We performed a comparison between Confluent and Mule Anypoint Platform 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."Their tech support is amazing; they are very good, both on and off-site."
"Kafka Connect framework is valuable for connecting to the various source systems where code doesn't need to be written."
"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 most valuable feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"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."
"Confluence's greatest asset is its user-friendly interface, coupled with its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with a vast range of other solutions."
"The solution's deployment and proxy processes are very good."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is their integrations and very good API management."
"This is the easiest and best tool available."
"The most valuable features of the Mule Anypoint Platform are the Flex Gateway, API management, easy-to-use, and connectors. Additionally, they are coming out with improvements to the solution when required."
"When we talk about the APIs, there are multiple policies one can apply on APIs, like rate limiting policies, OWASP policies, and OWASP security policies, that can be easily configured in Mule Anypoint Platform."
"The tool is very capable and offers a high performance. The tool supports batch processing and ETL processing."
"The community manager is the standout feature of the Mule Anypoint Platform, as it provides a platform to showcase your API to external parties. It is exceptionally user-friendly and enables external parties to easily utilize and consume the APIs."
"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 improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"There is no local support team in Saudi Arabia."
"In Confluent, there could be a few more VPN options."
"It requires some application specific connectors which are lacking. This needs to be added."
"there is room for improvement in the visualization."
"Mule Anypoint Platform could improve by having more up-to-date adapters to do work in a digital space."
"An on-premise setup requires special skills and you need a lot of professional services."
"The platform's data integration tools need improvement on the processing side."
"Lacks intelligent management data and intelligent mappings."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The runtime management and connectors could use some work and are vulnerable to breakage after upgrades."
"In order to set up a storefront, we currently rely on a third-party solution. It would greatly enhance our operations if this feature was integrated into their existing solution."
"Adding connectors for new upcoming applications would add extra value to this product."
Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 21 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 41 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Mule Anypoint Platform 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 Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Qlik Replicate, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, SAP Process Orchestration, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Palantir Foundry. See our Confluent vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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