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Apache Kafka vs Talend Data Integration

Apache Kafka
97 Ratings
Talend Data Integration
61 Ratings

Apache Kafka

97 Ratings
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Score 9.1 out of 100

Based on 97 reviews and ratings

Talend Data Integration

61 Ratings
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Score 8.3 out of 100

Based on 61 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

    Data Source Connection

    Apache Kafka

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    8.3

    Talend Data Integration

    83%
    Talend Data Integration ranks higher in 2/2 features
    Talend Data Integration ranks higher in 2/2 features

    Connect to traditional data sources

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    9 Ratings

    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.6
    76%
    8 Ratings

    Data Transformations

    Apache Kafka

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    9.0

    Talend Data Integration

    90%
    Talend Data Integration ranks higher in 2/2 features
    Talend Data Integration ranks higher in 2/2 features

    Simple transformations

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    9 Ratings

    Complex transformations

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    9 Ratings

    Data Modeling

    Apache Kafka

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    7.8

    Talend Data Integration

    78%
    Talend Data Integration ranks higher in 6/6 features
    Talend Data Integration ranks higher in 6/6 features

    Data model creation

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.0
    70%
    8 Ratings

    Metadata management

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0
    80%
    8 Ratings

    Business rules and workflow

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    7 Ratings

    Collaboration

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    4.9
    49%
    8 Ratings

    Testing and debugging

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.7
    87%
    9 Ratings

    feature 1

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    2 Ratings

    Data Governance

    Apache Kafka

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    7.8

    Talend Data Integration

    78%
    Talend Data Integration ranks higher in 2/2 features
    Talend Data Integration ranks higher in 2/2 features

    Integration with data quality tools

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.5
    75%
    8 Ratings

    Integration with MDM tools

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0
    80%
    8 Ratings

    Attribute Ratings

    • Apache Kafka is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Support Rating

    Likelihood to Recommend

    9.3

    Apache Kafka

    93%
    13 Ratings
    8.8

    Talend Data Integration

    88%
    9 Ratings

    Likelihood to Renew

    9.0

    Apache Kafka

    90%
    1 Rating

    Talend Data Integration

    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Usability

    10.0

    Apache Kafka

    100%
    1 Rating
    9.0

    Talend Data Integration

    90%
    1 Rating

    Support Rating

    8.6

    Apache Kafka

    86%
    7 Ratings
    5.5

    Talend Data Integration

    55%
    6 Ratings

    Likelihood to Recommend

    Apache Kafka

    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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    Talend Data Integration

    The same way you design data integration job can be used to design services. It is easy to enhance by custom components and can adapt to all requirements. Talend Data Integration connects to [a] multitude of data sources and streaming service. Very easy interface to design complex applications without spending much time on coding. Easy to learn and master. Talend constantly strives to better itself by adding more features and functionalities.

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    Pros

    Apache Kafka

    • 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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    Talend Data Integration

    • The speed of migration is very good for a Free ETL tool.
    • The amount of components or connectors we have is impressive.

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    Cons

    Apache Kafka

    • The Kafka Tool is a community-made Java application that looks and feels from the past century.
    • Logging can be confusing. This certainly shows when we have to do troubleshooting.
    • Hybrid scenarios - pub/sub, but there are services in and outside a Kubernetes cluster. Then there are a ~3 options, but only 2 (the harder ones) are production-safe.

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    Borislav Traykov | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Talend Data Integration

    • Syncing with Git should be made easier
    • Can face issues with certain big data spaces
    • Support find it difficult to resolve complex issues

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Pricing Details

    Apache Kafka

    General

    Free Trial
    —
    Free/Freemium Version
    —
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    —
    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Starting Price

    —

    Talend Data Integration

    General

    Free Trial
    —
    Free/Freemium Version
    —
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    —
    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Starting Price

    —

    Likelihood to Renew

    Apache Kafka

    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
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    Talend Data Integration

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Usability

    Apache Kafka

    Apache Kafka 10.0
    Based on 1 answer
    Apache Kafka is highly recommended to develop loosely coupled, real-time processing applications. Also, Apache Kafka provides property based configuration. Producer, Consumer and broker contain their own separate property file

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    Jimesh V Shah | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Jimesh V Shah
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    Talend Data Integration

    Talend Data Integration 9.0
    Based on 1 answer
    We use Talend Data Integration day in and day out. It is the best and easiest tool to jump on to and use. We can build a basic integration super-fast. We could build basic integrations as fast as within the hour. It is also easy to build transformations and use Java to perform some operations.

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    Support Rating

    Apache Kafka

    Apache Kafka 8.6
    Based on 7 answers
    Support for Apache Kafka (if willing to pay) is available from Confluent that includes the same time that created Kafka at Linkedin so they know this software in and out. Moreover, Apache Kafka is well known and best practices documents and deployment scenarios are easily available for download. For example, from eBay, Linkedin, Uber, and NYTimes.

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    Talend Data Integration

    Talend Data Integration 5.5
    Based on 6 answers
    Good support, specially when it relates to PROD environment. The support team has access to the product development team. Things are internally escalated to development team if there is a bug encountered. This helps the customer to get quick fix or patch designed for problem exceptions. I have also seen support showing their willingness to help develop custom connector for a newly available cloud based big data solution

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    Alternatives Considered

    Apache Kafka

    We really needed to get away from using a SQL database to act as a queue for processing records, so a new solution was needed. Kafka is a leading software application initially designed for queuing messages which is essentially what we were looking for. It has a great user community and is used across the industry. We also use and trust several other products from Confluent which helped seal the decision.

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    Tyler Twitchell | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Talend Data Integration

    Talend is much versatile in assimilating various different business use cases. It covers more functionality and is packed with tons of features to explore. It has the ability to fine tune to each project, and not be a one-fits all solution. Problems with Excel, is that it is not suited for large projects, collaboration work. Alteryx is a very costly alternative.

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    Sanket Bharaswadkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Sanket Bharaswadkar
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    Return on Investment

    Apache Kafka

    • Kafka makes the messaging itself more reliable (as it has the distributed storage by itself and the message doesn't disappear even after it has been consumed).
    • Kafka can support a much higher volume use case, without too much extra pressure on the existed hardware.

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Talend Data Integration

    • Easy to build complex data transformations.
    • Licensing model isn't that flexible.
    • Memory mangement for huge volumes of information. You have to modify ETL designs to handle it properly.

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    Josep Coves Barreiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
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