Confluent vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

The compared Confluent and TIBCO solutions aren't in the same category. Confluent is ranked #6 in SA , with an average rating of 7.5, and holds a 6.6% mindshare in the category. TIBCO is ranked #20 in DI , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Confluent users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

TIBCO BusinessWorks

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91% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Confluent and TIBCO BusinessWorks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Streaming Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Confluent

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Streaming Analytics (6th)

TIBCO BusinessWorks

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (20th)

Mindshare comparison

Confluent and TIBCO BusinessWorks aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Confluent is designed for Streaming Analytics and holds a mindshare of 6.6%, down 8.2% compared to last year.
TIBCO BusinessWorks, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 1.0% mindshare, down 1.1% since last year.

Streaming Analytics Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Confluent	6.6%
Apache Flink	8.9%
Databricks	8.1%
Other	76.4%

Streaming Analytics

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
TIBCO BusinessWorks	1.0%
SSIS	3.7%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	3.6%
Other	91.7%

Data Integration

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PavanManepalli

AVP - Sr Middleware Messaging Integration Engineer at Wells Fargo

Has supported streaming use cases across data centers and simplifies fraud analytics with SQL-based processing

I recommend that Confluent should improve its solution to keep up with competitors in the market, such as Solace and other upcoming tools such as NATS. Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about Confluent charging high fees while not offering features that match those of other tools. They need to improve in that direction by not only reducing costs but also providing better solutions for the problems customers face to avoid frustrations, whether through future enhancement requests or ensuring product stability. The cost should be worked on, and they should provide better solutions for customers. Solutions should focus on hierarchical topics; if a customer has different types of data and sources, they should be able to send them to the same place for analytics. Currently, Confluent requires everything to send to the same topic, which becomes very large and makes running analytics difficult. The hierarchy of topics should be improved. This part is available in MQ and other products such as Solace, but it is missing in Confluent, leading many in capital markets and trading to switch to Solace. In terms of stability, it is not the stability itself that needs improvement but rather the delivery semantics. Other products offer exactly-once delivery out of the box, whereas Confluent states it will offer this but lacks the knobs or levers for tuning configurations effectively. Confluent has hundreds of configurations that application teams must understand, which creates a gap. Users are often unaware of what values to set for better performance or to achieve exactly-once semantics, making it difficult to navigate through them. Delivery semantics also need to be worked on.

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Vinod_Parmar

Lead Solutions Architect at UNSW Australia

Long-term integration has supported real-time data exchange and simplified adapter-based workflows

The challenges I have faced with TIBCO BusinessWorks mostly relate to financial applications that do not come with those adapters, so that requires custom coding. The features currently in TIBCO BusinessWorks are good enough, but going forward, as we are doing a lot of AI-based integrations, I would like to see TIBCO come up with more prompt-driven configurations rather than people having to understand deep technology. AI-driven features in TIBCO BusinessWorks would be beneficial, so that our business tech BA can do the development rather than needing programmers. More artificial intelligence functionality would help so people do not have to code.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"As an enterprise organization, data availability is critical and Confluent provides that SLA support."

"Having used SharePoint in the past, when I compare with traditional, old document repositories, like SharePoint, I would definitely recommend Confluent."

"The benefit is escaping email communication. Sometimes people ignore emails or put them into spam, but with Confluence, everyone sees the same text at the same time."

"Kafka Connect framework is valuable for connecting to the various source systems where code doesn't need to be written."

"Some of the best features are that it's very quick to set up, very easy to have a centralized area that gives us a history of changes, and the ability to give feedback on any information placed onto the pages."

"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 client APIs are the most valuable feature."

"The features I find most useful in Confluent are the Multi-Region Cluster, MRC, and the Cluster Linking for replication."

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"There hasn't been a single day that we had any problems because of the product stability."

"One of the most valuable features is data transformation; we have some legacy systems which are in old technology, like SOAP, whereas the new ones are in REST, so we use BusinessWorks to transform data from one format to another, from SOAP to REST."

"The initial setup of TIBCO BusinessWorks was straightforward since we have used the solution in our organization for a long time."

"One of the most valuable features is data transformation. We have some legacy systems which are in old technology, like SOAP, whereas the new ones are in REST. So we use BusinessWorks to transform data from one format to another, from SOAP to REST."

"It is a seamless and sophisticated tool."

"It's a great software application for the middleware use cases to connect the front channels to the back ends in a secure and safer way."

"BusinessWorks reduces development time, helping developers to focus on business logic."

"We use the solution to develop applications."

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Cons

"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."

"Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about Confluent charging high fees while not offering features that match those of other tools."

"We continuously face issues, such as Kafka being down and slow responses from the support team."

"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."

"It could be improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."

"Confluent is expensive, I would prefer, Apache Kafka over Confluent because of the high cost of maintenance."

"It could be more user-friendly and centralized. A way to reduce redundancy would be helpful."

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"Performance and latency could be enhanced. Additionally, having signaling stack support would be beneficial."

"Pricing is not one of its strengths. Using Tibco BusinessWorks implies adopting a non-trivial set of products (Hawk, Rendez-vous, EMS in most cases), and previous cost models enabled scalability on installation and deployment."

"The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods."

"The container-based image is too large and this makes auto-scaling difficult."

"Cloud fitness is lacking"

"There are not many plugins available to integrate the databases. We have to write it in Java and integrate it. The developers should have more knowledge. These are the three main aspects that they could improve."

"The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods."

"Improve Business Studio's stability to further minimize development time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Confluent is highly priced."

"Confluent has a yearly license, which is a bit high because it's on a per-user basis."

