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Airbyte vs. Confluent

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Airbyte
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that syncs data from applications, APIs & databases to data warehouses, lakes and other destinations, from the company of the same name in San Francisco. Pricing of the commercial version is based solely on compute time.
$2.50
per credit
Confluent
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Confluent Cloud is a cloud-native service for Apache Kafka used to connect and process data in real time with a fully managed data streaming platform. Confluent Platform is the self-managed version.
$385
per month
Pricing
AirbyteConfluent
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Basic
$0
Standard
Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise
Starting at ~$1,150
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AirbyteConfluent
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Community Pulse
AirbyteConfluent
Features
AirbyteConfluent
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Airbyte
10.0
1 Ratings
19% above category average
Confluent
-
Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Airbyte
7.0
1 Ratings
11% below category average
Confluent
-
Ratings
Metadata management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing and debugging7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Airbyte
-
Ratings
Confluent
9.1
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Low Latency00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Data Enrichment00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
AirbyteConfluent
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AirbyteConfluent
Likelihood to Recommend
Airbyte
I think Airbyte is well suited for any company that needs one tool that can move data from one or many sources into a consolidated warehousing solution. Even if it's just one source to target connection, Airbyte simplifies the ability to perform extract and load actions without having to get knee deep in python scripting.
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Confluent
If you have a need to stream data, real time or segmented structured data then Confluent is a great platform to do so with. You won't run into packet transfer size limitations that other platforms have. Flexibility in on-prem, cloud, and managed cloud offerings makes it very flexible no matter how you choose to implement.
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Pros
Airbyte
  • Moves data
  • open source
  • connection development
  • Has an expansive catalog of integrated connectors out of the box
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Confluent
  • Products work great.
  • Training is available.
  • Customer support is good.
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Cons
Airbyte
  • Logging can be a bit tricky
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Confluent
  • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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Support Rating
Airbyte
No answers on this topic
Confluent
The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform.
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Alternatives Considered
Airbyte
I was not at my company when we evaluated Airbyte
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Confluent
For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations.
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Return on Investment
Airbyte
  • Airbyte has allowed us to get away from complex python scripts and allowed us to consolidate to one tool.
  • It's allowed us to cut costs and have better observability on data being moved into our environment
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Confluent
  • It enables us to develop event driven application.
  • It increases our ability to handle streaming data.
  • It reduces latency of communication.
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