We performed a comparison between Confluent and Matillion ETL 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 feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"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 most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"The monitoring module is impressive."
"Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."
"We mostly use the solution's message queues and event-driven architecture."
"Kafka Connect framework is valuable for connecting to the various source systems where code doesn't need to be written."
"The design of the product is extremely well built and it is highly configurable."
"It is pretty user-friendly, even for people who aren't super technical."
"It can scale to a great extent. It can handle the load that we are putting on it, which is about 5TBs."
"Matillion ETL helps manage data movement, ingestion, and transformation through pipelines."
"It has good integrations with Amazon Redshift and other AWS services."
"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the UI experience in which you can drag and drop most of the transformation."
"It has helped us to get onto the cloud quickly."
"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is its user-friendly graphical interface."
"It takes less than five minutes to set up and delivers results. It is much quicker than traditional ETL technologies."
"It would help if the knowledge based documents in the support portal could be available for public use as well."
"Confluent's price needs improvement."
"There is no local support team in Saudi Arabia."
"there is room for improvement in the visualization."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"The formatting aspect within the page can be improved and more powerful."
"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."
"The tool's lineage is very weak."
"Our main challenge currently is that Matillion runs on an EC2 instance, limiting us to running only two processes simultaneously at the entry level."
"One of the features that's in development is data privacy in the cloud, along with further SAP integration. For connectivity to SAP systems."
"I found some of the more complex aspects of ETL challenging, but I grasped the concepts fairly quickly."
"It can have multi-environment support. We should be able to deploy it in different environments. Its integration with SAP connection is not so nice, which should be improved. It can also support an on-prem database."
"Unlike Snowflake which automatically takes care of upgrading to the latest version and includes additional features, with Matillion ETL we need to do this ourselves."
"There are certain functions that are available in other ETL tools which are still not present in Matillion ETL. It would be good to have more features."
"To complete the pipeline, they might want to include some connectors which would put the data into different platforms. This would be helpful."
Confluent is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 19 reviews while Matillion ETL is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Integration with 24 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Matillion ETL is rated 8.6. 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 Matillion ETL writes "Efficient data integration and transformation with seamless cloud-native integration". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Matillion ETL is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and SSIS. See our Confluent vs. Matillion ETL report.
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