We performed a comparison between Confluent and Mule Anypoint Platform 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 monitoring module is impressive."
"The documentation process is fast with the tool."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"The solution's market place for different kinds of integration platforms is the most valuable feature."
"We are very satisfied with the DevOps support."
"Whenever we need some support in our local language, we get it easily. They also have an office in Germany and if a person is unable to contact them by phone, they can go to the office in person."
"This is the easiest and best tool available."
"It has improved our organization a lot because of the increase in productivity, and it has simplified the development of products. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a highly effective tool where you can build integrations so effectively. If you establish the integration platform, it increases productivity. It helps us to do effective re-authentication, and it speeds the integration."
"The most valuable feature is the variety of characters Anypoint Platform has. It is very scalable and customizable."
"It is a stable product...The initial setup was simple."
"The most valuable feature of Mule Anypoint Platform is rapid development."
"Areas for improvement include implementing multi-storage support to differentiate between database stores based on data age and optimizing storage costs."
"there is room for improvement in the visualization."
"It could be improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"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."
"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."
"Mule Anypoint Platform could improve by having better integration with MDM. There are challenges when doing the interaction at this time."
"The solution's pricing model is very strange, and it will be really expensive if you use APIs a lot."
"The runtime management and connectors could use some work and are vulnerable to breakage after upgrades."
"The solution is very expensive. They need to work on the pricing."
"Its documentation needed a little bit of work to make it more usable. It is a platform that is used mainly by developers and other people for connecting systems. Its documentation was confusing in some areas and was not very helpful in other areas. I had to go to a consultant to get some work done, which ideally shouldn't be required."
"The stability could be better."
"I would like to see some data integration and automation."
"Pricing is one aspect of the solution that is troublesome. It's too expensive for smaller organizations."
Confluent is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 19 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 39 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Mule Anypoint Platform 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 Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and IBM Streams, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and SAP Process Orchestration. See our Confluent vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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