Cloudera Manager vs. IBM Confluent

IBM Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cloudera Manager	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Cloudera Manager is a management application for Apache Hadoop and the enterprise data hub, from Cloudera. Its automated wizards let users quickly deploy a cluster, no matter what the scale or the deployment environment, complete with intelligent, system-based default settings.	$0.07 per hour CCU
IBM Confluent	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	IBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.	$385 per month

Pricing

Cloudera Manager

IBM Confluent

Editions & Modules

Data Hub: $0.04/CCU
Hourly rate
Data Engineering: $0.07/CCU
Hourly rate
Data Warehouse: $0.07/CCU
Hourly rate
Operational Database: $0.08/CCU
Hourly rate
Flow Management on Data Hub: $0.15/CCU
Hourly rate
Machine Learning: $0.17/CCU
Hourly rate
DataFlow: $0.30/CCU
Hourly rate

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

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cloudera Manager	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

Pricing is per Cloudera Compute Unit (CCU) which is a combination of Core and Memory. CCU prices shown for each service are estimates and may vary depending on actual instance types. The prices reflected do not include infrastructure cost, networking costs, and other related costs which will vary depending on the services you choose and your cloud service provider.

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 Manager	IBM Confluent

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User Ratings
	Cloudera Manager	IBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (2 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cloudera Manager	IBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	Cloudera It would be suited for customers who feel more comfortable with using a GUI. It is less appropriate for developers or engineers who are comfortable with command line Incentivized Ethan Tran Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Cloudera Graphical user interface Management of third party applications start/stop/restart functionality through framework Support of Apache Hadoop ecosystem Ability to do "rolling restarts" Incentivized Charles Inglese Senior System Engineer Read full review	IBM Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Cloudera Cloudera Manager needs to be more agile with integrating other applications, such as Accumulo 1.7, to their software. Cloudera Manager can do a better job at explaining why a node fails to add to a cluster using their assistant. Cloudera Manager should show graphs only when there is data, instead of showing just an empty box. Incentivized Ethan Tran Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	IBM Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Cloudera It is a well developed product with a good user interface. Incentivized Charles Inglese Senior System Engineer Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Cloudera 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cloudera I have not used any competitors, such as Hortonworks, because Cloudera Manager just works and meets all my customer's needs. I only have deployed Hadoop using command line, which is not easy to use and manage. Incentivized Ethan Tran Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Cloudera Cloudera Manager has allowed our organization to deploy Apache Hadoop to operations quicker and with less training versus using the command line exclusively. Increased employee efficiency. Increased product adoption. Incentivized Charles Inglese Senior System Engineer Read full review	IBM 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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