We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Matillion ETL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution scales well."
"The product seems stable enough."
"I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"It is an incredibly user-friendly and intuitive tool, making the learning curve quite smooth"
"It has good integrations with Amazon Redshift and other AWS services."
"It can scale to a great extent. It can handle the load that we are putting on it, which is about 5TBs."
"Matillion ETL helps manage data movement, ingestion, and transformation through pipelines."
"The loading of data is the most valuable feature of Matillion ETL."
"The simplicity of this tool is nice. It has a good graphical user interface. You can also do a lot of generic stuff in the tool. If there is good connectivity to a cloud database, such as Snowflake, and you can have a lot of Snowflake functionality in the tool."
"The tool's middle-dimensional structure significantly simplifies obtaining the right data at the appropriate level. This feature makes deploying our applications easier since we utilize a single source without publishing data from various sources."
"It is pretty user-friendly, even for people who aren't super technical."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The scalability is tough."
"They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"The cost of the solution is high and could be reduced."
"Unlike Snowflake which automatically takes care of upgrading to the latest version and includes additional features, with Matillion ETL we need to do this ourselves."
"There are certain functions that are available in other ETL tools which are still not present in Matillion ETL. It would be good to have more features."
"The improvement area could be possible if the tool provides better integration capabilities with other ecosystems, including governance tools or data cataloging tools, as it is currently an area where the solution is lacking."
"I found some of the more complex aspects of ETL challenging, but I grasped the concepts fairly quickly."
"I am looking forward to seeing the expansion of the source range for their data loader product."
"The tool's lineage is very weak."
"It can have multi-environment support. We should be able to deploy it in different environments. Its integration with SAP connection is not so nice, which should be improved. It can also support an on-prem database."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while Matillion ETL is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Integration with 24 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while Matillion ETL is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "They listen to their customers, so if something is missing or not working, they will put it on their roadmap". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Matillion ETL writes "Efficient data integration and transformation with seamless cloud-native integration". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo, whereas Matillion ETL is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and SSIS. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. Matillion ETL report.
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