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Best Kafka tools for Aiven Kafka Connect
Kpow ranks first of six Kafka tools for Aiven's standalone Kafka Connect service, scored on the data path, production access, per-person audit, connector operations, sign-in and shared clusters.
Best Kafka tools for Amazon MSK Connect
Kpow ranks first of seven Kafka tools for Amazon MSK Connect, scored on the data path, MSK Connect API support, production access, per-person audit, sign-in and shared clusters.
Best Kafka tools for Apache Kafka Connect
Kpow ranks first of seven Kafka tools for Apache Kafka Connect, scored on the data path, production access, per-person audit, sign-in, shared clusters and connector operations, with TD Bank's use.
Best Kafka tools for teams using AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS SSO)
Kpow ranks first of four Kafka tools for teams that sign in with AWS IAM Identity Center, formerly AWS SSO, scored on the data path, documented Identity Center setup, group-to-role mapping, enforcement, production access and per-person audit.
Best Kafka tools for Confluent Cloud ksqlDB
Six Kafka tools for teams using Confluent Cloud ksqlDB, scored on the data path, access, per-person audit and ksqlDB operations. Kpow ranks first; NORD/LB moved its ksqlDB work into Kpow.
Best Kafka tools for Confluent Cloud Managed Connect
Kpow ranks first of six Kafka tools for Confluent Cloud managed connectors, scored on the data path, production access, per-person audit, managed connector operations, sign-in and shared clusters.
Best Kafka tools for teams using Debezium
Kpow ranks first of seven Kafka tools for teams running Debezium on Kafka Connect, scored on the data path, production access, per-person audit, sign-in, shared clusters and CDC operations.
Best Kafka tools for Instaclustr managed Kafka Connect
Kpow ranks first of six Kafka tools for NetApp Instaclustr managed Kafka Connect, scored on the data path, connector operations, production access, per-person audit, Instaclustr setup and sign-in.
Best Kafka tools for Kafka Streams
Kpow ranks first of six Kafka tools for teams running Kafka Streams applications, scored on the data path, production access, per-person audit, Kafka Streams visibility, sign-in and shared clusters.