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."The design of the product is extremely well built and it is highly configurable."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"We mostly use the solution's message queues and event-driven architecture."
"The most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."
"One of the best features of Confluent is that it's very easy to search and have a live status with Jira."
"The exchange and API management features are the best in the market."
"Customers can make use of Runtime Fabric, an RTF environment."
"The flexibility has been great overall."
"The most valuable feature of Mule Anypoint Platform is rapid development."
"It can scale."
"I have found several things most valuable, including its very quick implementation that you can use a lot of out of the box templates, and lastly that it is a very mature product, especially in hybrid integration."
"The solution's deployment and proxy processes are very good."
"The tool is very capable and offers a high performance. The tool supports batch processing and ETL processing."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"Confluent's price needs improvement."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"There is a limitation when it comes to seamlessly importing Microsoft documents into Confluent pages, which can be inconvenient for users who frequently work with Microsoft Office tools and need to transition their content to Confluent."
"It could be improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."
"In Confluent, there could be a few more VPN options."
"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."
"Areas for improvement include implementing multi-storage support to differentiate between database stores based on data age and optimizing storage costs."
"Pricing is one aspect of the solution that is troublesome. It's too expensive for smaller organizations."
"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."
"The solution's licensing methodologies could be improved."
"The pricing can be a little bit less."
"Mule should have better B2B integration."
"I would like to see some data integration and automation."
"The compatibility with vendors can be improved. Microsoft Azure heavily uses single software."
Confluent is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 19 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 40 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, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and SAP Process Orchestration. See our Confluent vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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