We performed a comparison between Confluent and Elastic Search based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"It is also good for knowledge base management."
"The solution can handle a high volume of data because it works and scales well."
"The monitoring module is impressive."
"One of the best features of Confluent is that it's very easy to search and have a live status with Jira."
"With Confluent Cloud we no longer need to handle the infrastructure and the plumbing, which is a concern for Confluent. The other advantage is that all portfolios have access to the data that is being shared."
"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."
"Confluence's greatest asset is its user-friendly interface, coupled with its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with a vast range of other solutions."
"The forced merge and forced resonate features reduce the data size increasing reliability."
"The initial setup is very easy for small environments."
"The products comes with REST APIs."
"The special text processing features in this solution are very important for me."
"It provides deep visibility into your cloud and distributed applications, from microservices to serverless architectures. It quickly identifies and resolves the root causes of issues, like gaining visibility into all the cloud-based and on-prem applications."
"The solution is valuable for log analytics."
"It is stable."
"Helps us to store the data in key value pairs and, based on that, we can produce visualisations in Kibana."
"Currently, in the early stages, I see a gap on the security side. If you are using the SaaS version, we would like to get a fuller, more secure solution that can be adopted right out of the box. Confluence could do a better job sharing best practices or a reusable pattern that others have used, especially for companies that can not afford to hire professional services from Confluent."
"The formatting aspect within the page can be improved and more powerful."
"It could have more integration with different platforms."
"The product should integrate tools for incorporating diagrams like Lucidchart. It also needs to improve its formatting features. We also faced issues while granting permissions."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"there is room for improvement in the visualization."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"We'd like to see more integration in the future, especially around service desks or other ITSM tools."
"It should be easier to use. It has been getting better because many functions are pre-defined, but it still needs improvement."
"There are challenges with performance management and scalability."
"It is hard to learn and understand because it is a very big platform. This is the main reason why we still have nothing in production. We have to learn some things before we get there."
"Improving machine learning capabilities would be beneficial."
"This product could be improved with additional security, and the addition of support for machine learning devices."
"Could have more open source tools and testing."
"Both the graph feature and the reporting feature are a little bit lacking. The alerting also needs to be improved."
Confluent is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 19 reviews while Elastic Search is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Integration with 59 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Elastic Search is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Confluent writes "Has good technical support services and a valuable feature for real-time data streaming ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Azure Search, Pinecone and Amazon Kendra. See our Confluent vs. Elastic Search report.
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