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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CData Sync

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ACData'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

    IBM Confluent

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.

    $385

    per month

    Pricing
    CData SyncIBM Confluent
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CData SyncIBM Confluent
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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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    Features
    CData SyncIBM Confluent
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of CData Sync and IBM Confluent
    Feature
    CData Sync
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    IBM Confluent
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    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of CData Sync and IBM Confluent
    Feature
    CData Sync
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Collaboration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    CData SyncIBM Confluent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CData SyncIBM Confluent
    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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    IBM
    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
    • UPSERT
    • Friendly interface
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    IBM
    • 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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    IBM
    • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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    Usability
    CData Software
    It is easy to setup and use
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    IBM
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    Support Rating
    CData Software
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    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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    IBM
    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
    • Positive: Easy way to bring data for our DWH
    • Negative: Frequent issue in CData Sync Server
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    IBM
    • 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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