Confluent
The data streaming platform.
Confluent is a data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka and Apache Flink that helps organizations move, connect, process, and govern data in real time. It addresses the need to build real-time data architectures, integrate diverse data ecosystems, and make high-quality data available for analytics, applications, and AI use cases.
The platform includes Data Streaming, Connectors, Stream Governance, Stream Processing, and Tableflow, which converts topics into tables. Confluent Intelligence provides real-time, context-aware AI, while Streaming Agents automate business processes with AI. Deployment options include Confluent Cloud, a fully managed cloud-native Apache Kafka service; Confluent Platform for on-premises use; Confluent Private Cloud; and WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible platform for private cloud environments. The Confluent Marketplace offers connectors and native integrations, and developer resources include documentation, API and CLI references, courses, and tutorials.
Confluent is designed for practitioners building data architectures and executives seeking to use data across their business. It supports use cases such as shift-left analytics, generative AI, event-driven microservices, and telemetry pipelines. Pricing information, deployment options, and a cost estimator are available on the vendor's pricing pages.
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