Confluent vs. Dagster
Confluent vs. Dagster
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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Confluent | 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 | |
Dagster | N/A | Dagster is an open source orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets, supported by Elementl. Dagster Cloud is an enterprise orchestration platform that puts developer experience first, with fully serverless or hybrid deployments, native branching, and out-of-the-box CI/CD. | $0.03 per compute minute |
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| Additional Details | Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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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| Small Businesses | IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10 | Skyvia Score 10.0 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Tealium Customer Data Hub Score 8.5 out of 10 | Astera Data Pipeline Builder (Centerprise) Score 8.9 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Spotfire Streaming Score 5.3 out of 10 | Control-M Score 9.3 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 10.0 (2 ratings) | - (0 ratings) |
| Support Rating | 10.0 (1 ratings) | - (0 ratings) |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | ![]() Confluent
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| Support Rating | ![]() Confluent
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| Alternatives Considered | ![]() Confluent
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| Return on Investment | ![]() Confluent
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