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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudera Data Platform

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ACloudera 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

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.

    $385

    per month

    Pricing
    Cloudera Data PlatformIBM 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 ~$1,150
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cloudera Data PlatformIBM Confluent
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    86%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    88%
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    User Ratings
    Cloudera Data PlatformIBM Confluent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.6
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (16 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cloudera Data PlatformIBM Confluent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudera
    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.
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    IBM
    Very reliable product and help with streaming messages without fail which is a significant confidence booster as an SRE leader. Would recommend the product considering the fact that now it is backed by IBM in addition to all IBM Confluent was doing well before the acquisition. Has been a game changer for our organization
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    Pros
    Cloudera
    • Scales
    • Highly available
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • It works really well in providing data context for our customers.
    • It is helpful in real time data streaming.
    • It is really wonderful tool for doing data validations and massaging the data.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cloudera
    • Constantly changing costs
    • Log visibility
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • Iit needs to improve in AI agents usage.
    • It needs to be more user friendly.
    • It is too complicated for beginners.
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    Usability
    Cloudera
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Kafka and Schema Registry are the rock solid fully managed offerings from IBM Confluent Cloud. Other than that the rest of the offerings do not work as expected.
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    Support Rating
    Cloudera
    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.
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    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
    Cloudera
    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.
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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
    Cloudera
    • Reduced operational costs
    • Speed to market
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    IBM
    • IBM Confluent helps us get data moving from system to system at near real time.
    • IBM Confluent makes pushing data into a data lake easy - analytics, targeted deals, etc
    • The RBAC and ACL setup helps us govern and secure our data, even between teams/applications.
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