We performed a comparison between Alteryx and KNIME based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Although KNIME’s open-source version is flexible and cost-effective and their service is top-notch, Alteryx offers an extremely intuitive intelligence suite and overall the solution is very robust and modern and the GUI is very user friendly. Ultimately, Alteryx finishes ahead of KNIME on most occasions.
"It helps clean messy data and provides spatial analysis."
"It is one of the most complete and great customer service that I experienced with a software company/ecosystem."
"The drag-and-drop functionality, the ready-to-use analytics module, and the ability to track my data pipelines visually are the solution's most valuable features."
"The solution has a very strong community that is involved in the product. It helps make the usage easier and helps us find answers to our questions."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its performance. It is a powerful solution."
"The tools are built-in. You just plug and play, drag and drop, once you understand how to use the tools, it is easy."
"Alteryx makes it easy for the end customer to see clean data in a structured form."
"The solution offers excellent predicting power. The accuracy and confidence have been great."
"This open-source product can compete with category leaders in ELT software."
"We have been able to appreciate the considerable reduction in prototyping time."
"We are able to automate several functions which were done manually. I can integrate several data sets quickly and easily, to support analytics."
"Key features include: very easy-to-use visual interface; Help functions and clear explanations of the functionalities and the used algorithms; Data Wrangling and data manipulation functionalities are certainly sufficient, as well as the looping possibilities which help you to automate parts of the analysis."
"Easy to use, stable, and powerful."
"It allows for a user-friendly approach where you can simply drag and drop elements to create your model, which is a convenient and effective idea."
"From a user-friendliness perspective, it's a great tool."
"The solution allows for sharing model designs and model operations with other data analysts."
"The workflow and pipeline need to improve."
"It would be nice if they can provide Alteryx with more options for In-DB connectivity. That functionality is there, but it doesn't include all software we are connecting."
"I think sometimes the solution doesn't load properly or takes so much time for the workflows. Though the workflow runs and completes the file in Excel, if you use the same formula, it's a bit slow. Also, the image processing is not so good because I tried to do some image processing and they were like, sometimes they put two to eight. In the document, it was two, but the OCR predicted it as eight."
"Alteryx is just as complicated as coding, in my opinion."
"The learning curve is long, and there is lack of e-learning; the tool is not user-friendly to a non-technical user."
"From a commercial standpoint, more options should be available for pricing. The licensing model needs to be specific."
"There is currently no cloud solution and this would be valuable for many clients."
"The solution can be made more affordable."
"I would prefer to have more connectivity."
"When deploying models on a regular system, it works fine. However, when accuracy is a priority, hyperparameter tuning is necessary. Currently, KNIME doesn't have the best tools for this which they could improve in this area."
"One area that could be improved is increasing awareness and adoption of KNIME among organizations. Despite its capabilities, it is not as well-known as other tools. The advertising and marketing efforts to reach out to companies and universities have not been very successful."
"I'd like something that would make it easier to connect/parse websites, although I will fully admit that I'm not as proficient in KNIME as I would like to be, so it could be I'm just missing something."
"In my environment, I need to access a lot of servers with different characteristics and access methods. Some of my servers have to be accessed using proxy which is not supported by KNIME, so I still need to create the middleware to supply the source of my KNIME configurations."
"Data visualization needs improvement."
"There are some parameters that I would like to have at a bigger scale. The upper limit of one node that tries to find spots or areas in photos was too small for us. It would need to be bigger."
"KNIME is not good at visualization."
Alteryx is ranked 3rd in Data Science Platforms with 74 reviews while KNIME is ranked 4th in Data Science Platforms with 50 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while KNIME is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of KNIME writes "A low-code platform that reduces data mining time by linking script". Alteryx is most compared with Dataiku, Databricks, RapidMiner, Tableau and Microsoft Power BI, whereas KNIME is most compared with RapidMiner, Microsoft Power BI, Dataiku, Weka and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio. See our Alteryx vs. KNIME report.
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Of those three you should consider alteryx, it saves time in ETL a lot, Alteryx is better at handling large data sets tan Knime and RapidMiner. But please also consider Dataiku... Up to 3 users it's free ;o)