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Confluent Platform

Complete, enterprise-grade distribution of Apache Kafka®

Connect, process, and react to your data in real-time with the foundational platform for data in motion. Confluent Platform offers a complete, self-managed platform for continuously streaming data from across your organization to power rich customer experiences and data-driven operations.

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  • Announcing the general availability of Cluster Linking

    Easily link Confluent clusters together to form a highly available, consistent, and real-time bridge between on-prem and cloud environments and provide teams with self-service access to data wherever it resides

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Confluent Platform

Confluent Completes Kafka

Apache Kafka
  • Self-managed Software
  • Availability Everywhere
  • Fully Managed Cloud Service
  • Enterprise Support
  • Professional Services
  • Committer-Driven Expertise
  • Training
  • Partners

Benefits

Unrestricted developer productivity

Democratize access to Kafka and accelerate the development of modern applications that react to events in real-time.

Efficient operations at scale

Simplify the day-to-day operations of managing Kafka while maximizing its performance, availability, and scalability.

Production-stage prerequisites

Minimize the risk of security breaches and downtime for your mission-critical applications with enterprise-grade features.

Freedom of choice

Deploy on your preferred infrastructure, from bare-metal to Kubernetes, or leverage the industry’s only cloud-native Kafka service in Confluent Cloud

Committer-driven expertise

Partner with the world’s foremost Kafka experts, who work directly with Kafka committers to assist you throughout the application development lifecycle.

Platform Capabilities

Features

Unrestricted Developer Productivity

  • Multi-language Development

    • Non-Java clients

      Write producers and consumers using C/C++, Python, Go, and.NET

    • REST Proxy

      Provide access to Kafka from any network connected device

    • Admin REST APIs

      RESTful interface for performing administrative operations
  • Rich Pre-built Ecosystem

    • Connectors

      Instantly stream data using most popular data sources and sinks with a broad ecosystem of pre-built connectors

    • MQTT Proxy

      Access Kafka from MQTT devices and gateways without the need for a MQTT Broker in the middle

    • Schema Registry

      Offers a central registry for the format of Kafka data to guarantee compatibility
  • Event Streaming Database

    • ksqlDB

      Build event streaming applications that use stream processing with a lightweight SQL syntax

Efficient Operations At Scale

  • GUI-driven Management & Monitoring

    • Control Center

      Manage key operations and monitor the health and performance of Kafka clusters using curated dashboards

    • Health+

      Ensure system health and minimize business disruption with intelligent alerting and cloud-based monitoring tools
  • Flexible DevOps Automation

    • Confluent for Kubernetes

      Leverage a complete, declarative API to deploy and operate Confluent Platform as a cloud-native system

    • Ansible

      Automate deployment of Confluent Platform on non-containerized environments
  • Dynamic Performance & Elasticity

    • Self-Balancing Clusters

      Automate partition rebalances to improve Kafka’s performance, elasticity, and ease of operations

    • Tiered Storage

      Achieve infinite retention and elastic scalability by offloading older Kafka data to inexpensive object storage

Production-Stage Prerequisites

  • Enterprise-grade Security

    • Role-Based Access Control

      Centrally manage access to critical resources across the entire platform with fine-tuned authorization granularity

    • Structured Audit Logs

      Trace user actions in a set of dedicated Kafka topics to detect abnormal behaviour and security threats

    • Secret Protection

      Encrypt sensitive information (e.g. passwords) within configuration files to avoid exposing secrets
  • Data Compatibility

    • Schema Validation

      Ensure data compatibility by validating and enforcing schemas in the Kafka broker with topic-level granularity
  • Global Resilience

    • Cluster Linking

      Build hybrid architectures with a secure, reliable, and cost-effective bridge between on-prem and cloud environments

    • Multi-Region Clusters

      Run a single Kafka cluster across multiple datacenters and protect against disasters with automated client failover

    • Replicator

      Replicate topics between Kafka clusters using asynchronous replication tooling built on the Kafka Connect framework
  • Open Source
  • Community feature
  • Commercial feature
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Customer Stories

Global leaders are powered by Confluent.

Superior Customer Experiences

RBC improves their customer experience through data while staying compliant with industry regulations.

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Scalable Online Marketplace

HomeAway manages double-digit billion messages per day with Kafka Streams and Confluent Platform.

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Increased Pace of Digital Innovation

Alight Solutions increases the pace of digital deliveries with a unified data platform.

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