Striim

AUGUST 26, 2023

While Confluent is a well-known option for data streaming platforms, its complexity can pose significant challenges for businesses. If you’re in the market for more user-friendly or more cost effective Confluent Alternatives, the list below is designed with you in mind. Frequently Asked Questions What is Apache Kafka?

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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kafka and Vector Database support According to Databricks’ State of Data and AI report , the number of companies using SaaS LLM APIs has grown more than 1300% since November 2022 with a nearly 411% increase in the number of AI models put into production during that same period.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 24, 2024

OpenAI has more production deployments, but Google is catching on to it. As we predicted in the key trends of 2023 about Apache Flink as a clear winner in the stream processing frameworks, we see Confluent offering Flink as a service. Data Mesh is certainly a hotly debated topic in the data industry.

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Confluent

MAY 13, 2019

In the last year, we’ve experienced enormous growth on Confluent Cloud, our fully managed Apache Kafka ® service. Confluent Cloud now handles several GB/s of traffic—a 200-fold increase in just six months. As Confluent Cloud has grown, we’ve noticed two gaps that very clearly remain to be filled in managed Apache Kafka services.

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Rockset

MARCH 26, 2023

To do this, Rockset has partnered with Confluent, the original creators of Kafka who provide the cloud-native data streaming platform Confluent Cloud. In the interest of full disclosure, it’s worth mentioning that I am a former Confluent employee, now working at Rockset.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2022

Summary Data has permeated every aspect of our lives and the products that we interact with. With their new managed database service you can launch a production ready MySQL, Postgres, or MongoDB cluster in minutes, with automated backups, 40 Gbps connections from your application hosts, and high throughput SSDs. In fact, while only 3.5%

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Confluent

APRIL 18, 2019

And Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka ® are at the center of this transformation. So working with Confluent Cloud and the Kafka experts was an obvious choice,” says Stefan Frehse, Software Architect, Digitalization, for food processing machinery company BAADER. Retail is another industry being disrupted by IoT and Confluent Cloud.

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Snowflake

MARCH 2, 2023

For batch and continuous file ingestion workloads, Copy and Snowpipe continue to provide all the scalability and governance benefits of the Snowflake platform, enhancing the value of your data. Give Snowpipe Streaming a try today to streamline your streaming data ingestion, and let us know your feedback about the feature.

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Confluent

APRIL 23, 2019

This freedom of choice ultimately allows you to build an event streaming platform with the language best suited to your business needs. At Confluent, we have an engineering team dedicated to the development of these Kafka clients. They make these clients more robust so that you can confidently deploy them in production.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MARCH 2, 2020

In this episode Michael Drogalis, product manager for ksqlDB at Confluent, explains how the system is implemented, how you can use it for building your own stream processing applications, and how it fits into the lifecycle of your data infrastructure. Set up a demo and mention you’re a listener for a special offer!

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Data Engineering Podcast

JULY 10, 2022

With their new managed database service you can launch a production ready MySQL, Postgres, or MongoDB cluster in minutes, with automated backups, 40 Gbps connections from your application hosts, and high throughput SSDs. RudderStack helps you build a customer data platform on your warehouse or data lake. In fact, while only 3.5%

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Data Engineering Weekly

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The companies backing Apache Hudi and Iceberg write articles about comparative ACID support in both the platforms here and here. Databricks is already doing a lot of these move-up stack products. Unless the Fed reduces the interest rate to zero, the unified platform is the trend for foreseeing.

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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2017

When you are processing that data in multiple systems it can be difficult to ensure that they all have an accurate representation of that schema, which is why Confluent has built a schema registry that plugs into Kafka. Summary To process your data you need to know what shape it has, which is why schemas are important.

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Rockset

AUGUST 16, 2022

Real quick disclaimer, I currently work at Rockset but previously worked at Confluent, a company known for building Kafka based platforms and cloud services. You can look at the source code, deploy it wherever you want and even fork the source code, create a new product and sell it! Let’s find out!

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Confluent

MAY 14, 2019

We’re grateful that the Apache Kafka ® and Confluent communities are composed of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world who are constantly doing all of these things. Thus, we are very excited to launch the Confluent Community Catalyst Program. What does it take to be a Confluent Community Catalyst? You know things.

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Confluent

APRIL 10, 2019

Instead of having many point-to-point connections between sites, the Confluent Platform provides an integrated event streaming architecture with frictionless data replication between sites. The key to the solution is Confluent Replicator, which enables frictionless data replication between sites. Try it out yourself.

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Confluent

MARCH 24, 2020

In July 2017, Confluent launched a private preview of what would later be known as Confluent Cloud. This platform as a service product has grown rapidly; less than three years […].

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Rockset

APRIL 26, 2023

An insurance company sets thresholds for various types of support tickets, identifying issues with services or products before they affect revenue. This architecture has a few key components: Streaming data : Streaming data is generated by website activity and transported to Rockset via Confluent Cloud.

