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 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."
"It is also good for knowledge base management."
"The solution can handle a high volume of data because it works and scales well."
"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."
"Kafka Connect framework is valuable for connecting to the various source systems where code doesn't need to be written."
"Their tech support is amazing; they are very good, both on and off-site."
"Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."
"The design of the product is extremely well built and it is highly configurable."
"The exchange and API management features are the best in the market."
"The monitoring capabilities of this product are very good because of the feedback it supplies in statistics."
"Mule Anypoint Platform's valuable features are its flexibility in terms of deployment and its SaaS capabilities."
"The product’s ability to seamlessly translate protocols is great."
"This is the easiest and best tool available."
"The flexibility has been great overall."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is our preferred platform for integration."
"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."
"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."
"Areas for improvement include implementing multi-storage support to differentiate between database stores based on data age and optimizing storage costs."
"There is no local support team in Saudi Arabia."
"It could have more integration with different platforms."
"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."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"It could have more themes. They should also have more reporting-oriented plugins as well. It would be great to have free custom reports that can be dispatched directly from Jira."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is complex for beginners. Users without programming skills will find it complex. It should also improve its pricing."
"We would like an entire DevOps in place in this particular solution."
"Lacks intelligent management data and intelligent mappings."
"This becomes an expensive solution over time."
"Although the solution's proxy design and process are good, it faces connecting issues because it lacks data integration."
"The solution is very expensive. They need to work on the pricing."
"The compatibility with vendors can be improved. Microsoft Azure heavily uses single software."
"Adding connectors for new upcoming applications would add extra value to this product."
Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 21 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 41 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 Qlik Replicate, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, SAP Process Orchestration, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Palantir Foundry. See our Confluent vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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