We compared Confluent and Amazon Kinesis based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Based on user reviews, Confluent is praised for its efficient handling of vast amounts of data, seamless integration with various systems, and strong customer support. In contrast, Amazon Kinesis is commended for its real-time data processing capabilities, flexibility in integration with other AWS services, and user-friendly pricing and licensing. Confluent users highlight the need for improved UI and setup simplification, while Amazon Kinesis users suggest better documentation, UI enhancements, and scalability improvements. Ultimately, both platforms have received positive ROI feedback, with users experiencing returns on their investments.
Features: Confluent's valuable features include efficient handling of vast amounts of data, seamless integration with external systems, and comprehensive monitoring and management capabilities. Amazon Kinesis, on the other hand, offers efficient real-time processing of high data volumes, flexible data streaming and processing options, easy integration with AWS services, and availability of various tools and APIs.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Confluent's product has mixed sentiments from users, with some finding it manageable but others finding it complex. In contrast, users have positive feedback about the minimal and straightforward setup cost of Amazon Kinesis product., Confluent's product has received positive feedback for its strong return on investment. On the other hand, Amazon Kinesis offers significant ROI through cost savings, improved data processing efficiency, real-time analytics capabilities, scalability, and elasticity.
Room for Improvement: Confluent can improve its user interface and setup process, as well as provide better documentation. On the other hand, Amazon Kinesis needs enhancements in documentation, user interface, scalability, integrations, error handling, pricing, and customer support.
Deployment and customer support: User feedback on Confluent's tech solution indicates varying durations for deployment, setup, and implementation phases. In contrast, user feedback on Amazon Kinesis shows different timeframes for deployment and setup, emphasizing the need to consider them together or separately., Confluent's customer service is highly regarded for prompt and efficient support, while Amazon Kinesis is praised for outstanding assistance and representatives going above and beyond to address issues.
The summary above is based on 18 interviews we conducted recently with Confluent and Amazon Kinesis users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"I like the ease of use and how we can quickly get the configurations done, making it pretty straightforward and stable."
"Amazon Kinesis also provides us with plenty of flexibility."
"Everything is hosted and simple."
"Amazon Kinesis has improved our ROI."
"I find almost all features valuable, especially the timing and fast pace movement."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a pretty robust way of capturing things."
"From my experience, one of the most valuable features is the ability to track silent events on endpoints. Previously, these events might have gone unnoticed, but now we can access them within the product range. For example, if a customer reports that their calls are not reaching the portal files, we can use this feature to troubleshoot and optimize the system."
"I have worked in companies that build tools in-house. They face scaling challenges."
"The documentation process is fast with the tool."
"The most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"I would rate the scalability of the solution at eight out of ten. We have 20 people who use Confluent in our organization now, and we hope to increase usage in the future."
"We mostly use the solution's message queues and event-driven architecture."
"One of the best features of Confluent is that it's very easy to search and have a live status with Jira."
"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 client APIs are the most valuable feature."
"It is also good for knowledge base management."
"Kinesis can be expensive, especially when dealing with large volumes of data."
"Kinesis Data Analytics needs to be improved somewhat. It's SQL based data but it is not as user friendly as MySQL or Athena tools."
"Snapshot from the the from the the stream of the data analytic I have already on the cloud, do a snapshot to not to make great or to get the data out size of the web service. But to stop the process and restart a few weeks later when I have more data or more available of the client teams."
"There are certain shortcomings in the machine learning capacity offered by the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Amazon Kinesis involved a more complex setup and configuration than Azure Event Hub."
"If there were better documentation on optimal sharding strategies then it would be helpful."
"Could include features that make it easier to scale."
"It would be beneficial if Amazon Kinesis provided document based support on the internet to be able to read the data from the Kinesis site."
"The formatting aspect within the page can be improved and more powerful."
"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."
"There is no local support team in Saudi Arabia."
"In Confluent, there could be a few more VPN options."
"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 room for improvement in the visualization."
"Confluent's price needs improvement."
Amazon Kinesis is ranked 1st in Streaming Analytics with 24 reviews while Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 21 reviews. Amazon Kinesis is rated 8.0, while Confluent is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon Kinesis writes "Used for media streaming and live-streaming data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Confluent writes "Has good technical support services and a valuable feature for real-time data streaming ". Amazon Kinesis is most compared with Azure Stream Analytics, Amazon MSK, Apache Flink, Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Spark Streaming, whereas Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Databricks, AWS Glue, Oracle GoldenGate and Fivetran. See our Amazon Kinesis vs. Confluent report.
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