Confluent vs. Astra Streaming

Astra Streaming

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Confluent	Score 8.5 out of 10	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
Astra Streaming	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	DataStax Astra Streaming is a fully-managed event streaming service powered by Apache Pulsar that was built to scale. Astra Streaming has been built to run in the cloud of your choice, including (GCP, AWS, Microsoft Azure) without sacrificing open-source compatibility.	N/A

Pricing

Confluent

Astra Streaming

Editions & Modules

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

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Confluent	Astra Streaming
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No 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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Community Pulse
	Confluent	Astra Streaming
Top Pros	Pro Self managed Pro Types of data Pro Provides a platform	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Somewhat slow Minus Make a call Minus Cloud service	No answers on this topic

Features

Confluent

Astra Streaming

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Confluent 9.1 2 Ratings 13% above category average	Astra Streaming - Ratings
Real-Time Data Analysis	10.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards	8.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources	10.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Low Latency	9.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools	8.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out	9.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data Enrichment	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Confluent	Astra Streaming
Small Businesses	IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Tealium Customer Data Hub Score 8.5 out of 10	Confluent Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises	Spotfire Streaming Score 7.0 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 7.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Confluent	Astra Streaming
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Confluent	Astra Streaming
Likelihood to Recommend	Confluent 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	DataStax DataStax Enterprise is a state-of-the-art data management platform that manages our own data across web, mobile, and IoT applications. It is a hybrid cloud-based solution that enables us to meet the availability and performance requirements of web, IoT and mobile platforms. Incentivized Jayden Nishimura Digital Marketing Director Read full review
Pros	Confluent Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	DataStax Easy to operate and save man hours Easy installation and configuration Mature and scalable data warehouse, well supported Incentivized Jayden Nishimura Digital Marketing Director Read full review
Cons	Confluent Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	DataStax Their solution is expensive compared to other resolutions, however you get what you pay for. Incentivized Jayden Nishimura Digital Marketing Director Read full review
Support Rating	Confluent 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	DataStax No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 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	DataStax No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Confluent 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	DataStax In my personal opinion, I can mention that this product has enormous positive points because it has worked really well for us in our organization in a very positive way, for which we ourselves feel quite comfortable with this product. Incentivized Jayden Nishimura Digital Marketing Director Read full review
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