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."Confluence's greatest asset is its user-friendly interface, coupled with its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with a vast range of other solutions."
"Their tech support is amazing; they are very good, both on and off-site."
"The most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"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."
"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 client APIs are the most valuable feature."
"The solution can handle a high volume of data because it works and scales well."
"I like how easy it is to share your notebook with others. You can give people permission to read or edit. I think that's a great feature. You can also pull in code from GitHub pretty easily. I didn't use it that often, but I think that's a cool feature."
"Databricks integrates well with other solutions."
"The time travel feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"I like the ability to use workspaces with other colleagues because you can work together even without seeing the other team's job."
"Automation with Databricks is very easy when using the API."
"Databricks' Lakehouse architecture has been most useful for us. The data governance has been absolutely efficient in between other kinds of solutions."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"there is room for improvement in the visualization."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"Confluence could improve the server version of the solution. However, most companies are going to the cloud."
"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."
"Confluent's price needs improvement."
"The formatting aspect within the page can be improved and more powerful."
"It would help if the knowledge based documents in the support portal could be available for public use as well."
"Can be improved by including drag-and-drop features."
"The product cannot be integrated with a popular coding IDE."
"In the next release, I would like to see more optimization features."
"The solution could be improved by integrating it with data packets. Right now, the load tables provide a function, like team collaboration. Still, it's unclear as to if there's a function to create different branches and/or more branches. Our team had used data packets before, however, I feel it's difficult to integrate the current with the previous data packets."
"I would like more integration with SQL for using data in different workspaces."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"There is room for improvement in visualization."
"I would like it if Databricks made it easier to set up a project."
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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