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 most valuable feature is the product's versatility to inject data."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"Finding logs is very easy on the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to transfer information via notes."
"I am impressed with the tool's ETL tracing."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"Talend Studio has the ability to use it to ensure data quality."
"You can use Talend as a stand-alone application without customization to collect data and generate reports over dashboards. It's got great functionality."
"We have contacted their technical support. They are great. They offer very professional help. If I need some technical answer, they are very professional. They are quick, professional, and very accurate."
"This is a user-friendly solution that is easy to use."
"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 most valuable feature for me when it comes to this solution is that it's easy to use."
"The product is easy to install and configure. It is one of the best tools for data integration."
"It is user-friendly and the interface is good."
"The setup is extremely difficult."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"DataStage is quite expensive. It is too hard to find a consultant using DataStage in Turkey."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"It is not as visually appealing as some of the other tools."
"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."
"It is complicated to understand the configuration process for email components."
"Technical support and customer service need to be improved."
"The stability of the solution could improve when running jobs. There can be errors when running projects but in the end, it works well and the errors do not impact the result."
"It gets the job done but it's a bit slow."
"The user interface could be made simpler."
"Talent consumes a lot of resources on my PC."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 47 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 "An open-source ETL tool, when deployed on-premises, requiring an easy installation phase". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, 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, AWS Glue and Informatica PowerCenter. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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