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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

    Tanzu Application Catalog

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Tanzu Application Catalog (or Bitnami) provides packaged applications for any platform. The platform delivers and maintains a catalog of 130+ ready-to-run server applications and development environments in partnership with cloud providers including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, driving over 1.5 million deployments per month. Bitnami was acquired by VMware in 2019.

    $0.50

    per month

    Pricing
    IBM ConfluentTanzu Application Catalog
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
    10GB
    $0.50
    per month
    T3A Nano
    $3.38
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM ConfluentTanzu Application Catalog
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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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    IBM ConfluentTanzu Application Catalog
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    Features
    IBM ConfluentTanzu Application Catalog
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of IBM Confluent and Tanzu Application Catalog
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Tanzu Application Catalog
    8.1
    5 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.15 Ratings
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud Pub/Sub
    Score8.8 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM ConfluentTanzu Application Catalog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM ConfluentTanzu Application Catalog
    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.
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    Broadcom
    The best way to take advantage of VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) is as in the case I mentioned, that you constantly implement these free software, where any time saved is important in terms of installation, configuration and testing environment, it really is a very useful solution, also if you need a good community and support; however the cloud and VMs solutions is not designed for huge products, these can be slow or remain insufficient if the use of these grows a lot, even though it is an easy-to-use product, you need to have enough knowledge in terms of installation and management of cloud solutions, a beginner can find himself in trouble
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Products work great.
    • Training is available.
    • Customer support is good.
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    Broadcom
    • pre-packaged templates they provide.
    • ease of cloud-deployment of your projects.
    • The development community page always has useful information and there is a lot of support.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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    Broadcom
    • Possibility to configure the implementation through mobile devices
    • Sometimes the performance of the VMs is slower than expected
    • A best way to do the upgrades, you have reinstall and reconfigure in this process
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Broadcom
    Most of it is intuitive. I think some of the awkwardness is found by new users who are unfamiliar with other software applications.
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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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    Broadcom
    They have an expert team, not just a frontline team that has learned the FAQs but a team that knows the product.
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    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.
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    Broadcom
    VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) offers better tools to complete the task faster and more efficiently. The customer support and knowledge base is also well presented and trained
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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.
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    Broadcom
    • We save a lot of time implementing the apps, less engineers working on this phase
    • The upgrade process of the apps can be a pain and a waste valuable time
    • The mains options of the VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) are free so is important for save money in our organization
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