Confluent vs. SAS Viya

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.

SAS Viya is a cloud-native data and AI platform that enables teams to build, deploy and scale explainable AI that drives trusted, confident decisions. It unites the entire data and AI life cycle and empowers teams to innovate quickly while balancing speed, automation and governance by design. Viya unifies data management, advanced analytics and decisioning in a single platform, so organizations can move from experimentation to production with confidence, delivering measurable business impact that is secure, explainable and scalable across any environment.