IBM Astra Streaming vs. IBM Confluent

IBM Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Astra Streaming	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Now from IBM, Astra Streaming is a serverless data streaming and event stream processing service integrated in the Astra Portal and powered by Apache Pulsar™.	N/A
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

IBM Astra Streaming

IBM Confluent

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

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

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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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
	IBM Astra Streaming	IBM Confluent

Best Alternatives
	IBM Astra Streaming	IBM Confluent
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	IBM Confluent Score 9.1 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Enterprises	Spotfire Streaming Score 5.1 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 5.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

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

User Testimonials
	IBM Astra Streaming	IBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM 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	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	IBM 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	IBM Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	IBM Their solution is expensive compared to other resolutions, however you get what you pay for. Incentivized Jayden Nishimura Digital Marketing Director Read full review	IBM Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	IBM 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	IBM No answers on this topic	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	IBM 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	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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