Apache Kafka vs Anypoint Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

Despite the disadvantages I list, I really believe that Kafka is the right choice whenever you need a queueing or message broker system. Kafka is way too battle-tested and scales too well to ever not consider it. The only exception is if your use case requires many, many small topics. Also, Kafka doesn't support delay queues out of the box and so you will need to "hack" it through special code on the consumer side.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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While the Anypoint Platform is a newcomer to API management tools, it still manages to be feature-rich and offers many resources for both API development and deployment needs.Pros:

Intuitive user interface. It's extremely easy to locate API information and consume analytic information. - Easy to do create new APIs via RAML. - Fast and easy deployments and updates. - Wide range of connectors.

Cons:

Customer support can be a bit slow and hard to reach. - Developer Portals for APIs do not allow for much customization. - If you manage a lot of APIs, it is hard to keep track and administer APIs since tables do not let you sort using API request date and other variables.

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Nikhil Kohli

Service Delivery Lead

StrykerMedical Devices, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Apache Kafka

Anypoint Platform

Pre-built connectors

Connector modification

Support for real-time and batch integration

Data quality services

Data security features

Monitoring console

Pros

Apache Kafka is able to handle a large number of I/Os (writes) using 3-4 cheap servers.
It scales very well over large workloads and can handle extreme-scale deployments (eg. Linkedin with 300 billion user events each day).
The same Kafka setup can be used as a messaging bus, storage system or a log aggregator making it easy to maintain as one system feeding multiple applications.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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API Manager provides easy API Policy Governance. You do not have to manage multiple platforms for managing the policies.
Supports hybrid Mule EBS environments. You can configure both CouldHub-based and on-premise-based API using Mulesoft API manager in a similar manner.
It's very easy to implement API proxy.
User friendly UI.
Single platform to manage all.

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Deepak Kushwaha

Tech Arch Sr. Analyst

Accenture AustraliaInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Still a bit inmature, some clients have required recoding in the last few versions
New feaures coming very fast, several upgrades a year may be required
Not many commercial companies provide support

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Juan Francisco Tavira

Global Technology Centre - Middleware

ProdubanFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Mulesoft has tons of capabilities however where I see it's lacking is usability, it's tough to set-up Anypoint Studio on local machines. Though flow designer is an alternate to that, however, it has very limited capabilities and it's extremely tough to build integrations there for business users.
Very expensive and no pay as you go model.

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Apache Kafka 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Kafka is quickly becoming core product of the organization, indeed it is replacing older messaging systems. No better alternatives found yet

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Juan Francisco Tavira

Global Technology Centre - Middleware

ProdubanFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Anypoint Platform 9.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Usability

No score

No answers yet

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Anypoint Platform 8.0

Based on 1 answer

simple and easy graphics and containers helps developers to write complex flows

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Federica Bianco

Integration architect

NTT DATA ItaliaInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Apache Kafka 8.8

Based on 6 answers

We are using the Apache open source version of Kafka. The community is a good place to ask questions. and we can get most of our problems resolved there.

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Verified User

Strategist in Information Technology

Package/Freight Delivery Company, 10,001+ employees

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Anypoint Platform 6.8

Based on 8 answers

Anypoint Platform support is very responsive. There is also a huge knowledge base and an active online forum where answers to most questions can be found. When needed support engages the engineering group so adequate solutions or workarounds are always provided.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I would only use RabbitMQ over Kafka when you need to have delay queues or tons of small topics/queues around.I don't know too much about Pulsar - currently evaluating it - but it's supposed to have the same or better throughput while allowing for tons of queues. Stay tuned - I might update this review after we finish evaluating Pulsar. It's much less battle-tested though.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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Anypoint Platform is really very easy to adopt for application integration. Simple UI and easy data weave language allows user to focus on business portion only. The API management and deployment of application are hassle free. We have selected Anypoint platform because it is open source and java based platform. A user can create proprietary application's connector and easily embed it to existing infrastructure.

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Kamta Prasad

Technical Lead

AlgoworksComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Positive impact on ROI since now we can use one large deployment of Apache Kafka that can be used for multiple scenarios ( storage systems, log aggregate, messaging queue ).
It is open-source so there are no licenses or subscription fees reducing the cost of deployment.
Data can now be ingested and analyzed in real-time making it easy to fine-tune the customer experience and decision making for internal IT.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Mulesoft can be used to provide an integration platform to a large number of systems like Salesforce, ODBC, JDBC, SAP, Mongo DB, etc.
An excellent option to develop microservices and real-time integrations.
Not as robust in handling large data volumes, Informatica is better in that respect.

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Nikhil Kohli

Service Delivery Lead

StrykerMedical Devices, 10,001+ employees

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Apache Kafka

Anypoint Platform

Apache Kafka

Anypoint Platform

Apache Kafka

Anypoint Platform

Apache Kafka

Anypoint Platform

Apache Kafka vs Anypoint Platform

Apache Kafka

Anypoint Platform

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Data quality services

Data security features

Monitoring console

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