We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere Datastage 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: Users feel that IBM Infosphere DataStorage needs to have a stronger focus on cloud technologies to be a more considerable option in today’s marketplace. In addition, its reviewers do not mention an ROI, whereas Talend Open Studio users report a positive one. For these reasons, Talend Open Studio wins out in this comparison.
"The most valuable feature for our data processing needs is IBM InfoSphere DataStage's capability to handle ETL tasks with large record volumes."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to transfer information via notes."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"In IBM DataStage, the Transformer is the most valuable feature for me. It enables me to apply complex transformations, generate the gateway key, and map source tables into the session table."
"It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."
"The most valuable feature for me when it comes to this solution is that it's easy to use."
"The most interesting aspect of the solution for us is that Talend Open Studio has a good balance between the features and the cost of the data management platform."
"The most valuable features are the ETL tools."
"The solution's technical support is responsive and helpful."
"The initial setup of the product was very easy."
"Talend Open Studio's installation process is easy. One just needs to install Java before installing the product"
"Talend lets you do everything — mapping, workflow, and orchestration — in a single place."
"The rapidity of integration with data may be one of the valuable features."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
"We would be happy to see in next versions the ability to return several parameters from jobs. Now, jobs can return just one parameter. If they could return several parameters, that would be great."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The server-side should be completely revamped."
"The price for Talend Data Integration should be less expensive."
"When faced with a challenge, such as the necessity to link up with an unconventional data source like the legacy Cyprus Vision database that wasn't inherently supported by Talend, I had to resort to writing Python code to establish the connection."
"It doesn't have the ability to keep the repository of the source code (visual pipeline). It can be integrated with Git."
"Multiple products are there within the product suite. That can be actually trimmed down."
"Talend should improve the log and error handling to better track the errors you find during development. Sometimes it's challenging to see what's causing an issue, and tracking that on Talend is complicated."
"It needs better installation configuration for other databases. Although the installation allows you to select another database, this doesn't mean that all connection points in the application point to the database selected. You actually need to do a search through the entire install to locate the configuration settings and change them."
"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."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 48 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Talend Open Studio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere DataStage writes "User-friendly with a lot of functions for transmission rules, but has slow performance and not suitable for a huge volume of data". 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". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Informatica PowerCenter and IBM InfoSphere Information Server, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform, Informatica PowerCenter and AWS Glue. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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