We performed a comparison between Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics and Talend Open Studio 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 has a really friendly user interface, which is its main feature. The process of automating or combining SQL code with some databases and doing the automation is great and really convenient."
"Provides a good open source option."
"Pentaho Data Integration is quite simple to learn, and there is a lot of information available online."
"I can create faster instructions than writing with SQL or code. Also, I am able to do some background control of the data process with this tool. Therefore, I use it as an ELT tool. I have a station area where I can work with all the information that I have in my production databases, then I can work with the data that I created."
"We use Lumada’s ability to develop and deploy data pipeline templates once and reuse them. This is very important. When the entire pipeline is automated, we do not have any issues in respect to deployment of code or with code working in one environment but not working in another environment. We have saved a lot of time and effort from that perspective because it is easy to build ETL pipelines."
"Its drag-and-drop interface lets me and my team implement all the solutions that we need in our company very quickly. It's a very good tool for that."
"Data transformation within Pentaho is a nice feature that they have and that I value."
"Lumada has allowed us to interact with our employees more effectively and compensate them properly. One of the cool things is that we use it to generate commissions for our salespeople and bonuses for our warehouse people. It allows us to get information out to them in a timely fashion. We can also see where they're at and how they're doing."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable features of Talend Open Studio are customization and integration."
"Talend Studio has the ability to use it to ensure data quality."
"The drag-and-drop feature in the interface is very good."
"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."
"We're sold on the customization part of the solution."
"The standout feature for me is the user-friendly nature of the components."
"The initial setup of the product was very easy."
"I'm still in the very recent stage concerning Pentaho Data Integration, but it can't really handle what I describe as "extreme data processing" i.e. when there is a huge amount of data to process. That is one area where Pentaho is still lacking."
"If you're working with a larger data set, I'm not so sure it would be the best solution. The larger things got the slower it was."
"I would like to see support for some additional cloud sources. It doesn't support Azure, for example. I was trying to do a PoC with Azure the other day but it seems they don't support it."
"The reporting definitely needs improvement. There are a lot of general, basic features that it doesn't have. A simple feature you would expect a reporting tool to have is the ability to search the repository for a report. It doesn't even have that capability. That's been a feature that we've been asking for since the beginning and it hasn't been implemented yet."
"I have been facing some difficulties when working with large datasets. It seems that when there is a large amount of data, I experience memory errors."
"One thing that I don't like, just a little, is the backward compatibility."
"In the Community edition, it would be nice to have more modules that allow you to code directly within the application. It could have R or Python completely integrated into it, but this could also be because I'm using an older version."
"Although it is a low-code solution with a graphical interface, often the error messages that you get are of the type that a developer would be happy with. You get a big stack of red text and Java errors displayed on the screen, and less technical people can get intimidated by that. It can be a bit intimidating to get a wall of red error messages displayed. Other graphical tools that are focused at the power user level provide a much more user-friendly experience in dealing with your exceptions and guiding the user into where they've made the mistake."
"Inter-version compatibility is a problem, and migration projects between versions are required."
"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."
"The physical appearance of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I rate Talend Open Studio's stability an eight out of ten. Talend has some problems sometimes."
"It is not as visually appealing as some of the other tools."
"The technical support and documentation need a lot of work to come up to standard."
"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."
"As for improvement or additional features, I would like to know how to use Java in Talend and also how to use Talend in the cloud or in big data. I would prefer to have storage directly on Talend."
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Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is ranked 15th in Data Integration with 48 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 47 reviews. Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is rated 8.0, while Talend Open Studio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics writes "It's flexible and can do almost anything I want it to do". 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". Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is most compared with SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), AWS Glue and SAP Data Services, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform and AWS Glue. See our Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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