We performed a comparison between Confluent and JumpMind SymmetricDS 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."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."
"One of the best features of Confluent is that it's very easy to search and have a live status with Jira."
"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."
"A person with a good IT background and HTML will not have any trouble with Confluent."
"Kafka Connect framework is valuable for connecting to the various source systems where code doesn't need to be written."
"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 monitoring module is impressive."
"The most valuable feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"It is fully featured. It has allowed me to do everything I wanted to do."
"Areas for improvement include implementing multi-storage support to differentiate between database stores based on data age and optimizing storage costs."
"It could be improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."
"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."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"Confluence could improve the server version of the solution. However, most companies are going to the cloud."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"There is no local support team in Saudi Arabia."
"It could have more integration with different platforms."
"The user interface could improve. We are looking at some cloud-based databases, and I don't think they support that."
Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 20 reviews while JumpMind SymmetricDS is ranked 13th in Data Replication. Confluent is rated 8.4, while JumpMind SymmetricDS is rated 9.0. 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 JumpMind SymmetricDS writes "Excellent change data capture utility for distributed multi site environment". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas JumpMind SymmetricDS is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS Database Migration Service, SSIS, Azure Data Factory and Qlik Replicate. See our Confluent vs. JumpMind SymmetricDS report.
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