We performed a comparison between Azure Stream Analytics and Confluent 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."We find the query editor feature of this solution extremely valuable for our business."
"The life cycle, report management and crash management features are great."
"The way it organizes data into tables and dashboards is very helpful."
"It's a product that can scale."
"I appreciate this solution because it leverages open-source technologies. It allows us to utilize the latest streaming solutions and it's easy to develop."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to create a query using SQ."
"It's scalable as a cloud product."
"The monitoring module is impressive."
"The benefit is escaping email communication. Sometimes people ignore emails or put them into spam, but with Confluence, everyone sees the same text at the same time."
"The design of the product is extremely well built and it is highly configurable."
"Confluence's greatest asset is its user-friendly interface, coupled with its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with a vast range of other solutions."
"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 solution can handle a high volume of data because it works and scales well."
"Their tech support is amazing; they are very good, both on and off-site."
"We mostly use the solution's message queues and event-driven architecture."
"The solution's interface could be simpler to understand for non-technical people."
"Azure Stream Analytics could improve by having clearer metrics as to the scale, more metrics around the data set size that is flowing through it, and performance tuning recommendations."
"One area that could use improvement is the handling of data validation. Currently, there is a review process, but sometimes the validation fails even before the job is executed. This results in wasted time as we have to rerun the job to identify the failure."
"Early in the process, we had some issues with stability."
"Easier scalability and more detailed job monitoring features would be helpful."
"The UI should be a little bit better from a usability perspective."
"The collection and analysis of historical data could be better."
"There may be some issues when connecting with Microsoft Power BI because we are providing the input and output commands, and there's a chance of it being delayed while connecting."
"There is no local support team in Saudi Arabia."
"The product should integrate tools for incorporating diagrams like Lucidchart. It also needs to improve its formatting features. We also faced issues while granting permissions."
"Confluent's price needs improvement."
"It could have more integration with different platforms."
"Confluence could improve the server version of the solution. However, most companies are going to the cloud."
"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."
"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."
"It could be more user-friendly and centralized. A way to reduce redundancy would be helpful."
Azure Stream Analytics is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 22 reviews while Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 20 reviews. Azure Stream Analytics is rated 8.2, while Confluent is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Stream Analytics writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly, but could be priced better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Confluent writes "Has good technical support services and a valuable feature for real-time data streaming ". Azure Stream Analytics is most compared with Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, Amazon MSK, Apache Flink and Google Cloud Dataflow, whereas Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our Azure Stream Analytics vs. Confluent report.
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