Cloudera Data Platform vs. IBM Confluent

IBM Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cloudera Data Platform	Score 7.3 out of 10	N/A	Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), launched September 2019, is designed to combine the best of Hortonworks and Cloudera technologies to deliver an enterprise data cloud. CDP includes the Cloudera Data Warehouse and machine learning services as well as a Data Hub service for building custom business applications.	$0.04 per CCU (hourly rate)
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

Cloudera Data Platform

IBM Confluent

Editions & Modules

CDP Public Cloud - Data Hub: $0.04
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Public Cloud - Data Warehouse: $0.054
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Public Cloud - Data Engineering: $0.07
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Public Cloud - Operational Database: $0.08
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Public Cloud - Flow Management: $0.15
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Public Cloud - Machine Learning: $0.17
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Private Cloud - Plus Edition: $400
CCU (annual subscription)
CDP Private Cloud - Base Edition: $10,000.00
node + variable (annual subscription)

Basic: $0
Standard: Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise: Starting at ~$1,150
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cloudera Data Platform	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
	Cloudera Data Platform	IBM Confluent
Considered Both Products	Cloudera Data Platform Verified User Anonymous Chose Cloudera Data Platform IBM's offering of the Cloud Pak for Data has been a moving target and difficult to compare to Cloudera Data Platform. We have implemented our solution on Amazon Web Services, which appears to be supported by IBM at this point, but the migration would be very expensive for us to … Incentivized Helpful?	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
	Cloudera Data Platform	IBM Confluent
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User Ratings
	Cloudera Data Platform	IBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cloudera Data Platform	IBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	I have seen that Cloudera Data Platform is well suited for large batch processes. It works really well for our indication analyses that are performed by the actuaries. I feel that rapid streaming operations may be a situation where additional technology would be needed to provide for a robust solution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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	Scales Highly available Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Constantly changing costs Log visibility Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	We have utilized Cloudera support quite frequently and are very satisfied with the capability and responsiveness of that team. Often, the new features delivered with the platform give us an opportunity to mature the way we're doing things, and the support team have been valuable in developing those new patterns. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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	IBM's offering of the Cloud Pak for Data has been a moving target and difficult to compare to Cloudera Data Platform. We have implemented our solution on Amazon Web Services, which appears to be supported by IBM at this point, but the migration would be very expensive for us to endeavor. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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	Reduced operational costs Speed to market Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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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