We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Talend Data Management Platform 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."We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."
"The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"The most valuable features of the Talend Data Management Platform are the components."
"They're very competitive in terms of performance, which is a good selling point. It has very rich features. It provides a very rich feature set in the application."
"I think Talend is one of the easiest tools for faster implementation compared to other tools."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to understand."
"I like the way that you can use the context variables, and how you can work those context variables to give you values and settings for every development environment, such as PROD, TEST, and DEV."
"The basic tools are easy to pick up and understand."
"The most valuable feature is the data loading and scripting language"
"We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need."
"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."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"The interface needs improvement."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"DataStage is quite expensive. It is too hard to find a consultant using DataStage in Turkey."
"Working with some of the big data components is good, but I can see improvements are needed."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The sales and market department could improve the Talend Data Management Platform."
"The solution's memory sometimes bottlenecks and that can be challenging."
"The stability is good, but the performance is slower when I work on a huge amount of data."
"I've had some issues with bugs causing crashes, especially when making changes to the system or with the monthly upgrades to Studio they've introduced."
"They lack in memory capacity."
"I'd be interested in seeing the running of Python programs and transformations from within the studio itself."
"The documentation from version to version could be more accurate."
"Performance and speed could be improved."
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Data Management Platform is ranked 22nd in Data Integration with 17 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Talend Data Management Platform is rated 8.4. 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 Data Management Platform writes "Built for everything and packed with features but there are some monitoring limitations". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Talend Data Management Platform is most compared with Talend Open Studio, Talend Data Fabric, SAP Data Services, Collibra Catalog and SSIS. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Talend Data Management Platform report.
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