IBM Confluent vs. Tableau Cloud
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IBM Confluent | Score9.1 out of 10 | N/A | IBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments. | $385 per month |
Tableau Cloud | Score8.1 out of 10 | N/A | Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device. | $15 per month per user |
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| Additional Details | Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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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No answers on this topic | 92% Delivers good value for the price 22 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 89% Happy with the feature set 25 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 14 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Implementation went as expected 13 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | Amazon SNS Score8.7 out of 10 | Cyfe Score4 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Amazon SNS Score8.7 out of 10 | Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense) Score8.1 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Google Cloud Pub/Sub Score8.8 out of 10 | Sisense Score6.9 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 10.0 | 8.9 |
| Usability | - | 8.6 |
| Support Rating | 10.0 | 8.7 |
| Data Sharing and Collaboration | - | 8.0 |
| Data Sources | - | 8.3 |
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