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Confluent Platform
Enterprise Platform for Data in Motion Built by the Original Creators of Apache Kafka®

Data in motion is a new paradigm that supports collecting a continuous flow of

data throughout an organization and processing it in real-time. Originally developed
What Customers are
at LinkedIn by the founders of Confluent, Apache Kafka is the industry standard
Saying
infrastructure for setting data in motion and is used by organizations around
“Walmart is a $500 billion in revenue
the world to deliver exceptional customer experiences and data-driven, backend
company, so every second is worth
operations.
millions of dollars. Having Confluent
Confluent Platform is an enterprise-ready platform that completes Kafka with as our partner has been invaluable.
advanced capabilities designed to help accelerate application development and We have expert support when we
connectivity, enable transformations through stream processing, simplify enterprise need it, best practices blueprints,
operations at scale and meet stringent architectural requirements. and insight into new features to the
product. Kafka and Confluent are the
backbone of our digital omnichannel
Developer Operator Architect
transformation at Walmart.”
Unrestricted Developer Productivity Efficient Operations at Scale Production-stage Prerequisites
Chris Kasten
Multi-language Development GUI-driven Management & Monitoring Enterprise-grade Security Vice President | Walmart Cloud

Rich Pre-built Ecosystem Flexible DevOps Automation Data Compatibility

Stream Processing Dynamic Performance & Elasticity Global Resilience “We love open source, but at the same
time we’re not a startup. We’re a
Apache Kafka
large financial institution that works
with world-class organizations, and
we need services that make it easier
Self-managed Software Availability Everywhere Fully Managed Cloud Service
for us to sleep at night. Confluent
Platform is very reliable; it’s never
Enterprise Professional
Support Services
Committer-driven Expertise Training Partners down. It has become our backbone.”
Kaspar Situmorang
Executive Vice President | Bank Rakyat Indonesia

Why Confluent Platform?

Unrestricted Developer Efficient Operations at Scale Production-stage Prerequisites
Productivity Minimize operational complexity while Architect the platform with the
Democratize Kafka for a wider range of ensuring high performance and scalability foundational enterprise-level attributes
developers and accelerate how fast they as data in motion grows through your needed to implement data in motion use
build real-time applications that leverage organization. cases in production.
data in motion.

Availability Everywhere Committer-driven Expertise

Deploy on-premises as either a cloud-native system on Kubernetes Leverage the world’s foremost Kafka experts, who work directly
or on bare metal and virtual machines, or leverage a fully managed with Kafka committers to assist you throughout the application
cloud service with Confluent Cloud. development lifecycle.

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Features
Industry Recognition
Apache Confluent
Kafka Platform
• Top 10 Ranking on Forbes
Apache Kafka(1) with Connect and Streams Cloud 100
Multi-language Development • 2020 LinkedIn Top Startup
Clients(1) C++, Python, Go, and .NET • Google Cloud Technology
Partner of the Year Award
REST Proxy(2) access to Kafka from any network connected device
• JPMorgan Chase Hall of
Admin REST APIs(2) RESTful interface for performing admin operations
Innovation
Rich Pre-built Ecosystem
• Morgan Stanley CTO
Connectors(1)(2)(3) over 100 supported, including S3, Elastic, HDFS, JDBC Innovation Award

MQTT Proxy(3) access to Kafka from MQTT devices and gateways • Bank of America Recognition
for Enterprise Technology
Schema Registry(2) central registry to ensure data compatibility
Innovation
Stream Processing

Apache Flink(1) real-time stream processing for on-prem workloads with expert support Community Leaders
GUI-driven Management and Monitoring Confluent organizes the
world’s largest Kafka
Control Center(3) GUI to manage and monitor Kafka at scale
community event, Kafka
Health+(3) intelligent alerts and cloud-based monitoring dashboards Summit, sponsors meetup
groups and leads the Kafka
Flexible DevOps Automation
Slack community.
Confluent for Kubernetes(3) complete, declarative API to deploy on Kubernetes

Ansible(1) deployment automation on non-containerized environments

Industry Experts
Dynamic Performance and Elasticity
Confluent employs a very
Self-Balancing Clusters(3) automated partition re-balancing across brokers in the large team of Apache Kafka
cluster committers and experts,
enabling us to ensure the
Tiered Storage(3) offloading of older Kafka data to object storage while maintaining
success of your project
transparent access
through enterprise support,
Enterprise-grade Security professional services and
training.
Role-Based Access Control(3) granular authorization of access by users/groups

Structured Audit Logs(3) user actions logs stored in dedicated Kafka topics
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Secret Protection(3) encryption of sensitive information (e.g. passwords)
Download Confluent Platform
Global Resilience and try it free on a single
Cluster Linking(3) highly available, consistent, and real-time bridge between on-prem broker or free for 30 days on
and cloud environments unlimited brokers, or sign up
for Confluent Cloud and start
Multi-Region Clusters(3) single Kafka cluster stretched across multiple data-centers
streaming in minutes.
with automated client failover

Replicator(3) asynchronous replication based on the Kafka Connect framework Visit confluent.io/get-started
Enterprise Support for more details.

24x7x365 from the Kafka experts

(1) Open Source (2) Community licensed feature (3) Commercially licensed feature

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