We performed a comparison between AWS Database Migration Service and Fivetran based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is cheaper than all platforms"
"I am very impressed by the scalability of AWS Database Migration Service."
"The tools are very user-friendly."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"AWS Database Migration Service is good for smaller workloads and provides compatibility."
"The process is now simplified because there won't be maintenance. Usually we can take a snapshot of the number I need. We can automate the backup snapshots and we can restore it very quickly. We get many benefits from the application."
"The solution is instantaneous. We can launch the service and reduce the end number of manpower."
"It's pretty useful when we need to migrate something big from a different type of database that AWS Data Migration Services supports."
"The product has some seamless connectors, which are readily available."
"The compare feature is the most valuable piece of it."
"For us, Fivetran has been able to scale both in terms of the data we bring into our warehouse and the amount of data that we use as well."
"The most valuable feature of Fivetran is that it only synchronizes what needs to be synchronized."
"The general data ingestion is valuable. It's used for a lot of data. It provides about 90% of the data we use in our data warehouse without needing data engineering."
"It is not like a traditional ETL, but it gives quite a lot of flexibility."
"The product is very easy to use and very easy to configure."
"Fivetran can perform data migration incredibly fast, depending on the source and target."
"The names of the services need improvement since AWS doesn't indicate what the function of the product is presently. You need to read a lot to find the service that you want in the product."
"There is no connectivity to the source database or the target database."
"As a solution, the better thing is if more platforms come with direct compatibility, like connecting to different data sources. The basic problem I faced the most was while transferring and reading data from Excel. So, one time, I found that all the components I had declared in my scripts were able to take it. And after some patching happens, it is not able to support that. Again, we need to update the version of Excel. So, it's not like a plug-in type place where you have done the solution and are confident that it will work. So, this is an area of improvement."
"One area that AWS DMS can improve on is its conversion of data types. For example, in Oracle, you have a data type called RAW, but in PostgreSQL there is no such thing. Thus, AWS DMS doesn't know what type I want to use when migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL, and when performing the migration, AWS DMS changed the RAW data type to the byte data type, which isn't what I wanted."
"Whatever solution worked today can not be reused in the next migration."
"Database Migration Service could be more integrated. I think that it makes sense to add integration to these functions. For example, AWS Glue has a feature called Orchestrator to create data flows, and that's more straightforward."
"I think that Amazon needs to improve the migration scenarios after analytics"
"If they had some sort of functionality where, at a specific point in time, if I want to start a new job, it should automatically pick up from where it has been left rather than having people worry about the exact job number and the timing."
"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."
"I would like Fivetran to implement additional resource monitoring and restriction policies."
"The connections with SAP must be improved."
"There was a random change to our contract in a unilateral manner after the first year. The overall cost of using Fivetran was then unclear and this is the reason I would not recommend this solution."
"Fivetran is very expensive for data sources with a lot of rows, such as email data. I would like to see cheaper pricing for data sources like that."
"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."
"The documentation can be laid out better to make it easier to find things, and I really wish there was built-in support for changing passwords. Some features don't work as advertised for the platform/repository database, and HVR is not always the fastest at getting results."
"More connectors are needed for exotic, popular, and rising star portals."
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AWS Database Migration Service is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Integration with 27 reviews while Fivetran is ranked 6th in Cloud Data Integration with 21 reviews. AWS Database Migration Service is rated 7.8, while Fivetran is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Database Migration Service writes "A cloud solution for live replication but has stability issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". AWS Database Migration Service is most compared with AWS Glue, Oracle GoldenGate, Qlik Replicate, Confluent and Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, whereas Fivetran is most compared with Qlik Replicate, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Confluent. See our AWS Database Migration Service vs. Fivetran report.
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