--- title: Confluent Reviews meta_title: 'Confluent Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 114 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Confluent works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 114 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Big Data url: https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data --- # Confluent Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Event Stream Processing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/event-stream-processing) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 114 ## About Confluent Cloud-native service for data in motion built by the original creators of Apache Kafka® Today’s consumers have the world at their fingertips and hold an unforgiving expectation for end-to-end real-time brand experiences. Data in motion is the underlying, fundamental ingredient to any truly connected customer experience. It provides a continuous supply of real- time event streams coupled with real-time stream processing to power the data-driven backend operations and rich front-end experiences necessary for any business to succeed within today’s competitive, consumer-driven markets. Set your data in motion while avoiding the headaches of infrastructure management and focus on what matters most: your business. Built by the original creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native service for connecting and processing all of your real-time data, everywhere it’s needed. ## Confluent Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **simplicity and scalability** of Confluent's cloud services, enhancing their experience with Kafka and Flink. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **effortless real-time data integration** through Confluent's managed cloud services, enhancing their workflow significantly. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **wide range of connectors** in Confluent, simplifying real-time data integration and enhancing productivity. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **simplified real-time data integration** with Confluent, benefiting from its managed cloud services and wide connectors. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Confluent, making data integration and stream processing effortless and efficient. (1 reviews) - Easy Integrations (1 reviews) - Efficiency (1 reviews) - Features (1 reviews) - Integrations (1 reviews) - Real-time Data (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note that the **cost estimation can be high** as data volume increases, requiring time to learn the system. (1 reviews) - Users find Confluent to be **expensive** as costs rise with data volume and features are limited in lower editions. (1 reviews) - Users face a **steep learning curve** with Confluent, alongside rising costs as data volume increases. (1 reviews) - Users find a **lack of features** in Confluent, especially with essential tools restricted to the Enterprise edition. (1 reviews) - Users find the **steep learning curve** challenging, requiring significant time to grasp Confluent's workflow and features. (1 reviews) - Learning Difficulty (1 reviews) - Limited Features (1 reviews) - Resource Intensive Learning (1 reviews) - Steep Learning Curve (1 reviews) ## Confluent Reviews ### 1. So far so good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rok . | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Confluent?** No need to self manage kafka clusters and kafka connect connectors. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** No option to whitelist IP addresses with access to kafka cluster **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** A way to connect micro services with each other, message processing. Really useful that we can have multiple consumers processing same events. ### 2. Work with Kafka topics and ksqlDB **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Individual & Family Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Confluent?** ksqlDB provides an excellent instrument to create ETL processes for enriching the data **What do you dislike about Confluent?** There are a lot of restrictions in ksqlDB and I don't see any improvements in this direction. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create ETL for enriching data in realtime streaming ### 3. Review of confluent **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Confluent?** It's a straightforward way of interacting with the Kafka ecosystem **What do you dislike about Confluent?** The UI is very hard to use, and the documentation is out of sync **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's providing a wrapper and managed solution for using Kafka ### 4. Truly Serverless workloads with fully managed Kafka **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srikanth A. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Managing the Kafka and maintaining the underline infra is not an issue anymore, No more issues that are on our heads with proper Fault Tolerant Brokers and Kafka-Connect with Fully manged setup is really good. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** I did not find much of cons here, Its an amazing fully managed Service **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Less headaches with no more monitoring and no more additional human monitoring involved in managing the Kafka Cluster underline infra i.e Broker, and what fascinated me the most is the Fully Managed KafkaConnect with Confluent itself, with this our Event driven Architecture is much more simpler and very much error prone w.r.t to Operations. ### 5. Confluent Kafka has very much user friendly interface for viewing a topic's data and meta data. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammed Inteqab A. | Cloud Data Engineer - Spark, Scala, Kafka, Azure, AWS, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Confluent?** GUI interface, SQL interaction, meta data showcase, topic information **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Not much i can think of, yet can be improved in the performance side **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used the confluent Kafka product. Yeah was useful ### 6. Confluent offers an easy to use interface for managing and operating Kafka Clusters. