We performed a comparison between Confluent and Qlik Replicate 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."The most valuable feature that we are using is the data replication between the data centers allowing us to configure a disaster recovery or software. However, is it's not mandatory to use and because most of the features that we use are from Apache Kafka, such as end-to-end encryption. Internally, we can develop our own kind of product or service from Apache Kafka."
"Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."
"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."
"It is also good for knowledge base management."
"The most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"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."
"The monitoring module is impressive."
"Kafka Connect framework is valuable for connecting to the various source systems where code doesn't need to be written."
"A valuable feature of Qlik Replicate is that you do not need ETL. It's easy to use—you choose two systems and it automatically replicates them. Even if there is no CDC available, if you insert it and update it, and there is nothing to find out, then you can use Qlik Replicate. It's a good product."
"The CDC and the flexibility to use QVD as a source are the most valuable features of Qlik Replicate."
"From a technical perspective, this is an excellent product."
"A pretty good series of connectors is one of the best features of Qlik Replicate."
"The main valuable feature is its real-time change data capture (CDC) capabilities, which process data with minimal latency. There is not much delay. It also performs well with batch-wise data applications."
"It enables us to transform data at the latest stage rather than in ETL loads, so it's more ELT which is one of the advantages. It is also in near real-time, which brings significant advantage for our embedded analytics approach."
"We use Qlik Replicate to change data capture of databases in production environments."
"Great with replicating and updating records."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"there is room for improvement in the visualization."
"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."
"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 would help if the knowledge based documents in the support portal could be available for public use as well."
"There is no local support team in Saudi Arabia."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"Support-wise, this solution is in need of improvement."
"The UI and data version control can be improved."
"It's not possible to replicate the QVC files in data analytics."
"We'd like better connectivity."
"We would like to see more details in messages about errors with the system."
"In various scenarios, an important consideration is when we encounter issues and Qlik Replicate suggests reloading a specific table. If we face any problems or encounter errors with that table, it becomes necessary to make a change in Qlik Replicate. Performing a full reload every time is not feasible or practical. Instead, we should identify the specific issues and address them without repeating the entire reloading process. Based on this approach, we can investigate and resolve the problem by performing targeted loads from the source itself. This change aligns with my perspective and is something I would like to implement."
"Some features can also be overly dependent on each other. So, there is room for improvement."
"When you remote into it the Qlik Replicate UI a lot of times it just freezes. We set up the EC2, to allow them to go to the server and click on the Replicate icon, it just opens up and just sits there. At that point, we have to go into the EC2 and then reboot the server. This should be fixed, it is frustrating."
Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 19 reviews while Qlik Replicate is ranked 16th in Data Integration with 13 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Qlik Replicate 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 Qlik Replicate writes " Performs well with batch-wise data applications but some features can also be overly dependent on each other". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and IBM Streams, whereas Qlik Replicate is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Compose, Azure Data Factory and AWS Glue. See our Confluent vs. Qlik Replicate report.
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