Confluent Reviews & Product Details

I really liked how Confluent simplified working with Kafka and Flink through managed cloud services like Azure. The simple UI and wide range of connectors make real-time data integration effortless to me. Another highlight is the scalability and reliability while working on massive data streams. The schema registry and also KSQLDB make stream processing and governance much better and fluent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing will shoot up as your data volume grows up. Some features are only available in Enterprise edition. Also one must spend lot of time to understand the whole workflow. Quite a bit steep learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It saves a lot of developer time and helps in productivity.It provides a unified platform for building and running real-time data pipelines, applications, and microservices and also it provides wide range of features to enterprise edition so it a good choice for companies that need a reliable and scalable platform for managing their real-time data.It is very easy to integrate with all the softwares because of this the usage had increased drastically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

some of the confluent documets are outdated so it gets difficult to follow so we need to search for those doubts and follow staskoverflow to get those resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent has great documentation and developer advocacy resources. I learned Kafka and Kafka Streams almost exclusively using Confluent resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I did not use Confluent tooling deeply or long enough to find downsides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Confluent has enhanced Kafka infrastructure management features in the last year.

2.The platform serves as a unified solution for real-time data pipelines, applications, and microservices.Offers a wide range of features in the enterprise edition for reliable and scalable real-time data management.

3. Easy integration with various software solutions, contributing to a significant increase in usage. Schema Registry exports, Prometheus monitoring tools are Valuable .Impressive API integrations and support for Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) through Terraform.

4. Confluent's support has proven to be time-saving and enhances developer productivity.

Key highlights: reliable Kafka clusters, schema registry for message reliability, user-friendly web interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. The web interface lacks some features present in APIs and the shell.

2.Schema exporter is not fully supported in Terraform.

3.Some Confluent documents are outdated, requiring external searches and Stack Overflow for issue resolution.Documentation, especially on deployment, is not up to par and is not beginner-friendly.

4. The overall learning curve is high, requiring knowledge of Kafka, connectors, and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent has, in the last year, released a lot of additional features that make it simpler to manage the Confluent Kafka infrastructure. My organization manages its infrastructure through Terraform, so having a Terraform provider is a big requirement for us. In addition, Confluent also provides a lot of tooling that is consistently useful (Schema Registry exports, Prometheus monitoring tools, etc).

In addition to this, their support has been useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some minor growing pains related to building out the managed Kafka infrastructure at Confluent. As a result, we've had to spend a considerable amount of effort rectifying initial account design decisions that we later found out were incorrect.

To be fair, if we had started using Confluent today, we wouldn't have run into these issues. It's clear that Confluent has made significant leaps since we first started using them 2 years ago. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Reliable kafka clusters

- Usage of schema registry for message reliability

- Fantastic UX on the web interface

- Amazing integrations with APIs

- Support for Terraform for IaaC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The web interface does not have all the features implemented of the APIs and the shell

- Schema exporter is not fully supported in Terraform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Kafka topics, it is possible to easily set up a pub/sub pattern and provide producers and consumers with complete end-to-end visibility using Confluent Center. Simple to scale through the addition of brokers and "no downtime" software update/patch deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent has nothing that I don't like. Instead, they are focusing on improving the data flow from the CDC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent made our event processing butter smooth. Millions of events fired and all got processed without breaking any sweat. Installation, configuration & integrations with relational database was cherry on top. As an administrator and developer, the documentation was so easy and relatable that we actually spend less time than we anticipated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of third party learning resource and community support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent is fully managed event streaming flatform. Maintainance of Kafka clusters, partitions, connectors is very tideous task. Confluent makes it very easy in overall maintainance and deployment of the real time analytics platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The overall learning curve of the platform is very high. As a individual I had to know about basics of lot of topics Kafka, connectors, security. Their documentation is not upto the mark especially on deployment and is not beginner friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Confluent UI/Control Center: We can easily access all confluent platform components from here. This is very useful when it comes to monitor streaming data.

2. Schema Registry: We can easily check the schemas associated with different topics even we can check the previous versions also. This is possible through rest call also but confluent put everything together to make developers or administrators life easier.

3. KSQLDB/KSQL: KSQLDB is also a confluent offering, we are using it to modify streaming data or applying filters.

4. Connectors: Confluent comes with connectors idea that helps developers to reduce time and efforts to write kafka stream applications from scratch. We can just use production ready source or sink connectors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent documentation needs improvement. Sometimes it is very difficult to find out how to meet specific use case. They shpuld create some videos or detailed documents. Other than that everything is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.