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** The user interface provides a seamless experience and has lots of rich features and built-in tools to help you debug. I also like the Free tier clusters. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** The user interface can become laggy when dealing with lots of environments and clusters in the same tenant. It could be improved by providing a more resilient user interface that does not slow down when rendering large amounts of data. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Confluent is solving our managed serverless problem. We do not want to self-manage our own infrastructure for hosting Kafka/serverless events. Instead, we use Confluent to focus on development instead of operations and maintenance. ### 7. Feature-rich cloud service with a wonderful support team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David F. | Senior Software Engineer II, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** I should start off by clarifying that my company has not, at this time, moved forward with Confluent. That has to do with the direction our platform is taking, rather than the capabilities/quality of the Confluent solution. As we built a proof of concept with Confluent Cloud, it was very clear that it is feature-rich and very user-friendly. They are actively building a Terraform provider which will allow us to do even more IaC configuration, rather than manually or with deployment scripts. All that said, I think the place where Confluent shined the most was with regards to the contacts with whom we worked throughout our process. They proactively reached out to us to provide helpful resources/articles/videos, and got on calls with us to discuss implementation solutions and to better understand our needs. There was no pressure for us to sign a contract or move forward with any sales process. Their goal was purely to make themselves available to us so we could build the best possible solution and follow best practices and design standards around the Kafka ecosystem. Confluent Cloud also offers a lot of wonderful out-of-the-box connectors to systems like SQS, Lambda, etc. It saves you from writing a lot of boilerplate code. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Honestly, this is a tough one to answer because my experience was so overwhelmingly positive. Though I've worked in eventually consistent and event-sourced systems before, I am a Kafka newbie. So, there is a pretty steep learning curve around it. While I do think that Confluent Cloud offered some great resources and tutorials, I wish they could go a step further with demonstrations of how to integrate Kafka with your software, with real-world examples of what the consuming/producing code might look like and how that would fit into your larger application. Also, I was struggling to understand how multiple message producers could write messages with optimistic concurrency, a la EventStoreDb. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** Give it a shot. You can get an evaluation coupon code upon signup that allows you to play around with Confluent Cloud and try it for yourself. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems we were looking to solve were to have an immutable ledger that serves as the source of truth for all changes to the system. I also want a system that leverages eventual consistency to help create loose coupling between services and to have a higher system resiliency/disaster recovery. Some benefits I realized from Kafka/Confluent Cloud specifically are the power of KSQL, which essentially serves as an abstraction from a lot of the producer/consumer code you'd otherwise have to write in your application logic. It's incredibly powerful,and is drastically simpler to write than lambda/worker logic that you'd otherwise need to create. ### 8. Best service of Kafka on cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Easy to use and easy to deploy. And also easy to learn. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** They should include more tutorial on website. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is best solution for Stream processing and message queue ### 9. Confluent is a great platform, easy and fast up with speed **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Making your data available in a modern, flexible and easy scalable solution. I like all connectors avilable and security features now and coming. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** A guidance of how to get up and running with confluent as code. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** Compare your internal knowledge in event programming, usage of connectors can be more costly and might need dedicated clustering. However if you have a single cloud environment it will be effective and easy to use. You will be up and running with your first cluster in no time. But remember to do your homework with a good event architecture and document your events in schemas, it will give you lots of benefits in the long run. I have used both opensource Apache Kafka and confluent cloud. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration between our applications on different platforms and also making AI run as near as possible in realtime. These integrations makes us more productive and we have also been able to benefit from our events several times in new use cases. ### 10. Easiest way to get up running a fully featured kafka cluster **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** It requires just a few clicks to start a cluster. The documentation is very good. The support is reactive. It works exactly like a native kafka cluster expect it's fully managed so you don't have to maintain it and can concentrate on your application development. The sales team is also very nice. We were able to sign a contract that satisfy both of us to allow to grow on a multi-year basis. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** You have to be very careful with the pricing. Even if you don't send any data, you have to pay for the number of partitions you have. The price can go up quickly for just a few hundred partitions. The control center UI to visualize topic contents is not really good. You should consider using alternatives like Kowl which is much more performant and has a better UX. