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Confluent

The Full-Scale Data Streaming Platform.

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Overview

Confluent offers a data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka. While not a CDC tool itself, it is a critical component in modern CDC architectures. Confluent provides enterprise-grade features for Kafka, including pre-built CDC connectors (leveraging Debezium and others), management tools, and a fully managed cloud service (Confluent Cloud) that simplifies streaming data pipelines.

✨ Key Features

  • Managed Apache Kafka service (Confluent Cloud)
  • Pre-built connectors for sources (CDC) and sinks
  • Schema Registry for data governance
  • ksqlDB for stream processing with SQL
  • Enterprise-grade security and monitoring
  • Global, resilient clusters

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Founded by the original creators of Kafka
  • Most complete ecosystem of tools around Kafka (Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB)
  • Available as a fully managed service on all major clouds

Unique Value: Confluent makes it easy for any organization to harness the power of data in motion by providing a complete, enterprise-ready data streaming platform.

🎯 Use Cases (5)

Building event-driven architectures Real-time analytics pipelines Microservices integration Log aggregation and processing Serving as the central nervous system for enterprise data

✅ Best For

  • Using a CDC source connector to stream database changes into Kafka topics for consumption by multiple microservices.
  • Aggregating and processing clickstream data in real-time with ksqlDB.

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Simple point-to-point database replication.
  • Batch ETL workloads.

🏆 Alternatives

Cloud provider streaming services (AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub) Other Kafka providers (Aiven, Instaclustr) Striim

Compared to self-managing open-source Kafka, Confluent dramatically reduces operational complexity. Versus cloud provider services like Kinesis, Confluent offers a richer ecosystem, multi-cloud portability, and avoids vendor lock-in.

💻 Platforms

Web (Cloud) Self-hosted (Confluent Platform)

🔌 Integrations

Debezium (via Kafka Connect) JDBC Connector Salesforce CDC Snowflake Elasticsearch BigQuery Redshift

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Phone Support
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (Varies by plan tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ SOC 2 ✓ HIPAA ✓ BAA Available ✓ GDPR ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ SSO ✓ SOC 1/2/3 ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ HIPAA ✓ PCI DSS

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

✓ 30-day free trial

Free tier: Confluent Cloud has a free tier with usage limits.

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