for small data, sometimes there is a sub-second response, which can be considered slow. In the next release, I would like to have automatic creation of APIs because they don't have it at the moment, and I spend a lot of time building them."
"The tool should improve its integration with other products."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"There would also be benefits if more options were available for workers, or the clusters of the two points."
"We'd like a more visual dashboard for analysis It needs better UI."
"Doesn't provide a lot of credits or trial options."
"The stability of the clusters or the instances of Databricks would be better if it was a much more stable environment. We've had issues with crashes."
"There should be better integration with other platforms."
Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 21 reviews while Databricks is ranked 2nd in Streaming Analytics with 78 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Databricks is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Confluent writes "Has good technical support services and a valuable feature for real-time data streaming ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, Oracle GoldenGate and Fivetran, whereas Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku and Dremio. See our Confluent vs. Databricks report.
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