We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and Fivetran based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to integrate."
"The trigger scheduling options are decently robust."
"Data Factory's best features include its data source connections, GUI for building data pipelines, and target loading within Azure."
"It is very modular. It works well. We've used Data Factory and then made calls to libraries outside of Data Factory to do things that it wasn't optimized to do, and it worked really well. It is obviously proprietary in regards to Microsoft created it, but it is pretty easy and direct to bring in outside capabilities into Data Factory."
"An excellent tool for pipeline orchestration."
"The most valuable feature of this solution would be ease of use."
"I like that it's a monolithic data platform. This is why we propose these solutions."
"The overall performance is quite good."
"Fivetran's most valuable feature is replication."
"The most valuable feature of Fivetran is that it only synchronizes what needs to be synchronized."
"Making the decision to implement Fivetran was supported by the fact that they have better connectors than other competitors."
"Fivetran is remarkably easy to use; I haven't encountered any other data integration tool that is as user-friendly."
"The compare feature is the most valuable piece of it."
"Fivetran can perform data migration incredibly fast, depending on the source and target."
"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's very easy and quick to set up. It also has a central hub as opposed to GoldenGate which is one direct interface. For GoldenGate I would have needed three interfaces whereas with HVR I have a central interface that manages everything."
"The solution needs to be more connectable to its own services."
"Some of the optimization techniques are not scalable."
"There's no Oracle connector if you want to do transformation using data flow activity, so Azure Data Factory needs more connectors for data flow transformation."
"The Microsoft documentation is too complicated."
"I would like to see this time travel feature in Snowflake added to Azure Data Factory."
"It would be better if it had machine learning capabilities."
"Data Factory's performance during heavy data processing isn't great."
"This solution is currently only useful for basic data movement and file extractions, which we would like to see developed to handle more complex data transformations."
"We experience cost issues because Fivetran is charged on a usage basis. When you reach a certain level, the tool should focus on reducing the costs. The solution is expensive when you are moving gigabytes and petabytes of data. It should also focus more on REST APIs and webhooks."
"More connectors are needed for exotic, popular, and rising star portals."
"The solution is very expensive. I would like to have a better integration of the solution with Azure."
"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."
"The environment must be more development-friendly."
"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."
"The documentation is decent, but it's hard to find information online about Fivetran. For example, if you try to search for an error code, you won't find much information about it in forums."
"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."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while Fivetran is ranked 13th in Data Integration with 19 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while Fivetran 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 Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Oracle GoldenGate, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and StreamSets. See our Azure Data Factory vs. Fivetran report.
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