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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Aiven

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAiven provides managed open source data technologies on all major clouds, providing managed cloud infrastructure so that developers can focus purely on creating applications. Meanwhile, Aiven will manage the user's cloud data infrastructure.N/A

    IBM Confluent

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.

    $385

    per month

    Pricing
    AivenIBM Confluent
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AivenIBM Confluent
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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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    Features
    AivenIBM Confluent
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Aiven and IBM Confluent
    Feature
    Aiven
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    19% below category average
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Testimonials
    AivenIBM Confluent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Aiven
    Aiven is well suited for medium/big companies where the reliability for events coming in is imperative and choose to use Kafka but would like to avoid the most complex parts of the integration and instead have an easy setup. It is less suited in my opinion for smaller companies, mainly due to its pricing.
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    IBM
    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
    Aiven
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    IBM
    • Products work great.
    • Training is available.
    • Customer support is good.
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    Cons
    Aiven
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    IBM
    • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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    Support Rating
    Aiven
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    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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    Aiven
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    IBM
    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
    Aiven
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    • 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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