CData Sync vs. Confluent

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CData Sync
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
CData's Sync is a data pipeline tool able to connect data sources to the user's database or data warehouse, supporting at present over 200 possible sources, and a range of destinations (e.g. Snowflake, S3, Redshift), connecting on-premise or SaaS sources and destinations.N/A
Confluent
Score 8.5 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
CData SyncConfluent
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$0
Standard
Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise
Starting at ~$1,150
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CData SyncConfluent
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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
CData SyncConfluent
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Features
CData SyncConfluent
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
CData Sync
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Ratings
Confluent
9.1
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Low Latency00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Data Enrichment00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
CData SyncConfluent
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CData SyncConfluent
Likelihood to Recommend
CData Software
Evidently, CData Sync is an excellent middleware tool that is perfect for syncing data between systems. It is especially suitable and works well on SQL servers, DB2, MySQL, and Snowflake, and some of their brothering domains. However, it is a limitation in working with Sage 50 API. But if it is extracted with ODBC, it works well.
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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.
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Pros
CData Software
  • Effortless use of no-code interfaces on data pipelining on.
  • High demand numbers of sources and destinations.
  • Works with even snowflake, with no error occurrence.
  • It uses ETL - (Extract / Transfer / Load).
  • It enhances data extraction and database support.
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Confluent
  • Products work great.
  • Training is available.
  • Customer support is good.
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Cons
CData Software
  • Although efficient for SQL servers and MySQL, as well as Snowflake. It is not strong for other database engines, and an upgrade on this would do a lot.
  • The installation process is manual as opposed to the cloud installation it should be.
  • A feature of syncing auto increment ID key, that will help in existing data management.
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Confluent
  • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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Support Rating
CData Software
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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.
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Alternatives Considered
CData Software
Tableau is another similar software tool, unlike CData Sync, rather transforms data into actionable insights. While CData Sync works with automation, Tableau uses a drag box on its AVA, which in turn slows the work speed on the syncing of data. Over the years, I enjoyed the friendly and customizable option of CData Sync over Tableau's.
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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.
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Return on Investment
CData Software
  • Reserves resources by covering human power via its automated sync method.
  • Saves time: on launching data collectively into a compatible domain.
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Confluent
  • It enables us to develop event driven application.
  • It increases our ability to handle streaming data.
  • It reduces latency of communication.
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