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ProductConfluent 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 ofdata throughout an organization and processing it in real-time. Originally developed
at LinkedIn by the founders of Confluent, Apache Kafka is the industry standard
infrastructure for setting data in motion and is used by organizations aroundthe world to deliver exceptional customer experiences and data-driven, backend
operations.
Confluent Platform is an enterprise-ready platform that completes Kafka withadvanced capabilities designed to help accelerate application development andconnectivity, enable transformations through stream processing, simplify enterprise
operations at scale and meet stringent architectural requirements.
DeveloperOperator

Architect

Unrestricted Developer Productivity

Efficient Operations at Scale

Production-stage Prerequisites

Multi-language Development

GUI-driven Management & Monitoring

Enterprise-grade Security

Rich Pre-built Ecosystem

Flexible DevOps Automation

Data Compatibility

Stream Processing

Dynamic Performance & Elasticity

Global Resilience

Apache Kafka

Self-managed SoftwareEnterprise
SupportProfessionalServices

Availability Everywhere

Committer-driven Expertise

Fully Managed Cloud ServiceTrainingPartners

What Customers areSaying“Walmart is a $500 billion in revenue
company, so every second is worth
millions of dollars. Having Confluent
as our partner has been invaluable.
We have expert support when weneed it, best practices blueprints,and insight into new features to theproduct. Kafka and Confluent are thebackbone of our digital omnichanneltransformation at Walmart.”
Chris Kasten
Vice President | Walmart Cloud“We love open source, but at the sametime we’re not a startup. We’re alarge financial institution that workswith world-class organizations, andwe need services that make it easierfor us to sleep at night. Confluent
Platform is very reliable; it’s neverdown. It has become our backbone.”
Kaspar Situmorang
Executive Vice President | Bank Rakyat Indonesia

Why Confluent Platform?
Unrestricted Developer
Productivity

Efficient Operations at Scale

Production-stage Prerequisites

Minimize operational complexity while

Architect the platform with theDemocratize Kafka for a wider range ofensuring high performance and scalability

foundational enterprise-level attributes

developers and accelerate how fast they

as data in motion grows through yourneeded to implement data in motion use

build real-time applications that leverageorganization.

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 directlyor on bare metal and virtual machines, or leverage a fully managedwith Kafka committers to assist you throughout the application

cloud service with Confluent Cloud.

development lifecycle.

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FeaturesApacheKafka

Confluent
Platform

Industry Recognition

Apache Kafka(1) with Connect and Streams• Top 10 Ranking on Forbes
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
Admin REST APIs(2) RESTful interface for performing admin operations
Rich Pre-built Ecosystem
Connectors(1)(2)(3) over 100 supported, including S3, Elastic, HDFS, JDBCMQTT Proxy(3) access to Kafka from MQTT devices and gateways
Schema Registry(2) central registry to ensure data compatibility• JPMorgan Chase Hall ofInnovation• Morgan Stanley CTO
Innovation Award• Bank of America Recognition
for Enterprise Technology
Innovation

Stream Processing
Apache Flink(1) real-time stream processing for on-prem workloads with expert support

Community Leaders

ksqlDB (2) framework that exposes Kafka Streams functionality through SQL

Confluent organizes theworld’s largest Kafka
community event, Kafka
Summit, sponsors meetup
groups and leads the Kafka
Slack community.

GUI-driven Management and Monitoring
Control Center(3) GUI to manage and monitor Kafka at scale
Health+(3) intelligent alerts and cloud-based monitoring dashboards
Flexible DevOps Automation
Confluent for Kubernetes(3) complete, declarative API to deploy on Kubernetes
Ansible(1) deployment automation on non-containerized environments
Dynamic Performance and Elasticity
Self-Balancing Clusters(3) automated partition re-balancing across brokers in thecluster
Tiered Storage(3) offloading of older Kafka data to object storage while maintaining
transparent accessEnterprise-grade Security
Role-Based Access Control(3) granular authorization of access by users/groups
Structured Audit Logs(3) user actions logs stored in dedicated Kafka topics
Secret Protection(3) encryption of sensitive information (e.g. passwords)
Global Resilience
Cluster Linking(3) highly available, consistent, and real-time bridge between on-premand cloud environments

Industry Experts
Confluent employs a verylarge team of Apache Kafka
committers and experts,
enabling us to ensure thesuccess of your projectthrough enterprise support,
professional services andtraining.

Get Started
Download Confluent Platform
and try it free on a single
broker or free for 30 days on
unlimited brokers, or sign up
for Confluent Cloud and start
streaming in minutes.

Multi-Region Clusters(3) single Kafka cluster stretched across multiple data-centerswith automated client failover
Replicator asynchronous replication based on the Kafka Connect framework(3)

Visit confluent.io/get-started
for more details.

Enterprise Support
24x7x365 from the Kafka experts(1) Open Source (2) Community licensed feature (3) Commercially licensed feature© 2021 Confluent, Inc. | Confluent.io2