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Several things : - We are streaming transactional changes between microservices applications (CDC using debezium) - We are processing IOT Data - We are processing and enriching data to integrate our applications with thirs parties ### 11. Easiest path to production Kafka **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** We had a working Kafka cluster in minutes that was easy to experiment with and run various load testing scenarios. When we switched to a production load it was just as simple. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** We had some configuration issues early because of signup on their site directly vs through the cloud marketplace, eventually got it sorted - but was a hassle. Depending on your architecture and usage price can be fairly high. So far we are happy with overall cost vs managing our own. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a reliable messaging infrastructure with: easy polyglot support, reliable replay, batched message handling, automated scaling, and downstream integrations (connectors). Confluent delivers it all with a slick ops UI. For fully managed Kafka, we don't see any competitor that comes close to Confluent. ### 12. Good managed Kafka Cluster, a bit expensive however for connect and ksqldb **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas E. | Lead Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Managed Kafka cluster, confluent API, Great documentation and community **What do you dislike about Confluent?** The cost is a bit prohibitive for the pay per use cluster since ksqldb creates so many internal topics (changelogs, repartitions) and the pricing for managed ksqldb is very constraining, and UDFs are not supported. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Event driven microservices, stream processing pipelines, redefining our architecture where Kafka is the single source of truth. Productivity is not yet there yet since there is a certain learning curve and paradigm shift for developers on our team not yet acquired. ### 13. Reliable Cloud Kafka **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kieran M. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** We don't have to maintain our Kafka brokers. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Pricing by partition & It would be great to be able to assign more granular permissions to users. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** Consider your architecture requirements carefully - don't over-engineer. Use SaaS where appropriate for your organisation. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supporting our Event Driven Architecture. ### 14. Best Streaming Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manu C. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Kafka topics store more data in comparison to Kinesis service provided by AWS. This gives more flexibility to handle large amount of data for our processing purposes. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Managed service provides a better environment for our development and other purposes. It gives a plug and play feature to work with however when we talk about Kafka, we need to set up various things on our own which makes it a little complex in comparison to any managed service. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Kafka to have the near real time ingestion data pipeline. It allows us to move the data as and when the data arrives in the staging layer which we later pick up to create any KPIs or KRIs. ### 15. Confluent: a great platform for asynchronous communication and data processing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** I really like the Apache Kafka broker, the Avro serialization that is well integrated with the confluent schema registry. The schema registry can spot potential bugs related to malformed data. I'm using a lot also the Connect framework, allowing to integrate many existing systems without the need to write new code. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** I think that it should be more evident the difference between the open-source Apache Kafka echosystem and the confluent platform. The difference between the two should be more transparent in what is possible to do or not to do without paying a confluent license. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Confluent allows me to integrate complex systems togheter. It solves the asynchronous communication, backpressure among slow systems, and reprocessing of data pipelines. ### 16. Simplicity at its Best **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** I find it an excellent platform to have Managed Kafka, and the flexibility it offers is amazing. I liked the part of not managing the brokers and zookeepers and maintaining good abstraction while maintaining security features and separation of workloads with different clusters within a single environment. I find it better than others when coming to support, you will potentially get more realistic answers than other cloud-provided managed Kafka. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Not many cons. confluent UI could be improved a bit more and ccloud CLI should also offer much more options as in Kafka CLI. Should offer & expose some APIs to monitor the clusters and metrics. Should offer IaC(terraform) could be game-changing. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** No more downtimes have been observed when compared to self-managed systems. Support from Confluent for the issues which cannot be easily solved by engineers. Our clients business definitely improved ### 17. Confulent review in nanobebe **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Easy to use and navigate, UI looks good and works well, can't see Avro messages **What do you dislike about Confluent?** a bit hard to get logs and good observability. I Think confluent should notify users when outage notify users via emails when they happen **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** IOT Telemetry Bulk inserts, easy to use and no maintece requried ### 18. Best Streaming Platform on the cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dilip k. | Senior Cloud and Devops Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Easiest to set up and get the work done using the documentation provided. Excellent customer support and will easily understand the concepts so quickly and can create a significant impact in the businesses. