Azure Stream Analytics vs. Confluent

Azure Stream Analytics

Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Stream Analytics	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft offers Azure Stream Analytics for IoT and connected devices, supporting real-time analytics and reporting.	$0.11 per hour with a 1 SU minimum
Confluent	Score 7.4 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.	N/A

Pricing

Azure Stream Analytics

Confluent

Editions & Modules

Standard: $0.11
per hour with a 1 SU minimum
Dedicated: $0.11
per hour with a 36 SU minimum

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Azure Stream Analytics	Confluent
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Azure Stream Analytics is priced by the number of Streaming Units provisioned. A Streaming Unit represents the amount of memory and compute allocated to your resources.

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Azure Stream Analytics	Confluent
Top Pros	Pro Real time Pro Time data Pro Real time data	Pro Self managed Pro Types of data Pro Provides a platform
Top Cons	Minus Slightly difficult	Minus Somewhat slow Minus Make a call Minus Cloud service

Features

Azure Stream Analytics

Confluent

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Azure Stream Analytics 6.1 1 Ratings 28% below category average	Confluent 9.1 2 Ratings 12% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis	7.01 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources	7.01 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Low Latency	8.01 Ratings	9.02 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools	2.01 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out	5.01 Ratings	9.02 Ratings
Data Enrichment	7.01 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Azure Stream Analytics	Confluent
Small Businesses	IBM Streams Score 9.0 out of 10	IBM Streams Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Confluent Score 7.4 out of 10	Tealium Customer Data Hub Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Spotfire Streaming Score 8.0 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 8.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Azure Stream Analytics	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Stream Analytics	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Data enrichment is effectively done in stream analytics also checking the values with different functionality like windowing and group by clause is effectively working. 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 Routing of data from multiple inputs to multiple output You create your own user define function. Intermediate query is working very effectively. 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 Code competency is not that much effective Ml models can't be integrated with stream analytics 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 Azure Stream Analytics is easy to implement and also to integrate compare to other services like iot analytics 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 Very nice roi while using it. Multiple integration is the best functionality 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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