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Couchbase and Confluent Cloud simplify real-time data pipelines by combining the power of cloud-native data streaming with flexible storage for faster insights and data-driven applications.
Apache Kafka is an open source distributed event streaming platform. Built by the original creators of Kafka, Confluent Cloud is a cloud-native and complete data streaming platform available everywhere businesses need in—in the cloud, across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Confluent Cloud handles all aspects of data streaming infrastructure management, including provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and maintenance so users don’t have to manage Kafka clusters themselves. Beyond Kafka, Confluent provides 120+ pre-built source and sink connectors, serverless Apache Flink® stream processing, stream governance, enterprise-grade security controls, and more.
The flexibility, scalability, and reliability of Confluent Cloud makes it suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases where real-time data streaming and processing are essential.
Confluent Cloud offers a fully managed and complete data streaming platform, proven to lower the total cost of ownership for Kafka by up to 60% (Forrester TEI) and accelerate developer productivity when working with real-time data.
Confluent Cloud provides a cloud-native, serverless service for Flink that enables simple, scalable, and secure stream processing that integrates seamlessly with Apache Kafka—offered as unified services on one platform.
Confluent provides stream governance capabilities, including schema registry for schema management, a platform-wide stream catalog, and stream lineage visualizations.