IBM Confluent vs. meshIQ
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IBM Confluent | Score8.6 out of 10 | N/A | IBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments. | $385 per month |
meshIQ | Score8.9 out of 10 | Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees) | meshIQ provides observability and management capabilities for middleware platforms, from modern Kafka-based streaming to legacy messaging technologies such as IBM MQ, across cloud and on-premises environments. | N/A |
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| Additional Details | Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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| Would buy again | ||
94% Would buy again 17 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
100% Delivers good value for the price 14 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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94% Happy with the feature set 17 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
86% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 12 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Implementation went as expected | ||
88% Implementation went as expected 15 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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| Small Businesses | Amazon SNS Score8.8 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | Amazon SNS Score8.8 out of 10 | Logz.io Score8.2 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Google Cloud Pub/Sub Score8.8 out of 10 | NetBrain Technologies Score8.8 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.6 | 9.0 |
| Usability | 7.4 | - |
| Support Rating | 10.0 | - |
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