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Fivetran vs. IBM Confluent

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fivetran
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Fivetran replicates applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance data warehouse, after a five minute setup. The vendor says their standardized cloud pipelines are fully managed and zero-maintenance. The vendor says Fivetran began with a realization: For modern companies using cloud-based software and storage, traditional ETL tools badly underperformed, and the complicated configurations they required often led to project failures. To streamline and accelerate…
$0.01
per credit
IBM Confluent
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
IBM Confluent Platform for Z and LinuxONE is an enterprise event streaming platform designed to run on Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE environments. It enables organizations to create, manage, and process real-time data streams using Apache Kafka-based technologies. The platform provides capabilities for event ingestion, data integration, stream processing, schema management, connectors, and operational management. It supports deployment models including virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes…
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Pricing
FivetranIBM Confluent
Editions & Modules
Starter
$0.01
per credit
Standard
$0.01
per credit
Enterprise
$0.01
per credit
Basic
$0
Standard
Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise
Starting at ~$1,150
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FivetranIBM Confluent
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details—Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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
FivetranIBM Confluent
Considered Both Products
Fivetran
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fivetran
Matillion requires a lot more initial setup effort and the resulting schemas are also much more "raw" data than the nicely cleaned schemas which Fivetran provides. Therefore it would also require more (manual) post-processing efforts compared to Fivetran. So the savings on time …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fivetran
Fivetran is much easier to set up and maintain. Airbyte still had a degree of technical knowledge requirement that we didn't have the resources to commit. Fivetran allowed a non-technical employee to establish pipelines and immediately start using the data without having to …
Uddipan Mukherjee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Uddipan Mukherjee
Big Data Specialist
Chose Fivetran
Fivetran is a powerful data replication tool that supported use cases for organization-wide data platforms.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fivetran
We never seriously considered using anything else. Our data engineers had used Fivetran extensively in previous roles so when it came time to make a decision, there wasn't much of a process. They gladly signed the contract with Fivetran pretty quickly.
Sudarshan Kothari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sudarshan Kothari
Senior Data Scientist
Chose Fivetran
Fivetran came well with the connectors' availability and updates with the source changes.
We had an idea on data requirements in our case which helped us to work out on cost implication and take a decision for Fivetran as a data provider for our organization.
These were 2 …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fivetran
Fivetran is more intuitive and easier to use than code-based ETL/ELT tools. The data modelling Fivetran performs makes the data more usable more quickly. Fivetran's dbt support and integration is unique.
Scott Laronge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Laronge
Head of Data Science
Chose Fivetran
Honestly, we haven't done much investigation in a while, it just works 360 days of the year. The other five days there may be a hiccup that will throw us a day off of data, but it gets caught up in the end.
IBM Confluent
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM 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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Confluent
We chose to use the Confluent Platform because they provide enterprise-grade customer service support. Whenever we have trouble setting up or using the service, we can create a ticket for them and it will be resolved pretty fast. Kafka is the open-source software that comes …
Features
FivetranIBM Confluent
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Fivetran
10.0
Ratings
19% above category average
IBM Confluent
-
Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Fivetran
7.4
Ratings
9% below category average
IBM Confluent
-
Ratings
Simple transformations7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Complex transformations7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Fivetran
6.2
Ratings
24% below category average
IBM Confluent
-
Ratings
Data model creation2.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Metadata management4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing and debugging9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Fivetran
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
IBM Confluent
-
Ratings
Integration with data quality tools8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
FivetranIBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FivetranIBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend
[Fivetran is] very well suited when you are using popular and common data sources, such as the major ad platforms, and SaaS platforms such as Salesforce. If the majority of your data sources are custom internal applications or databases, may be less value as you aren't leveraging the delivered connectors.
Verified User
Anonymous
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If your company needs to build event-driven applications, like in healthcare industry, you need to enhance interoperability, and you are seeking a reliable service with enterprise-grade support, Confluent is the best on the market you can get. Their product works great and they provide very good customer service.
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Anonymous
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Pros
  • Simplified ETL from a wide range of data sources
  • Stable and painless data pipeline
  • Granular control over what parts of the data source are loaded
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Anonymous
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  • Products work great.
  • Training is available.
  • Customer support is good.
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Anonymous
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Cons
  • Doesn't include support for a Kinesis stream as a data source so couldn't be used for some use cases under consideration
  • Doesn't support the use of "BEFORE DELETE" triggers
  • No support for serverless Aurora
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Anonymous
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  • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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Anonymous
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Usability
Very easy and intuitive to setup and maintain as there usually are not that many options. Very well documented (e.g. how to setup each connector, how the schema looks like, any specific features of this connector etc.). Also the operation is intuitive, e.g. you have status pages, log pages, configuration pages etc. for each connector.
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Anonymous
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No answers on this topic
Performance
It runs pretty well and gets our data from point A to point cluster quickly enough. Honestly, it's not something I think about unless it breaks and that's pretty rare.
Scott Laronge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Laronge
Head of Data Science
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
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.
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Alternatives Considered
Fivetran came well with the connectors' availability and updates with the source changes. We had an idea on data requirements in our case which helped us to work out on cost implication and take a decision for Fivetran as a data provider for our organization. These were 2 places where Fivetran out-performed, other vendors.
Sudarshan Kothari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sudarshan Kothari
Senior Data Scientist
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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.
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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Saved a lot of manual development days (unable to quantify)
  • Accelerated the time to add a new source to the data warehouse a lot
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Anonymous
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  • Confluent replaced Microsoft Event Hubs in our environment and unblocked data platform services rollout globally.
Verified User
Anonymous
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