We performed a comparison between Confluent and Dell Streaming Data Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Confluent and others in Streaming Analytics."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 of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"Kafka Connect framework is valuable for connecting to the various source systems where code doesn't need to be written."
"Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."
"A person with a good IT background and HTML will not have any trouble with Confluent."
"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 performance and price is good."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"It could have more integration with different platforms."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"The formatting aspect within the page can be improved and more powerful."
"Confluence could improve the server version of the solution. However, most companies are going to the cloud."
"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."
"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."
"It would help if the knowledge based documents in the support portal could be available for public use as well."
"Improvement can be made by implementing a clear sales point that guides users in making choices, especially for virtualization purposes."
Confluent is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 19 reviews while Dell Streaming Data Platform is ranked 16th in Streaming Analytics with 1 review. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Dell Streaming Data Platform 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 Dell Streaming Data Platform writes "The solution’s clear-cut pricing makes scalability a cinch". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Dell Streaming Data Platform is most compared with Starburst Galaxy.
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