Overview

Alibaba Cloud collaborates with Confluent to provide the Data Streaming solution based on Apache Kafka, which enables you to access, store, and manage data easily as continuous, real-time streams. You can enjoy all the enterprise-grade features of Kafka without the cumbersome management and monitoring work and process, filter, analyze, and react to data streams in real-time, at a massive scale, with enterprise-grade security. Confluent Data Streaming is used for a wide array of use cases across numerous industries, including financial services, omnichannel retail, autonomous vehicle manufacturing, fraud detection, microservices, and IoT devices.

Benefits

• Fully-Managed Streaming Service on Kafka Enjoy Kafka's enterprise-level data streaming capabilities featuring a rich connector ecosystem, CI/CD containerized integration and delivery, and DevOps automation, with Alibaba Cloud's highly scalable and secure cloud environment.
• High Cluster Scalability and Performance Persistently enqueues messages to ensure the high throughput of clusters in scenarios where large amounts of data are accumulated. The automatic inspection and O&M system guarantees a high service availability that reaches 99.9%.
• Easy and Cost-Effective Operations Provides health inspection on core links and automatically performs diagnostics on clusters. You can configure an alert rule of message accumulation for each consumer group. The comprehensive API operations help you manage various resources.
• Professional Support for Kafka Keeps your applications scalable and away from potential issues throughout the development lifecycle with round-the-clock online support
• Commercial Products of Apache Kafka Combines the advanced technologies of Confluent in stream processing and 80% of code contributions to Apache Kafka to optimize the Kafka technology and establish a secure and reliable enterprise-level platform for stream processing.
• Seamless Migration for Immediate Use Provides fully managed and out-of-the-box Confluent Platform and allows you to seamlessly migrate your current business without code change. This greatly decreases migration costs and technical risks, and provides a flexible and highly available service.

Features

Multi-language Development Supports multiple mainstream programming languages, such as Java, Python, and Scala. Rich Built-in Ecosystem Provides enterprise-level connectors, Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) brokers, and Schema Registry. Compatibility with Apache Kafka Built based on the core capabilities of Apache Kafka and is compatible with Apache Kafka. KsqlDB Greatly simplifies the building of stream processing applications based on event streaming databases for lightweight SQL. Elastic Cloud Resources Provides elastic computing and storage resources. Enterprise-level Security Capabilities Supports SSL, role-based access control (RBAC), and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). After-sales Support for Enterprise-level Solutions Provides 24/7 technical support, 365 days a year Integration with Alibaba Cloud Services Consumes data and performs distributed computing by using Alibaba Cloud services such as Realtime Compute for Apache Flink and E-MapReduce (EMR).