"The pricing model of Confluent could improve because if you have a classic use case where you're going to use all the features there is no plan to reduce the features. You should be able to pick and choose basic services at a reduced price. The pricing was high for our needs. We should not have to pay for features we do not use."

"Regarding pricing, I think Confluent is a premium product, but it's hard for me to say definitively if it's overly expensive. We're still trying to understand if the features and reduced maintenance complexity justify the cost, especially as we scale our platform use."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is low pricing and ten is high pricing, I would rate Confluent's pricing at five. I have not encountered any additional costs."

"Confluent is an expensive solution."

"Confluence's pricing is quite reasonable, with a cost of around $10 per user that decreases as the number of users increases. Additionally, it's worth noting that for teams of up to 10 users, the solution is completely free."

"It comes with a high cost."

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"I would rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"My understanding is that the licensing is very costly."

"I give the cost of the solution a four out of ten."

"I think BusinessWorks is more expensive compared to other products. We have the ELA, so at least we have some sort of bargain or discount with that. But for a start-up, it's very expensive compared to other ESBs."

"TIBCO licensing is yearly and very costly for a company like ours."

"Its price policy has changed quite a lot in the last two years. It was extremely expensive previously. Nowadays, you can buy a license for BusinessWorks for €2000. Looking at what you get in return in terms of support, TIBCO community, and stability, it is fairly reasonable. It is not too expensive."

"The solution is too expensive. It's one of the most expensive solutions out there, particularly because there are so many open-source competitors on the market. I don't know the exact numbers, however."

"Licensing scheme is too rigid"

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Retailer

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	16

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	24

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Confluent?

They charge a lot for scaling, which makes it expensive.

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What needs improvement with Confluent?

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What is your primary use case for Confluent?

The main use cases for Confluent are log aggregation and streaming. I'm familiar with Confluent stream processing with KSQL. KSQL helps in terms of data analytics strategies because if we are the d...

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How does TIBCO BusinessWorks compare with Mule Anypoint Platform?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether TIBCO BusinessWorks or Mule Anypoint platform integration and connectivity software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mule...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO BusinessWorks?

Because we have enterprise licenses, the pricing for TIBCO BusinessWorks is quite reasonable for us, so we do not see any issue.

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Overview

Confluent offers scalable, open-source flexibility and seamless data replication, supported by strong cloud integration. Key features like Kafka Connect and real-time processing make it valuable for data streaming projects while ensuring high availability with a Multi-Region Cluster.

Confluent is a robust data streaming platform that enables efficient management and integration of real-time data pipelines. Its message-driven architecture and fault tolerance provide reliability, while a user-friendly dashboard and connectors support diverse data sources. Cloud integration reduces costs, and extensive documentation, plugins, and monitoring capabilities enhance collaboration and revision management. Despite some areas needing improvement, including security in the SaaS version and integration flexibility, Confluent remains a staple in industries requiring vast data processing and task automation.

What are Confluent's key features?

Scalability: Handles large volumes of data, ensuring continuous performance.
Kafka Connect: Enables seamless data integration across multiple systems.
Real-time Processing: Facilitates instant data insights for rapid decision-making.
Multi-Region Cluster: Maintains data availability across different geographical locations.
Cloud Integration: Reduces operational costs and enhances deployment flexibility.
User Dashboard: Simplifies management with an intuitive interface.

What benefits and ROI should users consider in reviews?

Cost-Efficiency: Improved processes reduce operational expenses.
Data Reliability: Ensures consistent and accurate data handling.
Increased Collaboration: Boosts team efficiency with comprehensive documentation and management tools.
Scalability: Supports business growth without compromising performance.
Integration Flexibility: Seamlessly connects with diverse data sources and systems.

Confluent is commonly implemented in finance, insurance, and software industries for applications like fraud detection, ETL tasks, and enterprise communication. It supports real-time data processing, project management, and task automation, often integrating with project management tools like Jira, providing valuable solutions for business processes.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks provides robust integration with a user-friendly graphical interface, known for its high stability and scalability. Its drag-and-drop capabilities simplify development while supporting extensive real-time data processing and communication through versatile adapters and EMS.

TIBCO BusinessWorks is designed for efficient integration and middleware tasks, providing key functionalities such as real-time data processing and support for numerous technologies. Users can build services leveraging SOA principles, enabling communication between diverse systems like SAP and AS/400. It features high availability, load balancing, and effective cloud connectors, promoting seamless data transformations. The platform is largely intuitive and supports quick deployment with its low-code nature, though it faces challenges in user training, documentation, and stability. Price and licensing may present hurdles for smaller businesses, with container image size and memory usage limiting cloud capabilities.

What features make TIBCO BusinessWorks stand out?

Robust Integration: Facilitates seamless system connectivity.
User-Friendly Graphical Interface: Simplifies navigation and development.
Real-Time Data Processing: Enables instant data operations.
Extensive Adapters: Supports connection to various systems.
High Availability: Ensures consistent operational performance.
Low-Code Nature: Speeds up implementation and simplifies operations.

What benefits should users consider?

Stability and Scalability: Offers reliable performance and growth.
Simplified Development: Drag-and-drop tools enhance ease of use.
Quick Deployment: Reduced time to market through low-code features.
Efficient Cloud Integration: Enhances functionality with cloud connectors.
Extensive Data Transformation: Manages complex data processes seamlessly.

TIBCO BusinessWorks is widely employed in industries like banking, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications for managing operations, transforming data, and enhancing application integration across on-premises and cloud environments. It facilitates communication between SAP, EMEA systems, and legacy applications such as AS/400 or COBOL, utilizing APIs for synchronous or event-based architectures.

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Sample Customers

ING, Priceline.com, Nordea, Target, RBC, Tivo, Capital One, Chartboost

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