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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Dataflow

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGoogle offers Cloud Dataflow, a managed streaming analytics platform for real-time data insights, fraud detection, and other purposes.N/A

    IBM Confluent

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.

    $385

    per month

    Pricing
    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Confluent
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Confluent
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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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    Features
    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Confluent
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Google Cloud Dataflow and IBM Confluent
    Feature
    Google Cloud Dataflow
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Real-Time Data Analysis8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low Latency9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Enrichment8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Confluent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud DataflowIBM Confluent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    It is best in cases where you have batch as well as streaming data. Also in some cases where you have batch data right now and in future you will get streaming data. In those cases Dataflow is very good. Also in cases where most of your infra is on GCP. It might not be good when you already are on AWS or Azure. And also you want in-depth control over security and management. Then you can directly use Apache beam over Dataflow.
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    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.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Streaming, Real time work load
    • Batch processing
    • Auto scaling
    • flexible pricing
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    IBM
    • Products work great.
    • Training is available.
    • Customer support is good.
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    Cons
    Google
    • More templates for Bigquery and App Engine. There is only limited options for templates so the things we use can limit.
    • I would like native connectors for Excel (XLSX) to reduce the need for custom wrappers in financial pipelines.
    • Debugging Google Cloud Dataflow using only logs in Cloud Logging can be overwhelming sometimes, and it’s not always obvious which specific element in the flow caused a failure. IT uses a lot of time.
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    IBM
    • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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    Usability
    Google
    It really saved a lot of time and it's flexibility really can give you infra which is future-proof for most of the use cases may it be streaming or batch data. And with this you can avoid use of resource-heavy big data offerings.
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    IBM
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    Support Rating
    Google
    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Cloud Dataproc Cloud Datafusion
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    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • cost saving from managing our own data center for ETL servers
    • consumption based pricing
    • with auto scaling feature, we were able to expand components to support work load
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    IBM
    • It enables us to develop event driven application.
    • It increases our ability to handle streaming data.
    • It reduces latency of communication.
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