We compared Confluent and Amazon Kinesis based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Based on user reviews, Confluent is praised for its efficient handling of vast amounts of data, seamless integration with various systems, and strong customer support. In contrast, Amazon Kinesis is commended for its real-time data processing capabilities, flexibility in integration with other AWS services, and user-friendly pricing and licensing. Confluent users highlight the need for improved UI and setup simplification, while Amazon Kinesis users suggest better documentation, UI enhancements, and scalability improvements. Ultimately, both platforms have received positive ROI feedback, with users experiencing returns on their investments.
Features: Confluent's valuable features include efficient handling of vast amounts of data, seamless integration with external systems, and comprehensive monitoring and management capabilities. Amazon Kinesis, on the other hand, offers efficient real-time processing of high data volumes, flexible data streaming and processing options, easy integration with AWS services, and availability of various tools and APIs.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Confluent's product has mixed sentiments from users, with some finding it manageable but others finding it complex. In contrast, users have positive feedback about the minimal and straightforward setup cost of Amazon Kinesis product., Confluent's product has received positive feedback for its strong return on investment. On the other hand, Amazon Kinesis offers significant ROI through cost savings, improved data processing efficiency, real-time analytics capabilities, scalability, and elasticity.
Room for Improvement: Confluent can improve its user interface and setup process, as well as provide better documentation. On the other hand, Amazon Kinesis needs enhancements in documentation, user interface, scalability, integrations, error handling, pricing, and customer support.
Deployment and customer support: User feedback on Confluent's tech solution indicates varying durations for deployment, setup, and implementation phases. In contrast, user feedback on Amazon Kinesis shows different timeframes for deployment and setup, emphasizing the need to consider them together or separately., Confluent's customer service is highly regarded for prompt and efficient support, while Amazon Kinesis is praised for outstanding assistance and representatives going above and beyond to address issues.
The summary above is based on 18 interviews we conducted recently with Confluent and Amazon Kinesis users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Kinesis is a fully managed program streaming application. You can manage any infrastructure. It is also scalable. Kinesis can handle any amount of data streaming and process data from hundreds, thousands of processes in every source with very low latency."
"Great auto-scaling, auto-sharing, and auto-correction features."
"The solution has the capacity to store the data anywhere from one day to a week and provides limitless storage for us."
"Everything is hosted and simple."
"Amazon Kinesis's main purpose is to provide near real-time data streaming at a consistent 2Mbps rate, which is really impressive."
"The feature that I've found most valuable is the replay. That is one of the most valuable in our business. We are business-to-business so replay was an important feature - being able to replay for 24 hours. That's an important feature."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Kinesis is real-time data streaming."
"Amazon Kinesis has improved our 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."
"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."
"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."
"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 most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"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."
"The monitoring module is impressive."
"It would be beneficial if Amazon Kinesis provided document based support on the internet to be able to read the data from the Kinesis site."
"The price is not much cheaper. So, there is room for improvement in the pricing."
"Kinesis can be expensive, especially when dealing with large volumes of data."
"The solution has a two-minute maximum time delay for live streaming, which could be reduced."
"AI processing or cleaning up data would be nice since I don't think it is a feature in Amazon Kinesis right now."
"I suggest integrating additional features, such as incorporating Amazon Pinpoint or Amazon Connect as bundled offerings, rather than deploying them as separate services."
"Kinesis is good for Amazon Cloud but not as suitable for other cloud vendors."
"Something else to mention is that we use Kinesis with Lambda a lot and the fact that you can only connect one Stream to one Lambda, I find is a limiting factor. I would definitely recommend to remove that constraint."
"Areas for improvement include implementing multi-storage support to differentiate between database stores based on data age and optimizing storage costs."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"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."
"Confluent's price needs improvement."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"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."
Amazon Kinesis is ranked 1st in Streaming Analytics with 24 reviews while Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 20 reviews. Amazon Kinesis is rated 8.0, while Confluent is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon Kinesis writes "Used for media streaming and live-streaming data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Confluent writes "Has good technical support services and a valuable feature for real-time data streaming ". Amazon Kinesis is most compared with Azure Stream Analytics, Amazon MSK, Apache Flink, Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Spark Streaming, whereas Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Databricks, AWS Glue, Oracle GoldenGate and Fivetran. See our Amazon Kinesis vs. Confluent report.
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