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** There is room for a lot of improvement, and there is a need to introduce a lot of features to enhance the product and to match the product. Compared to others in the current market, It is getting its edge in the requirements. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data streaming service on the cloud and excellent documentation provided to understand the working easily and help the projects reduce time. Ideal usage will give your project a great time saving and significant cost-saving indeed. ### 19. Overall best but few shortcomings **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aishwarya G. | Assistant Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Compared to AWS kinesis, it does not have any message limits and highly customized and scalable streaming technology. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** It is lacking in terms of managed service and detailed information regarding the message delivery. There could be major enhancements in terms of enterprise support that we can use in AWS kinesis. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using this software in a few of the POCs where we are streaming data from MS SQL server (operational data store) to Oracle server(for analytics) using pyspark and confluent kafka through hive tables. This is being done using Oracle CDC connector to implement DWH requirements. ### 20. Great Streaming technology compared to Kinesis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aakash A. | Technical Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** We have the freedom of limits like kinesis we are bound. In my opinion, kinesis is very good technology in the market. Great connectivity with other data sources. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** The only suggestion is, please have two versions, one is the existing one which confluent cloud is and launch the second one which is fully managed. This will greatly help the newbies in kafka environment **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** NA **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating the data pipelines from mysql to hive, hive then ingesting the data into kafka in serialization format i.e., Avro. At consumer side, we have a kafka connector (JDBC CDC connector) to load to mysql server ### 21. Overall Excellent Streaming Platform but need minor enhancements **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aakash A. | Technical Lead at Paytm, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** The ability to scale up to any extent depending on the available commodity hardware in the organization. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Nothing as such. For a person who is beginner in streaming systems, it is quite difficult to learn. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our organization has a very large data volume that generates daily. This is payments-related data which is served for multiple reporting systems for insight. Confluent caters our need for the same. ### 22. Confluent for all the business streaming applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai K. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Confluent kafka is best ever streaming platform exists till date and it has been upgrading the feature with most advance connectivity with very minimal of efforts. Kafka is best ever tool found till date **What do you dislike about Confluent?** As it is a demanding software, for the beginners to learn and explore it would need extra efforts to learn. The logs finding is not that easy to find for any sort of error. It would need much of improvements. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** Definitely would recommend use of this for any streaming application user for the low latency and data loss between producer and consumer **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** End to end data support from Producer to consumer with the speed data transfer and multi connection without being configured individually. The data avaio can be set as per the requirements and it can have many options like redundency using replicas, ### 23. Kafka if very hard to manage and professional help in this area is pretty week **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Some of the visualization tools provided by the Confluent are very helpful **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Troubleshooting is very hard, the management is very expensive **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** metrics gathering form various sources ### 24. Confluent- Solving streaming problems **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hardik G. | Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Kstreams from confluent are the most helpful to me **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Problematic in case of higher workloads and requests **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** Check whether your client is ready to pay a cost or is happy in open source **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streaming problems and use cases. It can be integrated along with kafka so a good fit. ### 25. Hi there am using confluent more then a year it is really nice and using confluent is very easy. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** The most like thing is it is very easy to use and it has Zero loss of data & its replication. By using a connector you can dump your data in any database **What do you dislike about Confluent?** In my view, there is nothing missing in this product it is quite good in itself. