We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere Datastage 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: Users feel that IBM Infosphere DataStorage needs to have a stronger focus on cloud technologies to be a more considerable option in today’s marketplace. In addition, its reviewers do not mention an ROI, whereas Talend Open Studio users report a positive one. For these reasons, Talend Open Studio wins out in this comparison.
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature for our data processing needs is IBM InfoSphere DataStage's capability to handle ETL tasks with large record volumes."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"I am impressed with the tool's ETL tracing."
"It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"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 best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups."
"Talend is significantly easier to use."
"I didn't have many problems installing it. It seemed very straightforward to me."
"The most valuable features are definitely data integration, data preparation, and data stewardship."
"The most valuable features are the ETL tools."
"It is user-friendly and the interface is good."
"Working with some of the big data components is good, but I can see improvements are needed."
"We would be happy to see in next versions the ability to return several parameters from jobs. Now, jobs can return just one parameter. If they could return several parameters, that would be great."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"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."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The setup is extremely difficult."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"It doesn't have the ability to keep the repository of the source code (visual pipeline). It can be integrated with Git."
"The user interface could be made simpler."
"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."
"As for improvement or additional features, I would like to know how to use Java in Talend and also how to use Talend in the cloud or in big data. I would prefer to have storage directly on Talend."
"The solution needs more integrations."
"Having additional training materials, such as a video tutorial, would be an improvement."
"The price for Talend Data Integration should be less expensive."
"Talend Open Studio has a lot of capabilities, but there is some restriction. For example, if we want to connect to an SAP system, Open Studio cannot do it. We need to go with an enterprise version. Additionally, the monitoring features could improve."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 48 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Talend Open Studio is rated 8.0. 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". 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". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Informatica PowerCenter and IBM InfoSphere Information Server, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform, Informatica PowerCenter and AWS Glue. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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