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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Confluent

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.

    $385

    per month

    Striim

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AStriim is an enterprise-grade platform that offers continuous real-time data ingestion, high-speed in-flight stream processing, and sub-second delivery of data to cloud and on-premises endpoints.

    $4,400

    per month per 100 million Striim events

    Pricing
    IBM ConfluentStriim
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
    Striim Cloud Enterprise Platform
    $4,400
    per month per 100 million Striim events
    Striim Platform
    $20,000
    per year per VCPU
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM ConfluentStriim
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/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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    Community Pulse
    IBM ConfluentStriim
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    IBM
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    Striim
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
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    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
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    Features
    IBM ConfluentStriim
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of IBM Confluent and Striim
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Striim
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of IBM Confluent and Striim
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Striim
    8.9
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings7.82 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of IBM Confluent and Striim
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Striim
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings7.82 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of IBM Confluent and Striim
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Striim
    9.5
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM ConfluentStriim
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (18 ratings)
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM ConfluentStriim
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Very reliable product and help with streaming messages without fail which is a significant confidence booster as an SRE leader. Would recommend the product considering the fact that now it is backed by IBM in addition to all IBM Confluent was doing well before the acquisition. Has been a game changer for our organization
    Incentivized
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    Striim
    Below samples are the well suited use cases; - Change data capture feature seamlessly works on popular RDMS. You can make enrichments on several data sources within the same Striim application. - You can install stand alone agents and start streaming log files to Striim servers. This is mainly useful for security operations or audit trail use cases.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    IBM
    • It works really well in providing data context for our customers.
    • It is helpful in real time data streaming.
    • It is really wonderful tool for doing data validations and massaging the data.
    Incentivized
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    Striim
    • GoldenGate Trail reader which iss faster than Oracle CDC. It does not used logminer, hence there is no load on source Oracle database.
    • Easy installation and upgrade in 5 minutes
    • Support is very good. Fast and user friendly.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Iit needs to improve in AI agents usage.
    • It needs to be more user friendly.
    • It is too complicated for beginners.
    Incentivized
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    Striim
    • License a bit expensive
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    Usability
    IBM
    Kafka and Schema Registry are the rock solid fully managed offerings from IBM Confluent Cloud. Other than that the rest of the offerings do not work as expected.
    Incentivized
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    Striim
    No answers on this topic
    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
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    Striim
    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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    Striim
    Faster, checkpointing better. CDC works well. The loading is faster. Easy upgrade and installation. Uses less resource.
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • IBM Confluent helps us get data moving from system to system at near real time.
    • IBM Confluent makes pushing data into a data lake easy - analytics, targeted deals, etc
    • The RBAC and ACL setup helps us govern and secure our data, even between teams/applications.
    Incentivized
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    Striim
    • We got the license at a discount price
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