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by taywrobel
1903 days ago
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StreamNative doesn’t lock critical functionality behind enterprise agreements while still advertising the software as open source, and doesn’t openly lie about what the system capabilities are. Not saying that they won’t turn evil at some point, but so far they’re leagues ahead of Confluent in terms of earning developer trust. At a minimum this developer, but also others that I’ve worked with. Maybe I’m the minority opinion here and that’s fine, but confluent has been far too shady for me to ever consider contracting with them. |
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We used FOSS Kafka for yonks without hitting any limitations - At one point we were looking at Confluent Replicator, but decided it was just easier to go with Mirror Maker 1 (and you know, no massive licensing fees) - and Mirror Maker 2 largely emulates Replicator in terms of functionality.
I'm aware of a few other things like the MQTT KC Connector, but that was never part of Kafka in the first instance, it's something that Confluent built for paying customers.
And I could argue that the StreamNative "critical functionality" that they lock away behind enterprise agreements is "quick bug fixes for the many bugs we're still finding", if I was feeling mean spirited.
But anyway, it seems your preference for Pulsar is due to Confluent, but they're not the only ones offering managed Kafkas - AWS, IBM, RedHat, etc. etc.