We performed a comparison between Apache Pulsar and Confluent based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Confluent and others in Streaming Analytics."The solution operates as a classic message broker but also as a streaming platform."
"The design of the product is extremely well built and it is highly configurable."
"Confluence's greatest asset is its user-friendly interface, coupled with its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with a vast range of other solutions."
"A person with a good IT background and HTML will not have any trouble with Confluent."
"The documentation process is fast with the tool."
"The most valuable feature that we are using is the data replication between the data centers allowing us to configure a disaster recovery or software. However, is it's not mandatory to use and because most of the features that we use are from Apache Kafka, such as end-to-end encryption. Internally, we can develop our own kind of product or service from Apache Kafka."
"The solution can handle a high volume of data because it works and scales well."
"I find Confluent's Kafka Connectors and Kafka Streams invaluable for my use cases because they simplify real-time data processing and ETL tasks by providing reliable, pre-packaged connectors and tools."
"The most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"Documentation is poor because much of it is in Chinese with no English translation."
"In Confluent, there could be a few more VPN options."
"Confluent's price needs improvement."
"It would help if the knowledge based documents in the support portal could be available for public use as well."
"Areas for improvement include implementing multi-storage support to differentiate between database stores based on data age and optimizing storage costs."
"It could have more integration with different platforms."
"There is a limitation when it comes to seamlessly importing Microsoft documents into Confluent pages, which can be inconvenient for users who frequently work with Microsoft Office tools and need to transition their content to Confluent."
"There is no local support team in Saudi Arabia."
"Confluence could improve the server version of the solution. However, most companies are going to the cloud."
Apache Pulsar is ranked 12th in Streaming Analytics with 1 review while Confluent is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 19 reviews. Apache Pulsar is rated 8.0, while Confluent is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apache Pulsar writes "The solution can mimic other APIs without changing a line of code". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Confluent writes "Has good technical support services and a valuable feature for real-time data streaming ". Apache Pulsar is most compared with Apache Flink, Apache Spark Streaming, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon MSK and Azure Stream Analytics, whereas Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle GoldenGate.
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