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it in Big data analytics, Streming data, and for other use ### 26. Scalability Of Java/Spring/Kotlin Function In One GCP Browser Session Through Confluent In A Region **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anshuman M. | of Junior Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Its flexibility in populating 1 function **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Not compatible for each browser sessions **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Atomic Web Application ### 27. Cool Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Easy to use, Onboarding the application is simple, good documentation about the functionality available in the tool. Out of the box, monitoring is available and APIs are available as well **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Few of the connectors are still need to have better logging and monitoring, some of the connectors are not available on the confluent cloud as fully managed connectors **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Event-Driven Architecture, Microservices. benefits are horizontal scaling, easy configuration for the expanding if needed and easy to on-board new system and use of connectors ### 28. Confluent is good for real time data streaming with settings like retention time,segment time. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** The topic feature in which we can produce and consume data and the partition part I liked the most.The throughout is high and latency is less. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Nothing.Only I faced an issue where there was a lag of messages to be consumed. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** You can consider confluent if you require a large amount of data needed to be streamed efficiently with alot of settings. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working on storing and sending data for my client at my organization.The throughout and performance of confluent is high. ### 29. Confluent Platform and Cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Easy to deploy cloud cluster, a wide range of connectors supported, Ksql, platform over K8S **What do you dislike about Confluent?** High cost of the minimal configuration, so not cost-effective for low scale. Lack of private links backward the customer environments. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise-level event-driven communication. Scale, features, and reliability. ### 30. Confluent for Ktables **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Megha B. | Assistant Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Ktables from Confluent kafka streams is effectiv **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Pricing model for confluent kafka and its products **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** Look at the problem at hand and know the knitty-gritties of using this product **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use cases such as those related to real time streaming ### 31. Effective Confluent products **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hardik G. | Technical Data Engineering Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Confluent Kafka, Schema Registry, Streams **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Apache Kafka is more popular and more handy among everybody. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** Choose the right fitment according to your business needs **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** POC related use cases where we feel we need more than just Apache Kafka ### 32. Conflu **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Ksql and kafka connect, and the managed kafka. On top of that the schema registry that conflu. Provide to support avro is great help............................. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** I think some lower level api should be exposed in your services. If someone wants to tune in **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** If you don't want the overhead of managing the services, go dor confluent **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was tryint to build a click stream analytics products. Also using kafka connecr for my EL ### 33. Confluent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Commercial Real Estate | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Ease of use, the ui is easy to understand and makes navigation easy. Kafka in general is super complex, have a dedicated broker is great. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Querying is awful. Query by partition is about the only thing that ever works for me, and it really isn't fast **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managed kafka is perfect. Not having to deal with a lot of the hassle of hosting and maintaining infra is great. ### 34. Very easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madushan D. | Associate Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Very easy to handle hung amount of data. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Sometimes Kafka Connectors get hung state **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm handling big data. Very easy to handle large data sets ### 35. Using Confluent for data streaming on banking project **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Easy to use, just download and start configure. Helpfull control panel via browser. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** The control panel view on browser sometimes doesn't sync realtime. Documentation about troubleshoot configuration is still limitless. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project data stream can be reached by confluent platform. ### 36. I worked with confluent connect mostly.. it was very user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** I worked with confluent connect mostly.. it was very user friendly **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Replies for forum questions should be replied faster. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was developing customized kafka connectors which was very easy by use of distributed framework ### 37. Great product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Technology fallows cloud native standards. It is well documented and easy to kick-start **What do you dislike about Confluent?** I would appreciate kafka streams equipment for other languages like python or go. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for building scalable data platform. ### 38. Very pleased with their products **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Documentation is good. Products are useful. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Paid products too expensive. Nothing other missing. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microservices communication. Data pipelines. ### 39. Good Kafka resource, kind of expensive. