Confluent vs. Software AG Universal Messaging

Confluent

Software AG Universal Messaging

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Confluent	Score 8.3 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
Software AG Universal Messaging	Score 6.8 out of 10	N/A	Software AG Universal Messaging is presented as a single solution for high-performance, low-latency messaging across a wide array of delivery channels, including all mainstream enterprise, web and mobile platforms. The venodr states that for the enterprise, Software AG Universal Messaging delivers high throughput messaging for resilient, secure and highly scalable applications. For web and mobile, Software AG Universal Messaging was designed to provide real-time streaming to the edge of…	N/A

Pricing

Confluent

Software AG Universal Messaging

Editions & Modules

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

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Confluent	Software AG Universal Messaging
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

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	Software AG Universal Messaging
Top Pros	Pro Self managed Pro Types of data Pro Provides a platform	Pro Integration platform Pro Low latency Pro High performance
Top Cons	Minus Somewhat slow Minus Make a call Minus Cloud service	No answers on this topic

Features

Confluent

Software AG Universal Messaging

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Confluent 9.1 2 Ratings 13% above category average	Software AG Universal Messaging - 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	Software AG Universal Messaging
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	Apache Kafka Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Spotfire Streaming Score 7.0 out of 10	Apache Kafka Score 8.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Confluent	Software AG Universal Messaging
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (2 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Confluent	Software AG Universal Messaging
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	Software AG Software AG Universal Messaging is best used in conjunction with Software AG webMethods integration platform, as it works seamlessly with other components of that platform such as webMethods Integration Server and webMethods Trading Networks. It can be used with any messaging client developed in Java or .NET and supports JMS clients, however, it is best suited to being used as one component in an organization that is going to implement the entire webMethods platform to implement their Enterprise Service Bus integration solution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Confluent Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Software AG Low latency high performance messaging and event handling High availability Horizontal scalability Seamless integration with Software AG webMethods integration platform Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Confluent Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Software AG Logging Administration Observability Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Software AG 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	Software AG Software AG Universal Messaging has excellent performance characteristics, a good high availability story, and works great when you are using the other products in the Software AG webMethods integration platform, as our organization is. It has relatively high licensing costs, which is a large negative when compared with open-source solutions such as Apache Kafka. However, Software AG provides good support services, and is a market leader in the integration space, giving some surety for risk-averse organizations that if something goes wrong we have a vendor we can rely on to help fix it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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	Software AG Enables disparate software systems to be integrated, reducing manual data entry Enables high performance event handling for data lakes and analytics Has relatively high licensing costs Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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