Solution Brief

STREAMING DATA PIPELINES

Build Using Real-Time Data with
Confluent + Azure Cosmos DB

Organizations and applications increasingly require access to data spread across multiple databases in real time. Confluent makes
it easy to build streaming data pipelines that connect, process, and govern business-critical data for Azure Cosmos DB. Together,
Confluent and Cosmos DB help teams build with real-time data while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and time to value (TTV).

Power real-time apps
with data streamingat scale

Provide self-service
access to curated
data streams

Empower application teams
to build using consistent,
up-to-date, and enrichedviews of data from Azure
Cosmos DB.

Allow teams to discover,understand, and share data
streams in real time as soon
as new information becomes
available.

Decrease risk andcost of modernization
Adopt an incremental
migration strategy andeliminate the risk of
downtime or data loss.

Reduce the TCO of
hybrid and multiclouddata pipelines
Leverage pre-built
connectors and a fully
managed streaming
platform for greater agility
at a lower TCO.

Amid unprecedented volumes of data being generated, organizations need to harness data from heterogeneous systems for realtime insights into how their business is performing, to make timely operational decisions in response to market conditions, and tobuild innovative modern applications that deliver personalized, engaging customer experiences. However, in a modern enterprise,
decentralized tech has unintentionally created distributed islands of data estates and locked away the business value of data intechnology silos.

Confluent as your streaming pipeline to Azure Cosmos DB
To unlock the full potential of data in real time, organizations need a modern, cloud-native database strategy centered aroundstreaming data. Industry leaders like Instacart and SecurityScorecard have turned to Confluent to simplify, scale, and modernize
real-time data streaming.
Confluent helps enterprises continuously collect and curate changing data from heterogeneous sources, on-premises and in the cloud,and stream it in real time to Azure Cosmos DB so that every system and application has a consistent, up-to-date, and enhanced viewof the data at all times.
From APIs to drag-and-drop UI, pre-built connectors, change data capture (CDC), and continuous SQL-based processing, Confluent
simplifies streaming pipelines to Azure Cosmos DB. Empower your developers to build innovative real-time applications faster, andIT teams to confidently pave a path to cloud migration and transformation.

© 2023 Confluent, Inc. | info@confluent.io | confluent.io/use-case/database1Solution Brief | Build Using Real-Time Data with Confluent + Azure Cosmos DBConnect any data source to Azure Cosmos DB
in real time
Empower your application teams to build using consistent, up-On-PremCloudOn-Prem
Databases

CRM

SaaS Appto-date, and enriched views of the data from Azure Cosmos DB.
Leverage Confluent’s 120+ pre-built connectors, including CDC,
to deploy streaming data pipelines in minutes. Break down datasilos and automate real-time data ingestion, preparation, andmovement from hybrid and multicloud data sources to Azure
Cosmos DB.

Connectwith 120+ pre-built
connectors

Processwith ksqlDB to join,enrich, aggregate

Governto reduce risk andensure data quality

With Confluent sink connectors, you can take the same data inAzure Cosmos DB and share it with any downstream applicationor system.

On-Prem Apps

Process data streams at scale

Real-Time Connections and Streams

Confluent’s native stream processing, ksqlDB, helps you
continuously process data using simple SQL to join, enrich, andaggregate data streams before they land in Azure Cosmos DB.

Stream data from anywhere to Azure Cosmos DB
so you can build with real-time data.

Any data-dependent system can consume the enriched
data streams in real time as soon as new information
becomes available.

Govern streaming data pipelines to reduce riskand ensure data quality

Download our free streaming data
pipelines ebook GET THE EBOOK

Govern your data streaming pipelines to meet internal and external
compliance while ensuring data quality for your Azure Cosmos DB.
Confluent’s Stream Governance enables your engineers to discover,To learn more To learn more about Confluent’s cloud-native

understand and trust the data streams, so they spend less time

data streaming solution on Azure, visit us at www.confluent.io/

looking for the data and more time innovating for the business.

partner/microsoft-azure.

“We’ve been able to save over a million
dollars in what we were paying othervendors for, not to mention the additional
operational overhead we’re now able tooffload. ​​It makes so much of a difference.
Business resilience, customer value,
all of that is enabled by having a system
like Confluent.”– jared smith, senior director of threat
intelligence”You will start to see more softwaredevelopment teams thinking about
reasoning and how we can leveragereal-time data to build features andto return value back to the customerin ways that I think weren’t possible
in the older batch data model.”– dusty pearce, vice president of engineering

Read the story

Read the story“Confluent and Google Cloud enabled us
to address our large database footprint
and retire our legacy data platform, which
was in many ways our Achilles’ heel. Aftermoving to real-time streaming on a cloudbased modern architecture, we can now
deliver new features and capabilities toour customers and know that they won’t
be slowed by an outdated architecture.”– jason mattioda, head of enterpriseplatforms & data engineering

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