We performed a comparison between Confluent and Starburst Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Databricks, Microsoft and others in Streaming Analytics."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."
"One of the best features of Confluent is that it's very easy to search and have a live status with Jira."
"The client APIs are the most valuable feature."
"The monitoring module is impressive."
"The design of the product is extremely well built and it is highly configurable."
"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."
"Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."
"The most valuable feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"We have noticed improvements in performance using Starburst Enterprise. It handles complex data, including reading and partitioning files. We can add a new catalog to Starburst Enterprise by providing connection details and service account information. This allows us to integrate with existing tools, such as the Snowflake database, which we use for data protection in our project."
"there is room for improvement in the visualization."
"It could be improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."
"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."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"It would help if the knowledge based documents in the support portal could be available for public use as well."
"Confluent's price needs improvement."
"The Schema Registry service could be improved. I would like a bigger knowledge base of other use cases and more technical forums. It would be good to have more flexible monitoring features added to the next release as well."
"Starburst Enterprise could improve by offering additional features similar to those provided by other SQL query tools. For example, incorporating functionalities like pivot tables would make it more feasible to use."
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Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 21 reviews while Starburst Enterprise is ranked 14th in Streaming Analytics with 1 review. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Starburst Enterprise is rated 8.0. 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 Starburst Enterprise writes "Handles complex data and improves performance ". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Starburst Enterprise is most compared with Dremio, Starburst Galaxy, Alteryx, Databricks and Amazon SageMaker.
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