We performed a comparison between Alteryx and KNIME based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Although KNIME’s open-source version is flexible and cost-effective and their service is top-notch, Alteryx offers an extremely intuitive intelligence suite and overall the solution is very robust and modern and the GUI is very user friendly. Ultimately, Alteryx finishes ahead of KNIME on most occasions.
"Alteryx speeds up the time to obtain business answers/insights on data."
"The modeling features are very good."
"The scheduling feature for the automation is excellent."
"Alteryx effectively visualizes the flow of data and what happens at each stage. I also like that it's a no-code solution. I also like that you can troubleshoot certain parts of the workflow by putting them in a sandbox."
"It helps clean messy data and provides spatial analysis."
"There are a lot of good customization capabilities."
"The analytics are easy."
"The connectors are a very good feature."
"Overall KNIME serves its purpose and does a good job."
"The solution is good for teaching, since there is no need to code."
"Valuable features include visual workflow creation, workflow variables (parameterisation), automatic caching of all intermediate data sets in the workflow, scheduling with the server."
"It can handle an unlimited amount of data, which is the advantage of using Knime."
"It's a huge tool with machine learning features as well."
"What I like the most is that it works almost out of the box with Random Forest and other Forest nodes."
"We have been able to appreciate the considerable reduction in prototyping time."
"Stability is excellent. I would give it a nine out of ten."
"I'd like it to be easier to work with PDF."
"Lacks an open source edition which would be helpful."
"The price of the solution could improve by being lower."
"There have been some issues with licensing, particularly with the increased prices. This has led some companies, including ours, to consider reducing the number of licenses or potentially discontinuing their use of Alteryx."
"It is a little bit pricey."
"The gallery could improve in Alteryx. Additionally, if there was a Conditional Join feature it would be beneficial. Since I do not have this feature I have to use Python scripts."
"More statistics tools: We can use to compare SPSS statistics with some automated advisory."
"When a process completes there is a notification, but the notification does not include the process's name."
"Compared to the other data tools on the market, the user interface can be improved."
"One thing to consider is that the prebuilt nodes may not always be a perfect fit for your specific needs, although most of the time, they work quite well."
"KNIME needs to provide more documentation and training materials, including webinars or online seminars."
"Though I can use KNIME in a 64-bit platform in the lab, it's missing some features. For example, from my laptop, I can use the image reader feature of KNIME. However, in the lab, the image reader node is missing."
"They should look at other vendors like Alteryx that are more user friendly and modern."
"I'd like something that would make it easier to connect/parse websites, although I will fully admit that I'm not as proficient in KNIME as I would like to be, so it could be I'm just missing something."
"I would like it to have data visualitation capabilities. Today I'm still creating my own data visualtions tools to present my reports."
"If they had a more structured training model it would be very helpful."
Alteryx is ranked 3rd in Data Science Platforms with 74 reviews while KNIME is ranked 4th in Data Science Platforms with 50 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while KNIME is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of KNIME writes "A low-code platform that reduces data mining time by linking script". Alteryx is most compared with Databricks, Dataiku, RapidMiner, Microsoft Power BI and Qlik Sense, whereas KNIME is most compared with RapidMiner, Microsoft Power BI, Dataiku, Weka and IBM SPSS Modeler. See our Alteryx vs. KNIME report.
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Of those three you should consider alteryx, it saves time in ETL a lot, Alteryx is better at handling large data sets tan Knime and RapidMiner. But please also consider Dataiku... Up to 3 users it's free ;o)