We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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."It is quite useful and powerful."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities."
"It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"The solution is stable."
"Finding logs is very easy on the solution."
"The technical support treats us well. They already have a support portal, and they are responsive, which helps."
"It is pretty user-friendly, even for people who aren't super technical."
"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."
"Matillion ETL is one hundred percent stable."
"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the UI experience in which you can drag and drop most of the transformation."
"We allow non-technical people to use Matillion to load data into our data warehouse for reporting. Thus, it is easy enough to use that we don't always have to get a technical person involved in setting up a data movement (ETL)."
"The loading of data is the most valuable feature of Matillion ETL."
"It has improved the costs of managing my customer’s data."
"Improvements for DataStage could include better integration with modern data sources like cloud solutions and documents, along with enhancing its capability to handle non-structured data."
"What needs improvement in IBM InfoSphere DataStage is its pricing. The pricing for the solution is higher than its competitors, so a lot of the clients my company has worked with prefer other tools over IBM InfoSphere DataStage because of the high price tag. Another area for improvement in the solution stems from a lot of new types of databases, for example, databases in the cloud and big data have become available, and IBM InfoSphere DataStage is working on various connectors for different data sources, but that still isn't up-to-date, meaning that some connectors are missing for modern data sources. The latest version of IBM InfoSphere DataStage also has a complex architecture, so my team faced frequent outages and that should be improved as well."
"The interface needs improvement."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
"DataStage is quite expensive. It is too hard to find a consultant using DataStage in Turkey."
"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."
"It needs integration with more data sources."
"While the UI is good, it could be improved in its efficiency and made easier to use."
"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."
"To complete the pipeline, they might want to include some connectors which would put the data into different platforms. This would be helpful."
"The tool's lineage is very weak."
"Ideally, I would like it to integrate with Secrets Manager as well as the AWS."
"Performance can be improved for efficiency, and it can be made faster."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Matillion ETL is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Integration with 24 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Matillion ETL is rated 8.6. 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 Matillion ETL writes "Efficient data integration and transformation with seamless cloud-native integration". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica Cloud Data Integration, whereas Matillion ETL is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, SSIS and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Matillion ETL report.
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