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Aiven vs. IBM Confluent

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Aiven
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Aiven 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
Score 9.1 out of 10
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IBM Confluent Platform for Z and LinuxONE is an enterprise event streaming platform designed to run on Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE environments. It enables organizations to create, manage, and process real-time data streams using Apache Kafka-based technologies. The platform provides capabilities for event ingestion, data integration, stream processing, schema management, connectors, and operational management. It supports deployment models including virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes…
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Pricing
AivenIBM Confluent
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$0
Standard
Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise
Starting at ~$1,150
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AivenIBM Confluent
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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
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Considered Both Products
Aiven

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IBM Confluent
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Anonymous
Chose IBM 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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Confluent
We chose to use the Confluent Platform because they provide enterprise-grade customer service support. Whenever we have trouble setting up or using the service, we can create a ticket for them and it will be resolved pretty fast. Kafka is the open-source software that comes …
Features
AivenIBM Confluent
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Aiven
7.0
Ratings
19% below category average
IBM Confluent
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Ratings
Monitoring and metrics7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 7.4 out of 10

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Enterprises
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
AivenIBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Anonymous
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If your company needs to build event-driven applications, like in healthcare industry, you need to enhance interoperability, and you are seeking a reliable service with enterprise-grade support, Confluent is the best on the market you can get. Their product works great and they provide very good customer service.
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Pros
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  • Products work great.
  • Training is available.
  • Customer support is good.
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Anonymous
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Cons
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  • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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Support Rating
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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
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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
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  • Confluent replaced Microsoft Event Hubs in our environment and unblocked data platform services rollout globally.
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