Confluent is an Apache Kafka-based data STREAMING platform: a full-scale streaming platform capable of not just publish-and-subscribe but also data STORAGE and processing within the stream. Confluent Kafka is a more comprehensive Apache Kafka distribution. It enhances Kafka's integration capabilities by including tools for optimizing and managing Kafka clusters, as well as ways for ensuring the streams' security. Kafka is easy to CONSTRUCT and operate because of the Confluent Platform. Confluent's software comes in three varieties: 

• A free, open-source streaming platform that makes it simple to GET started with real-time data streams;
• An enterprise-grade version with more administration, OPERATIONS, and monitoring tools;
• A premium cloud-based version.

Following are the advantages of Confluent Kafka :

• It features practically all of Kafka's characteristics, as well as a few extras.
• It greatly simplifies the administrative operations procedures.
• It relieves data managers of the burden of thinking about data relaying.