We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and Talend Open Studio based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Data Factory has an edge over Talend in this comparison. Most Azure Data Factory reviewers feel that it is reasonably priced when compared with Talend.
"The most valuable feature of this solution would be ease of use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and the readily available adapters for connecting with various sources."
"One advantage of Azure Data Factory is that it's fast, unlike SSIS and other on-premise tools. It's also very convenient because it has multiple connectors. The availability of native connectors allows you to connect to several resources to analyze data streams."
"I like that it's a monolithic data platform. This is why we propose these solutions."
"Data Flow and Databricks are going to be extremely valuable services, allowing data solutions to scale as the business grows and new data sources are added."
"Microsoft supported us when we planned to provision Azure Data Factory over a private link. As a result, we received excellent support from Microsoft."
"Its integrability with the rest of the activities on Azure is most valuable."
"The overall performance is quite good."
"Talend is safe to use because it is very restrictive. It is easy to use when one learns how to manipulate data with SQL."
"The solution has a good balance between automated items and the ability for a developer to integrate and extend what he needs. Other competing tools do not offer the same grade of flexibility when you need to go beyond what is provided by the tool. Talend, on the other hand, allows you to expand very easily."
"The drag-and-drop feature in the interface is very good."
"The most valuable features are definitely data integration, data preparation, and data stewardship."
"The most valuable features of Talend Open Studio are customization and integration."
"We're able to handle large amounts of data with ease."
"Open Studio's best features are that it's user-friendly, even for beginners, and very easy to implement."
"The best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups."
"The number of standard adaptors could be extended further."
"The one element of the solution that we have used and could be improved is the user interface."
"Currently, smaller businesses face a disadvantage in terms of pricing, and reducing costs could address this issue."
"It would be better if it had machine learning capabilities."
"Real-time replication is required, and this is not a simple task."
"Some known bugs and issues with Azure Data Factory could be rectified."
"The support and the documentation can be improved."
"The solution should offer better integration with Azure machine learning. We should be able to embed the cognitive services from Microsoft, for example as a web API. It should allow us to embed Azure machine learning in a more user-friendly way."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Technical support and customer service need to be improved."
"The pricing could be lower. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The server-side should be completely revamped."
"We need more components to be more efficient. We use a lot of components, such as Salesforce, and it's not easy to use. There's are minor bugs and it's not easy to use some of the features."
"In terms of features, it has all the features that I need. However, it consumes a lot of resources. It is using a lot of RAM, and they need to fix the issue related to resource consumption. It currently requires more than 24 gigabytes of RAM, which is a big amount of RAM."
"Multiple products are there within the product suite. That can be actually trimmed down."
"Inter-version compatibility is a problem, and migration projects between versions are required."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 48 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while Talend Open Studio is rated 8.0. 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 Talend Open Studio writes "Intuitive interface and documentation make it simple to build jobs and APIs and logging helps pinpoint and resolve issues quickly". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer and Snowflake, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform and FME. See our Azure Data Factory vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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