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Confluent Platform
What is Confluent Platform?
Confluent is a powerful event stream processing platform that's fully scalable, reliable, and secure. Built by the creators of Apache Kafka, we help companies build real-time data pipelines and integrate data streams from all sources into a single, central event processing system. Unify and empower real-time data across cloud, on-prem, multi-cloud, and serverless. Free trial, free plan, and 24/7 support.
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Reviews of Confluent Platform
An amazing enterprise platform for Kafka!
Pros:
Confluent Platform wraps Apache Kafka in a platform that is enterprise friendly, since it provides tools that make life with Kafka a little better - like KSQLDB for streaming and modifying data, Schema Registry, and others
Cons:
The deployment on K8s was not easy to do, I didn't find a clear K8s deployment guide. Same goes for OpenShift.
Rich set of tools
Pros:
For my work, it was reliable for data ingestion and processing. And it has a lot of tools and APIs for developing and testing.
Cons:
It requires a little bit of experience and knowledge to manage the platform.
What free trial? Confluent rip off
Comments: Confluent is easy to onboard. During the free trial we soon realised it wasnt suitable for us so we moved to self-hosted kafka. We tried to close the Confluent account. There is no simple way to do this in Confluent. We couldnt remove the payment details which you have to enter when signing up for the free trial. There is no easy way to contact support from within the GUI. Then today out of nowhere we get a bill for over $1000. I emailed Confluent's Global Technical Support who replied promptly that they would issue a refund but it would take several days. Still no mention of removing the payment details and closing the account.
Pros:
Easy to deploy. some functionality. pretty gui
Cons:
No way to remove your payment details or close your account from within the GUI. No warning after 'free trial' that the account is still active. no way to export invoices. lacking integrations and key features.
Great for Storing Learning Materials
Pros:
The features that have really helped me and my teams are the ability to create pages dedicated to best practices and learnings. We've created multiple pages across our org which have given us a nicely curated repository of information and marketing collateral.
Cons:
The navigation and searching leaves a lot to be desired. Thats the only thing keeping me from giving the software a perfect score.
Confluent is the way for data engineering
Pros:
Data pipeline Dashboard Alerts Analysis tools
Cons:
Should have reporting tool depending on datapoints
