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Overall best but few shortcomings
What do you like best about the product?
Compared to AWS kinesis, it does not have any message limits and highly customized and scalable streaming technology.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is lacking in terms of managed service and detailed information regarding the message delivery. There could be major enhancements in terms of enterprise support that we can use in AWS kinesis.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using this software in a few of the POCs where we are streaming data from MS SQL server (operational data store) to Oracle server(for analytics) using pyspark and confluent kafka through hive tables. This is being done using Oracle CDC connector to implement DWH requirements.
Confluent- Solving streaming problems
What do you like best about the product?
Kstreams from confluent are the most helpful to me
What do you dislike about the product?
Problematic in case of higher workloads and requests
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streaming problems and use cases. It can be integrated along with kafka so a good fit.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check whether your client is ready to pay a cost or is happy in open source
Effective Confluent products
What do you like best about the product?
Confluent Kafka, Schema Registry, Streams
What do you dislike about the product?
Apache Kafka is more popular and more handy among everybody.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
POC related use cases where we feel we need more than just Apache Kafka
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Choose the right fitment according to your business needs
Overall Excellent Streaming Platform but need minor enhancements
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to scale up to any extent depending on the available commodity hardware in the organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such. For a person who is beginner in streaming systems, it is quite difficult to learn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our organization has a very large data volume that generates daily. This is payments-related data which is served for multiple reporting systems for insight. Confluent caters our need for the same.
Using Confluent for data streaming on banking project
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, just download and start configure.
Helpfull control panel via browser.
Helpfull control panel via browser.
What do you dislike about the product?
The control panel view on browser sometimes doesn't sync realtime.
Documentation about troubleshoot configuration is still limitless.
Documentation about troubleshoot configuration is still limitless.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project data stream can be reached by confluent platform.
Cool Product
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, Onboarding the application is simple, good documentation about the functionality available in the tool. Out of the box, monitoring is available and APIs are available as well
What do you dislike about the product?
Few of the connectors are still need to have better logging and monitoring, some of the connectors are not available on the confluent cloud as fully managed connectors
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Event-Driven Architecture, Microservices. benefits are horizontal scaling, easy configuration for the expanding if needed and easy to on-board new system and use of connectors
Confluent Platform and Cloud
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to deploy cloud cluster, a wide range of connectors supported, Ksql, platform over K8S
What do you dislike about the product?
High cost of the minimal configuration, so not cost-effective for low scale. Lack of private links backward the customer environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enterprise-level event-driven communication. Scale, features, and reliability.
Simplicity at its Best
What do you like best about the product?
I find it an excellent platform to have Managed Kafka, and the flexibility it offers is amazing. I liked the part of not managing the brokers and zookeepers and maintaining good abstraction while maintaining security features and separation of workloads with different clusters within a single environment. I find it better than others when coming to support, you will potentially get more realistic answers than other cloud-provided managed Kafka.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not many cons.
confluent UI could be improved a bit more and ccloud CLI should also offer much more options as in Kafka CLI. Should offer & expose some APIs to monitor the clusters and metrics.
Should offer IaC(terraform) could be game-changing.
confluent UI could be improved a bit more and ccloud CLI should also offer much more options as in Kafka CLI. Should offer & expose some APIs to monitor the clusters and metrics.
Should offer IaC(terraform) could be game-changing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No more downtimes have been observed when compared to self-managed systems. Support from Confluent for the issues which cannot be easily solved by engineers. Our clients business definitely improved
I worked with confluent connect mostly.. it was very user friendly
What do you like best about the product?
I worked with confluent connect mostly.. it was very user friendly
What do you dislike about the product?
Replies for forum questions should be replied faster.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was developing customized kafka connectors which was very easy by use of distributed framework
Great Streaming technology compared to Kinesis
What do you like best about the product?
We have the freedom of limits like kinesis we are bound. In my opinion, kinesis is very good technology in the market. Great connectivity with other data sources.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only suggestion is, please have two versions, one is the existing one which confluent cloud is and launch the second one which is fully managed. This will greatly help the newbies in kafka environment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating the data pipelines from mysql to hive, hive then ingesting the data into kafka in serialization format i.e., Avro. At consumer side, we have a kafka connector (JDBC CDC connector) to load to mysql server
Recommendations to others considering the product:
NA
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