We performed a comparison between Confluent and Elastic Search 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."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."
"A person with a good IT background and HTML will not have any trouble with Confluent."
"Kafka Connect framework is valuable for connecting to the various source systems where code doesn't need to be written."
"The solution can handle a high volume of data because it works and scales well."
"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 documentation process is fast with the tool."
"The design of the product is extremely well built and it is highly configurable."
"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."
"The AI-based attribute tagging is a valuable feature."
"The forced merge and forced resonate features reduce the data size increasing reliability."
"The initial setup is very easy for small environments."
"I value the feature that allows me to share the dashboards to different people with different levels of access."
"It is stable."
"Search is really powerful."
"The most valuable feature for us is the analytics that we can configure and view using Kibana."
"ELK Elasticsearch is 100% scalable as scalability is built into the design"
"It could be more user-friendly and centralized. A way to reduce redundancy would be helpful."
"It could have more integration with different platforms."
"It would help if the knowledge based documents in the support portal could be available for public use as well."
"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 requires some application specific connectors which are lacking. This needs to be added."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"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."
"We have an issue with the volume of data that we can handle."
"This product could be improved with additional security, and the addition of support for machine learning devices."
"Elasticsearch could improve by honoring Unix environmental variables and not relying only on those provided by Java (e.g. installing plugins over the Unix http proxy)."
"They could improve some of the platform's infrastructure management capabilities."
"I would like to see more integration for the solution with different platforms."
"The GUI is the part of the program which has the most room for improvement."
"Could have more open source tools and testing."
"While integrating with tools like agents for ingesting data from sources like firewalls is valuable, I believe prioritizing improvements to the core product would be more beneficial."
Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 21 reviews while Elastic Search is ranked 10th in Cloud Data Integration with 59 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Elastic Search 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 Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Pinecone, Azure Search and Amazon Kendra. See our Confluent vs. Elastic Search report.
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