Apache Kafka Pricing
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reviewer2075460
Group Manager at a media company with 201-500 employees
I have experience in private cluster implementation. When you use Apache Kafka with Cloudera, the pricing is included in your Cloudera license. The pricing is based on the number of nodes, the storage cost, and other components. As part of this license, Kafka is one of the solutions offered. When you compare it with OnCloud, if you don't have a good volume of data and use cases, your benefits realization will not be there, as the initial cost of setting up the cluster and bringing up the license can be as much as $760k for a small cluster of ten to twenty nodes. You need at least 20-30 GBs of data and use cases before utilizing and profiting from the Teradata license and cloud data. Kafka is just one piece of it.
When it comes to the cloud, the pricing also goes at the solution level so that you can compare it at the Kafka level. Still, I don't have much information on that from where I am currently implementing the solution. After we did the cost-benefit analysis, we only opted for the solution. We realized that by bringing in Cloudera along with Kafka, we would be able to replace two or three existing systems, including Teradata, Oracle, Informatica, and IBM Datastage. Only then were we able to realize the benefit for the bank. Otherwise, Cloudera would be much more expensive, especially in the short term. With distributed computing, the concept of Delta Lake is coming in, and IDBMS systems like Teradata and distributed systems like data lakes will coexist. Not all use cases will be solved, but cloud solutions like Azure come as a package, and you need not worry about having different physical systems in your enterprise to take care of. That's where I think the cost-benefit analysis from a data perspective becomes too important.
At the end of the day, we bring in big data systems only when the data volumes are high. When the data volumes are low, the cost-benefit analysis can easily show that systems like Oracle or Teradata can run it just fine.
View full review »I rate Apache Kafka's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. There are no additional costs apart from the licensing fees for Apache Kafka.
Apache Kafka has open-source pricing.
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Kafka is free.
View full review »The cost can vary depending on the provider and the specific flavor or version you use. I'm not very knowledgeable about the pricing details.
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We are using the free version of Apache Kafka.
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reviewer1142973
CEO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
The price for the enterprise version is quite high.
For on-premise, there is an annual fee, which starts at 60,000 euros, but it is usually higher than 100,000 euros. The cost for a project including the subscription is usually between 100,000 to 200,000 euros. The cost also depends on the level of support. There are two different levels of support.
View full review »Apache Kafka is an open-source solution.
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George Thomas
Lead Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It will be included in the Oracle-specific platform. It is approximately $600,000 USD.
View full review »I rate the pricing for this solution an eight out of ten. It could be a bit cheaper.
View full review »Kafka is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs. There are third-party companies who support and provide add-ons to Kafka, but we didn't need to use any of those. Confluence, for example, provides plug-ins for Kafka.
View full review »The price of Apache Kafka is good.
I rate the price of Apache Kafka an eight out of ten.
View full review »I would advise others to schedule a month or two to just set it up and have it up and running.
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Andre Visser
Technical Director at Metrofibre Networx
It's a premium product, so it is not price-effective for us.
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Nitin Kamble
Director at Tibco
The solution is open source.
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SunilKalva
Barista Brewing Espresso at Linkedln
We are currently using the open-source version.
View full review »It's a bit cheaper compared to other Q applications.
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Mario Estrada
CTO at Estrada & Consultores
Apache Kafka is OpenSource, you can set it up in your own Kubernetes cluster or subscribe to Kafka providers online as a service.
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Dimitrios Zigkos
Enterprise Architect at Smals vzw
Apache Kafka is an open-source solution.
View full review »Apache Kafka is an open-sourced solution. There are fees if you want the support, and I would recommend it for enterprises. There are annual subscriptions available.
View full review »The price of the solution is low.
I rate the price of Apache Kafka a nine out of ten.
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Ravi-Patel
Assistant Professor at CHAROTAR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The solution is free, it is open-source.
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reviewer2000091
Software Support & Development Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
This is an open-source solution and is free to use.
View full review »This is an open-source version.
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DustyPressley
Sr Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apache Kafka is free. My clients were using Confluent which provides high-quality support and services, and it was relatively expensive for our client. There was a lot of back and forth on negotiating the price.
Confluent has an offering that has Cloud-Based pricing. There are different packages, prices, and capabilities. The highest level being the most expensive. AWS provides services to their market, for example, to have Kafka running. I do not know what the pricing is and I am fairly confident, Azure and GCP provide similar services.
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Lakshmanan Panneerselvam
Owner at Binarylogicworks.com.au
Kafka is open-source and it is cheaper than any other product.
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reviewer1398480
Building Event-centric Data processing Architectures at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The price depends on who we are getting the product from. If we buy it from Confluent, we always have to try to negotiate the price. The price is always negotiable.
View full review »When starting to look at a distributed message system, look for a cloud solution first. It is an easier entry point than an on-premises hardware solution. A lot of the complexity has already been taken care of. Both AWS and Azure have supported Kafka clusters that can be provisioned very easily.
View full review »Kafka is open source.
View full review »We are licensed annually for this solution.
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MoulaliNaguri
Project Engineer at Wipro Limited
It's an open-source product, so the pricing isn't an issue. It's free to use. We don't have costs associated with it.
View full review »I don’t have any idea, as we use the open source version.
View full review »Licensing and pricing was handled by my management, so I don’t have much knowledge there.
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reviewer1128858
Vice President at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
It's free. We use the free version.
View full review »It is open source software.
View full review »With paid support from Confluent, you get the additional benefit of Kafka Connect.
View full review »This is an open-source product.
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Narendra Chauhan
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The licensing for this solution is pay-as-you-use.
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reviewer1247268
Technology Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Apache Kafka is open-source and can be used free of charge.
View full review »There is no pricing and licensing.
View full review »I would not subscribe to the Confluent platform, but rather stay on the free open source version. The extra cost wasn't justified.
View full review »Our clients purchased the license and they think it's an affordable solution.
View full review »The solution is worth the money.
View full review »We use a community version.
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OnurTokat
Senior Big Data Developer | Cloudera at Dilisim
I'm unaware of the costs surrounding licensing and setup.
View full review »This is open source with the cost of a cluster administrator.
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FounderC32bc
Founder, CEO at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Licensing issues are not applicable. Apache licensing makes it simple with almost zero cost for the software itself.
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reviewer1304505
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is open source; it's free to use.
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reviewer1289778
freelance at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Apache Kafka is an open-source solution and there are no fees, but there are fees associated with confluence, which are based on subscription.
View full review »Kafka is more reasonably priced than IBM MQ.
View full review »Since it's an open source product, there is no pricing for it.
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