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Azure HDInsight vs. Confluent

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure HDInsight

by Microsoft

Confluent

by IBM

Overall rating3.94.4
Review count17117
Ease of use8.38.6
Ease of setup8.38.3
Quality of support8.68.5
Meets requirements8.88.9
NPS14.28571459.292035
Small Business23.5%34.2%
Mid-Market35.3%29.9%
Enterprise41.2%35.9%
Total page views88757
Total LLM citations347,445

Azure HDInsight

HDInsight is a fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA.

Pros

    Confluent

    Today’s customers expect every digital experience to be immediate, connected, and personalized. That takes more than data at rest - it takes trusted data in motion. Confluent is the complete Data Streaming Platform for keeping data in motion from the moment business change occurs through processing, governance, and serving. Built by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, Confluent connects applications, services, and systems; processes streams in real time with Apache Flink®; and serves trusted, always-current data wherever it is needed across cloud, hybrid, and self-managed environments.

    Pros

    • Streaming
    • Scaling
    • Data Integration
    • Easy Integrations
    • Features
    • User Interface