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 performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"The solution is stable."
"It's a robust solution."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"Compared to other ETL tools, DataStage has excellent debugging and development capabilities. And the availability of connectors, even though we sometimes have to opt for specific ones. Also, the availability of patches is good."
"The main differentiator that I have seen between Talend and other data integration tools is the ability to view the data pipeline in the form of a program."
"Talend is significantly easier to use."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward. The deployment took between two and three days."
"The most valuable features of Talend Open Studio are customization and integration."
"The most valuable feature for me when it comes to this solution is that it's easy to use."
"There are many architectures: hybrid, cloud, and on-prem."
"A helpful feature for us is the integration with NoSQL databases."
"This solution has improved our overall time to value for data ingestion."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"The interface needs improvement. It is really too technical. That is the main problem."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"The setup is extremely difficult."
"The solution needs more integrations."
"The technical support and documentation need a lot of work to come up to standard."
"The product could be more intuitive."
"The pricing could be lower. They should work to make it more affordable."
"Talend should improve the log and error handling to better track the errors you find during development. Sometimes it's challenging to see what's causing an issue, and tracking that on Talend is complicated."
"In version 6.2 we did encounter issues with the job servers and specifically with ESB. Version 6.3 is better but large jobs can cause the MDM server to fall over, requiring a reboot."
"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."
"The security features could be improved."
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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