We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and Talend Open Studio based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Data Factory has an edge over Talend in this comparison. Most Azure Data Factory reviewers feel that it is reasonably priced when compared with Talend.
"The most valuable feature is the copy activity."
"Data Factory itself is great. It's pretty straightforward. You can easily add sources, join and lookup information, etc. The ease of use is pretty good."
"For developers that are very accustomed to the Microsoft development studio, it's very easy for them to complete end-to-end data integration."
"The most valuable aspect is the copy capability."
"The function of the solution is great."
"I like how you can create your own pipeline in your space and reuse those creations. You can collaborate with other people who want to use your code."
"Microsoft supported us when we planned to provision Azure Data Factory over a private link. As a result, we received excellent support from Microsoft."
"The solution includes a feature that increases the number of processors used which makes it very powerful and adds to the scalability."
"Talend lets you do everything — mapping, workflow, and orchestration — in a single place."
"The data integration aspect of the solution is excellent."
"The best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups."
"The rapidity of integration with data may be one of the valuable features."
"Talend Open Studio is easy to create jobs. We use the basic functionality and it is very good."
"We're sold on the customization part of the solution."
"A helpful feature for us is the integration with NoSQL databases."
"A very user friendly solution."
"The one element of the solution that we have used and could be improved is the user interface."
"Data Factory could be improved by eliminating the need for a physical data area. We have to extract data using Data Factory, then create a staging database for it with Azure SQL, which is very, very expensive. Another improvement would be lowering the licensing cost."
"The performance could be better. It would be better if Azure Data Factory could handle a higher load. I have heard that it can get overloaded, and it can't handle it."
"A room for improvement in Azure Data Factory is its speed. Parallelization also needs improvement."
"I would like to see this time travel feature in Snowflake added to Azure Data Factory."
"The solution can be improved by decreasing the warmup time which currently can take up to five minutes."
"The product's technical support has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Lacks a decent UI that would give us a view of the kinds of requests that come in."
"Talent consumes a lot of resources on my PC."
"The technical support and documentation need a lot of work to come up to standard."
"The price for Talend Data Integration should be less expensive."
"Talend Open Studio has a lot of capabilities, but there is some restriction. For example, if we want to connect to an SAP system, Open Studio cannot do it. We need to go with an enterprise version. Additionally, the monitoring features could improve."
"If I compare Open Studion to other solutions, their interface is robust but not so fancy looking. This is an area that could use improvement. I would like to see an updated interface."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"In terms of what can be improved, the scheduling is not there in the sister version, while it is there in the cloud one, which is a paid version. If all kinds of scheduling could be available on the Open Studio that we generally use and practice on, that would be great. The scheduling of the data migration is currently not available in the sister version of Talend Open Studio that we are working on. It is available in the advanced version of the Talend. This is the one thing that can be improvised."
"The solution should offer better integration with other products."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 48 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while Talend Open Studio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Talend Open Studio writes "Intuitive interface and documentation make it simple to build jobs and APIs and logging helps pinpoint and resolve issues quickly". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform and FME. See our Azure Data Factory vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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