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Their learning resources are great, but it all leads to buying Confluent for Kafka. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** But we're good engineers here. Do we really need to buy into all of it? **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to get a changelog as a source of truth. Basically, what Ben Stopford calls turning the database inside out. But for now, I think we can do it ourselves. ### 40. Work experience with confluent platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shekhar P. | Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** The best things of the confluent platform to use Apache Kafka is connectors. They provide a lot of connectors which we can use in our project without writing any single lines of code. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Documentation is not up to date and some times missed lot of concepts about connectors. I faced a lot of issues because no proper documentation and always has to ask in stack overflow or some other way to get rid of those missed concepts. But except of these things, confluent platform is awesome. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** Yes, I recommend the Confluent platform because it's easy to use and along with they support lot of different companies through connectors. The confluent platform provides easy to use to other data streaming platform which is best in the market still. So I recommend using at least once time to get features of this. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Streaming data from multiple sources to different sources. 2. Data analytics 3. Kafka to Apache Spark data streaming for machine learning. ### 41. Fast, resilient and reliable streaming platform for enterprises **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Ease of use. Very highly available and support for enterprises. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Still a tight integration with zookeeper. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** Ensure you have fully defined use case. Confluent is not for all purposes. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data streaming from on prem to cloud. Use for multi-cloud strategy for data movement ### 42. Best Kafka vendor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sivamohan N. | Kafka Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Kafka as a product confluent provides the best cloud service, regular updates, multi-region clusters, auto data balancer. It has connectors where we can integrate multiple technologies. Better monitoring for Kafka cluster and topic statistics. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** There is no auto client failover on the multi-regional cluster, lack of server-level metric, the product should be cover its complete server resources monitoring. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** Confluent is the one for the dedicated vendor, as we know that no one has an as far vision on kafka except Confluent. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consumer off-set management with confluent replicator we can sync offset over the cluster, also with auto data balancer partitions reassignment process is much easier. Kubernetes support. ### 43. Confluent highly recommended **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David L. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** More services, more features, more data instrumentation, use Confluent Platform is highly recommended because it is extremely valuable to have access to experts who know the most features about Apache kafka **What do you dislike about Confluent?** It's a complicated technology at first sight **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** More services, more features, more data instrumentation **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** More features, more data instrumentation. Topics console very good ### 44. Absolute must for Kafka developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek M. | Senior System Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Confluent Kafka Clients are the most easy to setup and with detailed documentation. You are almost certain to find the solution to the issues you would be facing while implementation through Confluent website. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** The pricing of Confluent for managing Kafka is pretty high and it could be made better to include smaller organisations. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Confluent Kafka clients extensively using Confluent hub to manage the data flow in and out of Apache Kafka to DBs, S3 etc. ### 45. Streaming platform for enterprises **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raghuram G. | Lead Software Engineer Internship, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Ease to use Kafka, Kafka can be bit tough to start both from infra as well as programmatically. confluent makes it easier to manage a kafka cluster. They help in deployment strategies. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Some of their methods especially regarding avro conversions are still not in the framework.The framework can have much easier DSLs. Sometimes the testing part with the current framework is very hard. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** A steady streaming platform for doing click stream analytics and for setting infrastructure confluent support comes handy. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use Kafka for click stream analytics and in real time we are able to reach out to the customer. Without Kafka its almost impossible to solve this problem in real time. ### 46. Good customer support and easy to use software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian U. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** Ability to quickly setup pub/sub pattern through Kafka topics and have full visibility end-to-end for producers and consumers through Confluent center. Easy to scale by adding brokers and "no downtime" deployments of software updates/patches. