We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and StreamSets 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."Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"If the systems get migrated or upgraded, the amount of resources required are very minimal. We can change the connections and establish a new connection. It's very helpful."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"Can manage a huge quantity of data and provide reliability."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"It's a very powerful tool you can use to load data, get data, do the drawing between the tables, and put into the packet in a very fast way."
"The ability to have a good bifurcation rate and fewer mistakes is valuable."
"StreamSets’ data drift resilience has reduced the time it takes us to fix data drift breakages. For example, in our previous Hadoop scenario, when we were creating the Sqoop-based processes to move data from source to destinations, we were getting the job done. That took approximately an hour to an hour and a half when we did it with Hadoop. However, with the StreamSets, since it works on a data collector-based mechanism, it completes the same process in 15 minutes of time. Therefore, it has saved us around 45 minutes per data pipeline or table that we migrate. Thus, it reduced the data transfer, including the drift part, by 45 minutes."
"The UI is user-friendly, it doesn't require any technical know-how and we can navigate to social media or use it more easily."
"The most valuable features are the option of integration with a variety of protocols, languages, and origins."
"I really appreciate the numerous ready connectors available on both the source and target sides, the support for various media file formats, and the ease of configuring and managing pipelines centrally."
"What I love the most is that StreamSets is very light. It's a containerized application. It's easy to use with Docker. If you are a large organization, it's very easy to use Kubernetes."
"For me, the most valuable features in StreamSets have to be the Data Collector and Control Hub, but especially the Data Collector. That feature is very elegant and seamlessly works with numerous source systems."
"The Ease of configuration for pipes is amazing. It has a lot of connectors. Mainly, we can do everything with the data in the pipe. I really like the graphical interface too"
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"Some of the conversions are done inside the product. We use work tables that are created by the engine itself, but the names of the work tables are very long, and they don't have any meaning, which makes it a bit difficult to understand and follow exactly what is happening inside."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve on the documentation for the implementation. The documents provided are not very good for a new user."
"The solution does not scale."
"Informatica, in my opinion, is very rigid and not very flexible, whereas platforms like Alteryx or Matillion are very flexible and agile."
"Compared to solutions offering similar functionalities, Informatica PowerCenter is not very flexible regarding customized integrations."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution."
"We've seen a couple of cases where it appears to have a memory leak or a similar problem."
"The data collector in StreamSets has to be designed properly. For example, a simple database configuration with MySQL DB requires the MySQL Connector to be installed."
"They need to improve their customer care services. Sometimes it has taken more than 48 hours to resolve an issue. That should be reduced. They are aware of small or generic issues, but not the more technical or deep issues. For those, they require some time, generally 48 to 72 hours to respond. That should be improved."
"The design experience is the bane of our existence because their documentation is not the best. Even when they update their software, they don't publish the best information on how to update and change your pipeline configuration to make it conform to current best practices. We don't pay for the added support. We use the "freeware version." The user community, as well as the documentation they provide for the standard user, are difficult, at best."
"Using ETL pipelines is a bit complicated and requires some technical aid."
"Visualization and monitoring need to be improved and refined."
"We often faced problems, especially with SAP ERP. We struggled because many columns weren't integers or primary keys, which StreamSets couldn't handle. We had to restructure our data tables, which was painful. Also, pipeline failures were common, and data drifting wasn't addressed, which made things worse. Licensing was another issue we encountered."
"We create pipelines or jobs in StreamSets Control Hub. It is a great feature, but if there is a way to have a folder structure or organize the pipelines and jobs in Control Hub, it would be great. I submitted a ticket for this some time back."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while StreamSets is ranked 8th in Data Integration with 24 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while StreamSets is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StreamSets writes "We no longer need to hire highly skilled data engineers to create and monitor data pipelines". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Databricks, whereas StreamSets is most compared with Fivetran, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Oracle GoldenGate. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. StreamSets report.
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