We performed a comparison between Fivetran and IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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."Fivetran's most valuable feature is replication."
"Its arrays are powerful enough to handle migrations even when the replication is happening in the background, without causing any trouble with the ongoing traffic."
"The most valuable feature of Fivetran is that it only synchronizes what needs to be synchronized."
"It is not like a traditional ETL, but it gives quite a lot of flexibility."
"The solution is stable. We've never faced any stability issues."
"Making the decision to implement Fivetran was supported by the fact that they have better connectors than other competitors."
"SysTrack load is the best feature."
"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's very easy and quick to set up. It also has a central hub as opposed to GoldenGate which is one direct interface. For GoldenGate I would have needed three interfaces whereas with HVR I have a central interface that manages everything."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"It's a robust solution."
"We like the flexibility of modeling."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"ETL is the most valuable feature."
"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 solution has improved the time it takes to perform tasks related to batch applications."
"Fivetran would be improved by adding the ability to integrate the data from third-party APIs."
"The customization could improve because Fivetran gives more thought to people who don't want to manage analytics workflows rather than engineers who want to be able to customize pipelines more thoroughly."
"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."
"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."
"The environment must be more development-friendly."
"HVR Software's technical support could be improved. Whenever we log a case, the response that we get from the support is a bit delayed."
"We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool."
"We experience cost issues because Fivetran is charged on a usage basis. When you reach a certain level, the tool should focus on reducing the costs. The solution is expensive when you are moving gigabytes and petabytes of data. It should also focus more on REST APIs and webhooks."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"There are three things that could improve - the cloud, monitoring and cloud integration. It's a solid product but not a modern one and of course it depends what you're looking for."
"It takes a lot of time to actually trigger your job and then go into the logs and other stuff. So all of this is really time-consuming."
"The graphical user interface (GUI) feels a lot like the interfaces from the 1980s."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"In terms of intermediate storage, we have some challenges, especially with customers who store data in intermediate locations."
"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."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
Fivetran is ranked 13th in Data Integration with 20 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. Fivetran is rated 8.0, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". On the other hand, 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". Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and Informatica Cloud Data Integration, whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter. See our Fivetran vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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