IBM Confluent vs. Superstream

Superstream

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Confluent	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	IBM Confluent Platform for Z and LinuxONE is an enterprise event streaming platform designed to run on Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE environments. It enables organizations to create, manage, and process real-time data streams using Apache Kafka-based technologies. The platform provides capabilities for event ingestion, data integration, stream processing, schema management, connectors, and operational management. It supports deployment models including virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes…	$0
Superstream	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Superstream Is An AI-based engine that reduces Kafka expenses and boosts its performance without changing a single component or an existing Kafka.	N/A

Pricing

IBM Confluent

Superstream

Editions & Modules

Basic: $0
Standard: Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise: Starting at ~$1,150
per month

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Confluent	Superstream
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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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Community Pulse
	IBM Confluent	Superstream
Considered Both Products	IBM Confluent Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Confluent 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Confluent We chose to use the Confluent Platform because they provide enterprise-grade customer service support. Whenever we have trouble setting up or using the service, we can create a ticket for them and it will be resolved pretty fast. Kafka is the open-source software that comes … Incentivized Helpful?	Superstream No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
	IBM Confluent	Superstream
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	No answers on this topic	IBM Turbonomic Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Spotfire Streaming Score 5.1 out of 10	vRealize Operations (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM Confluent	Superstream
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Confluent	Superstream
Likelihood to Recommend	If your company needs to build event-driven applications, like in healthcare industry, you need to enhance interoperability, and you are seeking a reliable service with enterprise-grade support, Confluent is the best on the market you can get. Their product works great and they provide very good customer service. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Confluent replaced Microsoft Event Hubs in our environment and unblocked data platform services rollout globally. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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