We performed a comparison between Confluent and Mule Anypoint Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Their tech support is amazing; they are very good, both on and off-site."
"A person with a good IT background and HTML will not have any trouble with Confluent."
"With Confluent Cloud we no longer need to handle the infrastructure and the plumbing, which is a concern for Confluent. The other advantage is that all portfolios have access to the data that is being shared."
"Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."
"The most valuable feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"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."
"We mostly use the solution's message queues and event-driven architecture."
"The most valuable feature is the variety of characters Anypoint Platform has. It is very scalable and customizable."
"The tool is very capable and offers a high performance. The tool supports batch processing and ETL processing."
"The most valuable feature is their integrations and very good API management."
"It is a stable product...The initial setup was simple."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is a huge list of available connectors for a lot of different platforms, which we can use very easily."
"It has improved our organization a lot because of the increase in productivity, and it has simplified the development of products. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a highly effective tool where you can build integrations so effectively. If you establish the integration platform, it increases productivity. It helps us to do effective re-authentication, and it speeds the integration."
"The monitoring capabilities of this product are very good because of the feedback it supplies in statistics."
"We are very satisfied with the DevOps support."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"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."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"It requires some application specific connectors which are lacking. This needs to be added."
"The formatting aspect within the page can be improved and more powerful."
"There is a limitation when it comes to seamlessly importing Microsoft documents into Confluent pages, which can be inconvenient for users who frequently work with Microsoft Office tools and need to transition their content to Confluent."
"It could be improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."
"It could be more user-friendly and centralized. A way to reduce redundancy would be helpful."
"The solution's pricing model is very strange, and it will be really expensive if you use APIs a lot."
"Mule Anypoint Platform could improve by having more up-to-date adapters to do work in a digital space."
"It would be better if we had a clearer view of the solution's future releases."
"The solution is very expensive. They need to work on the pricing."
"Price-wise, it is a good product since it is reasonably priced...Mule Anypoint Platform can get too complex for non-technical people."
"An on-premise setup requires special skills and you need a lot of professional services."
"Mule Anypoint Platform could improve by having better integration with MDM. There are challenges when doing the interaction at this time."
"The stability could be better."
Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 21 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 41 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Mule Anypoint Platform 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 Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Qlik Replicate, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, SAP Process Orchestration, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Palantir Foundry. See our Confluent vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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