We performed a comparison between Confluent and Matillion ETL 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."The documentation process is fast with the tool."
"A person with a good IT background and HTML will not have any trouble with Confluent."
"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."
"Kafka Connect framework is valuable for connecting to the various source systems where code doesn't need to be written."
"Their tech support is amazing; they are very good, both on and off-site."
"I find Confluent's Kafka Connectors and Kafka Streams invaluable for my use cases because they simplify real-time data processing and ETL tasks by providing reliable, pre-packaged connectors and tools."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"It's highly scalable. It takes upon itself the Redshift scalability, so it's very good."
"It is pretty user-friendly, even for people who aren't super technical."
"The product has a good user interface."
"It takes less than five minutes to set up and delivers results. It is much quicker than traditional ETL technologies."
"Matillion ETL has great Git integration that is perfect and convenient to use."
"The new version with the Productivity Cloud is very simple. It's easy to use, navigate, and understand."
"Matillion ETL is one hundred percent stable."
"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the ETL. The solution is open-source which provides advantages, such as good performance and high efficiency. Additionally, it supports three data types which eliminates predefining the data, and we can write script models in Python."
"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."
"In Confluent, there could be a few more VPN options."
"there is room for improvement in the visualization."
"Confluence could improve the server version of the solution. However, most companies are going to the cloud."
"Areas for improvement include implementing multi-storage support to differentiate between database stores based on data age and optimizing storage costs."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"Confluent's price needs improvement."
"It could be improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."
"The product must enhance its near-real-time data capture feature."
"Sometimes, we have issues with the solution's stability and need to restart it for three weeks or more."
"Going forward, I would like them to add custom jobs, since we still have to run these outside of Matillion."
"I found some of the more complex aspects of ETL challenging, but I grasped the concepts fairly quickly."
"The tool's lineage is very weak."
"There are certain functions that are available in other ETL tools which are still not present in Matillion ETL. It would be good to have more features."
"The improvement area could be possible if the tool provides better integration capabilities with other ecosystems, including governance tools or data cataloging tools, as it is currently an area where the solution is lacking."
"Ideally, I would like it to integrate with Secrets Manager as well as the AWS."
Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 19 reviews while Matillion ETL is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Integration with 24 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Matillion ETL is rated 8.6. 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 Matillion ETL writes "Efficient data integration and transformation with seamless cloud-native integration". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Matillion ETL is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and SSIS. See our Confluent vs. Matillion ETL report.
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