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** Not much to dislike at now. There are certain software features including those around RBAC which are currently immature, but these things are a part of the upcoming roadmap and expected to be fully implemented in 2020. **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** For larger organizations that can have restrictions around software installs and an important security presence, confirm to induce these items to the table from the beginning. Confluent provides many ways to put in their software from Ansible scripts to Operator, and manual TAR installs. make sure you've got everything necessary in situ before your on-site engagement to the best profit of the Confluent resources and not waste any time on internal blockers/house-keeping. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** With confluent, we have been able to improve business process outcomes and reduce time to market our products ### 47. Confluent Kafka SAAS at its best **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** I used Confluent Kafka for one of my product, I recommended using confluent Kafka for my next project ahead of Heroku's Kafka and AWS MSK. It won't charge per broker as AWS does. Nice GUI, Lot of connectors that make it easy for anyone to use this feature.Using Kafka-Connect API is very painful. Confluent makes use of AWS and GCP and Azure and makes Kafka better and easy. I felt AWS MSK is very high in pricing and tough to set. For Interacting with MSK cluster, we also need proxy where in confluent we don't need. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** I had found some bugs regarding consuming the messages in portal **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Self Managed Kafka Clusters is a huge problem everywhere, Confluent Kafka solves it better than the big guys(AWS, Azure, GCP) ### 48. Confluent Kafka for big data CDC **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash K. | Solution Delivery Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** It plays major role in B2B data supply to warehouse in real time . The CDC capability along with Avro helps in supporting real time big data cdc changes into warehouse . **What do you dislike about Confluent?** I don't dislike anything in confluent. Rather they are working on optimization of CDC flow of data. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working on supply chain data and will work on other B2B also. The setting up of platform on cloud , Kafka is helping in data quality analysis. ### 49. A very powerful and robust platform for all your data engineering needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushant G. | Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** The wide range of data streaming solutions with great support **What do you dislike about Confluent?** The community of confluent users in not very active on different technical forums, I hope people will start posting tips and solutions soon **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** One should go for confluent for the most flexible solutions **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved the data management and pipelining problem for a fortune 100 telecom company based out of the US in multiple telemetry and IoT projects. The intensity of data was quite high ### 50. is a self-managed tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Venkaiah M. | Associate Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Confluent?** is a self-managed tool, this means it can be easily operated by anyone, I highly recommend the tool for users just starting out. **What do you dislike about Confluent?** User interface look and feel, also enterprise version licensing cost **Recommendations to others considering Confluent:** is a self-managed tool, this means it can be easily operated by anyone, I highly recommend the tool for users just starting out. **What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** {"type":"object","properties":{"message":{"type":"string"}}} ## Confluent Discussions - [What does Confluent software do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-confluent-software-do) - [What is the difference between Confluent and Kafka?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-confluent-and-kafka) - [Is Confluent SaaS or PaaS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-confluent-saas-or-paas) - [How do you maintain the performance testing of it](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26477-how-do-you-maintain-the-performance-testing-of-it) - 1 upvote - [How do I write a test automation framework using KAFKA streams? like to assert the actual output to the expected output.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/29752-how-do-i-write-a-test-automation-framework-using-kafka-streams-like-to-assert-the-actual-output-to-the-expected-output) - [View Confluent pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/confluent/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-19+02%3A08%3A27+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6c405f2d-2111-41db-b3d8-61a5a2cdad70&secure%5Btoken%5D=3676190fddf3e51a95016422e29b7544b88bb94621da001f150e654831371454&format=llm_user) ## Confluent Features **Data** - Data Processing - Data Sources - Integration - Real-Time Processing **Database** - Real-Time Data Collection - Data Distribution - Data Lake **Data Transformation** - Real-Time Analytics - Data Querying **Analytics** - Reporting & Analytics **Integrations** - Hadoop Integration - Spark Integration **Platform** - Machine Scaling - Data Preparation - Spark Integration **Connectivity** - Hadoop Integration - Spark Integration - Multi-Source Analysis - Data Lake **Processing** - Cloud Processing - Workload Processing **Operations** - Data Visualization - Data Workflow - Governed Discovery **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs **Platform** - Mobile User Support - Customization - User, Role, and Access Management - Internationalization - Sandbox / Test Environments - Performance and Reliability - Breadth of Partner Applications ## Top Confluent Alternatives - [Cloudera](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudera/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (131 reviews) - [Lenses](https://www.g2.com/products/lenses/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (17 reviews) - [Apache Kafka](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kafka/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (127 reviews)