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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Informatica Cloud Data Integration

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AInformatica Cloud Data Integration, for Cloud ETL and ELT, enables users to ingest, integrate and cleanse data within Informatica's cloud-native ETL and ELT solution. Users can link source and target data with thousands of connectors that recognize metadata, to make it easier to run complex integrations.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM ConfluentInformatica Cloud Data Integration
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM ConfluentInformatica Cloud Data Integration
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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
    IBM ConfluentInformatica Cloud Data Integration
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of IBM Confluent and Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of IBM Confluent and Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of IBM Confluent and Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of IBM Confluent and Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM ConfluentInformatica Cloud Data Integration
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM ConfluentInformatica Cloud Data Integration
    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
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    Informatica
    We use it a lot for importing data. We transform the incoming data to match the formatting of our CRM. We also match on existing records to avoid creating duplicates. Informatica handles all of this exceptionally well. Our users are system administrators. The tool is not well-suited for users who do not have a technical background
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Products work great.
    • Training is available.
    • Customer support is good.
    Incentivized
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    Informatica
    • Data synchronisation
    • Data replication
    • Data integration
    Read full review
    Cons
    IBM
    • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
    Incentivized
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    Informatica
    • There is a moderately steep learning curve
    • Has some idiosyncrasies
    • Can be finicky with date formats
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Informatica
    There is a learning curve with Informatica. It is not always intuitive to use. It is best suited for technical users such as system administrators
    Incentivized
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    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.
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    Informatica
    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
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    Informatica
    It is really easy to comply and understand its features.
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    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
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    Informatica
    • Really greatest than any other conventional application.
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