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Rockset

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Real-time customer 360 applications are essential in allowing departments within a company to have reliable and consistent data on how a customer has engaged with the product and services. We’ll see the customer’s 360 profile that’ll include their product recommendations. In my workshop, I used Mockaroo data and sent that to Kafka.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 10, 2020

The team at Iteratively are building a platform to manage the end to end flow of collaboration around what events are needed, how to structure the attributes, and how they are captured. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform.

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Monte Carlo

JANUARY 16, 2024

Solutions like Confluent with Databricks allow organizations to prep, join, enrich and query streaming data sets in Databricks SQL, which they claim has up to 12x better price-performance than a traditional data warehouse. Our promise: we will show you the product. Interested in scaling data quality with data observability?

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This structure worked well for production training and deployment of many models but left a lot to be desired in terms of overhead, flexibility, and ease of use, especially during early prototyping and experimentation [where Notebooks and Python shine]. Impedance mismatch between data scientists, data engineers and production engineers.

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Monte Carlo

MARCH 10, 2022

In particular, it’s exciting to see product-led growth companies and those in the developer tool space continue to push the envelope of what’s possible.” Data reliability is no longer a choice but a necessity, and this recognition only underscores how data observability is becoming an indispensable component of the modern data platform.”

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Rockset

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We’re introducing a new Rockset Integration for Apache Kafka that offers native support for Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka, making it simpler and faster to ingest streaming data for real-time analytics. In this example, we’ll assume that you already have a Kafka cluster and topic setup.

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Picnic Engineering

MARCH 28, 2023

Introduction We continue our story on the Analytics Platform setup in Picnic. Therefore the Analytics Platform team was looking into how to help and drive this project to success as well. FCA’s backbone is a number of interconnected conveyor belts, which move products and groceries around the facility.

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Knowledge Hut

JULY 3, 2023

Data-driven Innovations: Due to a continuous stream of data that can be used for product development and innovation. Assessing real-time data can help to recommend customer preferences, identify trends and patterns, and allow organizations to build new products and services that serve customers better.

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Data Engineering Podcast

MAY 6, 2019

FoundationDB is a distributed key-value store that provides the primitives that you need to build a custom database platform. With 200Gbit private networking, scalable shared block storage, and a 40Gbit public network, you’ve got everything you need to run a fast, reliable, and bullet-proof data platform.

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Data Engineering Weekly

APRIL 9, 2023

Data Engineering Weekly Is Brought to You by RudderStack RudderStack provides data pipelines that make collecting data from every application, website, and SaaS platform easy, then activating it in your warehouse and business tools. Chinese citizens are among those who feel the most positively about AI products and services.

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Rockset

JANUARY 3, 2023

Lenley Hansarling, the Chief Product Officer at Aerospike, predicts that real-time streaming data will continue to pick up in 2023 and be used for high-value initiatives. Danica Fine, a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent, echoes this sentiment: “This year, the concept of data as a product will become more mainstream.

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Rockset

AUGUST 5, 2022

We’ve built a live video marketplace for collectors, fashion enthusiasts, and superfans that allows sellers to go live and sell anything they’d like through our video auction platform. Crucial to Whatnot’s success is connecting communities of buyers and sellers through our platform. Think eBay meets Twitch.

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Monte Carlo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Founded in late 2019, the livestream shopping platform Whatnot has grown to become one of the largest online marketplaces for collectibles in the U.S. Now, imagine all the data powering that platform. This stack powers complex internal and customer-facing data products. Think Twitch meets eBay. That’s not the case at Whatnot.

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Data Engineering Weekly

APRIL 2, 2023

Come and hear talks from companies like StarTree, Confluent, LinkedIn, DoorDash, Imply, and Uber on how they are advancing the state-of-the-art in user-facing analytics delivered instantly. Google announces DataPerf, the first community, and platform to build leaderboards for data benchmarks. I echoed a similar statement here.

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Rockset

AUGUST 21, 2019

Implementing a working plugin What is Kafka Connect and Confluent Hub? The core functionality of a Kafka Connect plugin is just that - the Kafka Connect platform takes care of the rest, including calling the method for every event in the topics the user lists and serializing or deserializing the data in the Kafka stream.

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Snowflake

AUGUST 16, 2023

At Snowflake Summit, we announced a wave of product innovations: Snowpark ML Modeling API, Snowflake Native App Framework, Dynamic Tables and more. The Snowflake Native App Framework remains available in private preview on Google Cloud Platform and Azure. If you missed out, not to worry! Learn more here. Learn more here.

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Rockset

MAY 3, 2023

We examine latency at the 95th and 99th percentile, given that both databases are used for production applications and require predictable performance. Many industries including gaming, internet and financial services are mature in their adoption of event streaming platforms and have already graduated from data streams to torrents.

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There’s the dichotomy between batch and streaming, between all-in-one platforms and niche connectors in your modern data stack, and the trade-off between ease-of-use and powerful customization options. Apache Kafka Apache Kafka is a powerful distributed streaming platform that acts as both a messaging queue and a data ingestion tool.

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Rockset

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Today, I’m excited to share a few product updates we’ve been working on related to real-time Change Data Capture (CDC), including early access for popular templates and 3rd-party CDC platforms. This all happens seamlessly as part of Rockset’s managed, real-time ingestion platform. What Is CDC And Why Is It Useful?

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