Azure Event Hubs vs. Confluent

Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Event Hubs	Score 6.7 out of 10	N/A	Event Hubs is a managed, real-time data ingestion service that’s used to stream millions of events per second from any source to build dynamic data pipelines and respond to business challenges. Users can continue to process data during emergencies using the geo-disaster recovery and geo-replication features. It can be integrated with other Azure services to unlock insights. Existing Apache Kafka clients and applications can be allowed to talk to Event Hubs without any code changes, producing a…	N/A
Confluent	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Confluent Cloud is a cloud-native service for Apache Kafka used to connect and process data in real time with a fully managed data streaming platform. Confluent Platform is the self-managed version.	$385 per month

Pricing

Azure Event Hubs

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 Event Hubs	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 Event Hubs	Confluent

Features

Azure Event Hubs

Confluent

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Azure Event Hubs - Ratings	Confluent 9.1 2 Ratings 13% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Low Latency	00 Ratings	9.02 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out	00 Ratings	9.02 Ratings
Data Enrichment	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Azure Event Hubs	Confluent
Small Businesses	Skyvia Score 10.0 out of 10	IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Astera Data Pipeline Builder (Centerprise) Score 8.9 out of 10	Tealium Customer Data Hub Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises	Control-M Score 9.3 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 5.3 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Azure Event Hubs	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Event Hubs	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Large IoT data ingestion which needs to be processed as batches or data which requires certain time to process in such scenario Azure Event Hubs is working very effective. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Confluent 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Microsoft message queuing data processing for notification. Handling large volumes of data from multiple sources. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Confluent Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Microsoft pricing should be less integration with the services should be enhanced. Deduplication functionality should be there in Azure Event Hubs Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Confluent Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Confluent 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	Microsoft All platforms are good, costing wise it is effective, scalable is being managed by Azure Event Hubs only so only configuration is being required to do, also provides the encrypted, reliable and secure solution . Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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 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	Microsoft reducing the cost as you don't need to create a solution which is scalable increasing the productivity of the solution. customer satisfaction can be increased by integrating it as a solution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Confluent It enables us to develop event driven application. It increases our ability to handle streaming data. It reduces latency of communication. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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