IBM Confluent vs. IBM InfoSphere Optim

IBM InfoSphere Optim

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
IBM InfoSphere Optim	Score 4.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ solutions manage data from requirements to retirement, to improve governance across applications, databases and platforms by managing data properly, enabling organizations to support business goals with less risk.	N/A

Pricing

IBM Confluent

IBM InfoSphere Optim

Editions & Modules

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

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Confluent	IBM InfoSphere Optim
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
	IBM Confluent	IBM InfoSphere Optim

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	IBM Confluent	IBM InfoSphere Optim
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User Ratings
	IBM Confluent	IBM InfoSphere Optim
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (2 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Confluent	IBM InfoSphere Optim
Likelihood to Recommend	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	IBM Optim is especially recommended for those companies that have their own or third-party development teams that must be provided with a complete data environment to test the applications. Optim is not recommended for use as an ETL or Data Integration tool. Incentivized Gonzalo Angeleri Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager Read full review
Pros	IBM Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Easily extract data from production environments with no-coding Intelligent filtering capabilities using physical or logical relationships. Advanced data masking funtions Incentivized Gonzalo Angeleri Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager Read full review
Cons	IBM Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Poor UI Complex architecture Incentivized Gonzalo Angeleri Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager Read full review
Support Rating	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	IBM No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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	IBM No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	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	IBM Optim can save companies a lot of money by protecting the sensitive data found in their databases, thus avoiding the theft of real customer information with the economic and media impact that this has. Accelerate the generation of non-productive environments saving time from human resources. Incentivized Gonzalo Angeleri Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager Read full review
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