We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and WhereScape RED based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Powerful but easy-to-use and intuitive."
"The function of the solution is great."
"It is easy to deploy workflows and schedule jobs."
"The solution can scale very easily."
"What I like best about Azure Data Factory is that it allows you to create pipelines, specifically ETL pipelines. I also like that Azure Data Factory has connectors and solves most of my company's problems."
"The trigger scheduling options are decently robust."
"We have been using drivers to connect to various data sets and consume data."
"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."
"I like the data vault implementations."
"WhereScape RED has improved our business's ability to generate needed reporting without requiring a large team of developers to manually code all of the necessary plumbing."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."
"Lacks a decent UI that would give us a view of the kinds of requests that come in."
"The tool’s workflow is not user-friendly. It should also improve its orchestration monitoring."
"The speed and performance need to be improved."
"Azure Data Factory uses many resources and has issues with parallel workflows."
"We are too early into the entire cycle for us to really comment on what problems we face. We're mostly using it for transformations, like ETL tasks. I think we are comfortable with the facts or the facts setting. But for other parts, it is too early to comment on."
"One area for improvement is documentation. At present, there isn't enough documentation on how to use Azure Data Factory in certain conditions. It would be good to have documentation on the various use cases."
"When the record fails, it's tough to identify and log."
"Some known bugs and issues with Azure Data Factory could be rectified."
"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."
"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
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Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while WhereScape RED is rated 8.2. 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 WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Matillion ETL, Denodo and Talend Open Studio. See our Azure Data Factory vs. WhereScape RED report.
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