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CloudQuery vs Confluent comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CloudQuery
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (21st)
Confluent
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Streaming Analytics (7th)
 

Featured Reviews

Henry Ngeno - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager at a security firm with 10,001+ employees
Centralized visibility has transformed how my teams manage risk, compliance, and cloud resources
CloudQuery can be improved in several areas, particularly regarding the technical expertise required. It is not a platform suitable for layman staff or those lacking proficiency; it demands knowledge in data integration, cloud infrastructure, and SQL. Organizations without the necessary technical capabilities may struggle to utilize the platform effectively. Moreover, this complexity can increase the IT budget due to subscription costs, hosting, and additional maintenance expenses that can accumulate. Another area requiring improvement is the reliability of output, which currently depends heavily on data quality and access permissions. If the data in my cloud infrastructure lacks quality, the information curated will also be inaccurate, creating gaps and undetected issues. Therefore, the platform's reliability and accuracy hinge on maintaining high-quality data stored in the cloud.
PavanManepalli - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"CloudQuery has positively impacted my organization because instead of navigating through multiple cloud consoles, I can run an SQL query and get, for example, all my S3 buckets that are public, private, or that I need to do something with."
"The AI-generated SQL works well for my team as it gets things right most of the time."
"CloudQuery connects well with the role of cloud infrastructure management, providing rapid and impactful changes without delays in execution, ensuring everything related to database and data management functions effectively."
"Confluent facilitates the messaging tasks with Kafka, streamlining our processes effectively."
"The client APIs are the most valuable feature."
"A person with a good IT background and HTML will not have any trouble with Confluent."
"With Confluent Cloud we no longer need to handle the infrastructure and the plumbing, which is a concern for Confluent, and the other advantage is that all portfolios have access to the data that is being shared."
"We ensure seamless management of Kafka through Confluent, allowing all of our Kafka activities to be handled by a third party."
"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 solution can handle a high volume of data because it works and scales well."
"Confluent is an amazing tool that is highly configurable, integrates very well with Jira, and lets you create nice documentation for various products while also supporting reporting and online content hosting."
 

Cons

"CloudQuery can be improved in several areas, particularly regarding the technical expertise required."
"CloudQuery really acts as an asset inventory tool, which is great, but I find that somewhat limiting."
"It could be more user-friendly and centralized. A way to reduce redundancy would be helpful."
"Confluence could improve the server version of the solution. However, most companies are going to the cloud."
"The beginner who doesn't know how to work on HTML will struggle as when you create spaces in the Confluent, if you want to have some meeting notes or anything else, you need to know HTML and which HTML tags to include."
"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."
"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."
"The formatting aspect within the page can be improved and more powerful."
"Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about Confluent charging high fees while not offering features that match those of other tools."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Confluent is highly priced."
"You have to pay additional for one or two features."
"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."
"Confluent is expensive, I would prefer, Apache Kafka over Confluent because of the high cost of maintenance."
"The solution is cheaper than other products."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Retailer
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
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Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudQuery?
CloudQuery can be improved in several areas, particularly regarding the technical expertise required. It is not a platform suitable for layman staff or those lacking proficiency; it demands knowled...
What is your primary use case for CloudQuery?
My main use case for CloudQuery is helping with cloud infrastructure and managing all my cloud infrastructure, which helps me monitor, have a view, and identify potential strengths and weaknesses, ...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudQuery?
My recommendation to others reading reviews on PeerSpot is that if they seek to leverage cloud infrastructure management and monitoring with ease, CloudQuery is the right choice. It simplifies proc...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Confluent?
They charge a lot for scaling, which makes it expensive.
What needs improvement with Confluent?
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 ...
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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