Hosted Apache Kafka®
Hosted Apache Kafka®
Hosted Kafka
why managed in your environment is better
Hosted services become costly, inadequate, and restrictive when running Kafka at scale. Dattell offers a fully managed alternative that combines the ease of hosted Kafka with the freedom and customization of Kafka in your environment.
Our strict SLA with 99.99% uptime guarantee, 15-minute response times, and 24/7 support make us the reliable, secure, and economical choice for streaming large data volumes.
Hosted Apache Kafka®
why managed in your environment is better
why managed in your environment is better
Hosted services become costly, inadequate, and restrictive when running Kafka at scale. Dattell offers a fully managed alternative that combines the ease of hosted Kafka with the freedom and customization of Kafka in your environment.
Our strict SLA with 99.99% uptime guarantee, 15-minute response times, and 24×7 support make us the reliable, secure, and economical choice for streaming large data volumes.
Hosted Kafka cost calculator
Try our hosted Kafka cost calculator. Enter your current fees and message volume to instantly see how much you could save by using Dattell’s fully managed Kafka service.
Compared to hosted options, our service is more comprehensive, provides faster response times, and we do more to ensure your clusters are running at peak performance 24×365.
Hosted Kafka cost calculator
Try our hosted Kafka cost calculator. Enter your current fees and message volume to instantly see how much you could save by using Dattell’s fully managed Kafka service.
This chart shows the differences in service provided by Dattell and by hosted Kafka providers.
Our service is more comprehensive, provides faster response times, and we do more to ensure your clusters are running at peak performance 24×365.
Hosted Kafka Pros and Cons
Hosted Kafka
Pros and Cons
Hosted Kafka can be a good choice for small data volumes. But for medium and large clusters, fully managed Kafka in your environment provides better outcomes.
Here are a few factors to consider when evaluating if Hosted Kafka is the best choice for your use case:
Hosted services are budget friendly for small use cases; the surcharges added onto instance costs are economical. For a simple project, it would be cheaper to use a host than using a service like ours.
However, as data volume increases, those surcharges and other fees add up. For instance, our management fees are half the cost of Confluent when streaming large data volumes. And with our service you get much more than Confluent.
Allowing a provider to host Kafka in their cloud introduces unnecessary latency. In contrast, building Kafka alongside your infrastructure reduces latency. Read about decreasing network latency.
When locked into a vendor it’s difficult and costly to change how you manage Kafka. Additionally, you are subject to their limitations, such as which versions of Kafka are supported.
With hosted Kafka you don’t have full data authority and are largely left in the dark about security risks and breaches. You lose control over how many people have access to your data. And you are unprotected against the hosting company changing its security practices.
Full Service Kafka Management
in your environment
Full Service Kafka Management
in your environment
Dattell’s Kafka service combines the ease of hosted Kafka with the freedom and customization of Kafka in your environment. Visit our services page to learn about how we can optimize, monitor, and support Kafka for your use case.
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