Azure Data Explorer vs. IBM Confluent

IBM Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Data Explorer	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Azure Data Explorer is a fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis on large volumes of data streaming from applications, websites, IoT devices, and more. Users can ask questions and iteratively explore data on the fly to improve products, enhance customer experiences, monitor devices, and boost operations. It is used to identify patterns, anomalies, and trends in data.	N/A
IBM Confluent	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	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…	$0

Pricing

Azure Data Explorer

IBM Confluent

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
Azure Data Explorer	IBM Confluent
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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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
	Azure Data Explorer	IBM Confluent
Considered Both Products	Azure Data Explorer No answer on this topic	IBM Confluent Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Azure Data Explorer	IBM Confluent
Small Businesses	IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Tealium Customer Data Hub Score 8.5 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Enterprises	Spotfire Streaming Score 5.1 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 5.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Azure Data Explorer	IBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Data Explorer	IBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Confluent replaced Microsoft Event Hubs in our environment and unblocked data platform services rollout globally. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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