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.
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"ETL is the most valuable feature."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"Compared to other ETL tools, DataStage has excellent debugging and development capabilities. And the availability of connectors, even though we sometimes have to opt for specific ones. Also, the availability of patches is good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to transfer information via notes."
"You can use Talend as a stand-alone application without customization to collect data and generate reports over dashboards. It's got great functionality."
"It is easy to use and covers most of the functions needed. We can use the code without any extra effort. The open source is very good. They have the same commercials with additional connectors. The graphical design environment is also very easy."
"Talend Open Studio's installation process is easy. One just needs to install Java before installing the product"
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It has got so many connectors. It is intuitive and easy to use."
"Open Studio's best features are that it's user-friendly, even for beginners, and very easy to implement."
"The API integration and big data approach are very good because of how you extract data from JSP files or big data web repositories like MongoDB."
"The most valuable features are the ETL tools."
"I really like this tool, but the administration should be on the same client application because a lot of administration features are not on the client-side, and they usually need to have administrative access. It's quite complicated to force IT teams to have separate administrative access from the developers."
"In terms of intermediate storage, we have some challenges, especially with customers who store data in intermediate locations."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The pricing should be lower."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"The price for Talend Data Integration should be less expensive."
"Multiple products are there within the product suite. That can be actually trimmed down."
"Talent consumes a lot of resources on my PC."
"The profiling perspective needs improvement. Instead of using it in the studio, we are using a different tool which is also provided by Talend. It's redundant."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"When faced with a challenge, such as the necessity to link up with an unconventional data source like the legacy Cyprus Vision database that wasn't inherently supported by Talend, I had to resort to writing Python code to establish the connection."
"The technical support and documentation need a lot of work to come up to standard."
"I would say that writing to JSON is kind of a pain. It reads from a JSON file pretty well, but writing to a JSON file is not so great because its components are not good."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 48 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 "Intuitive interface and documentation make it simple to build jobs and APIs and logging helps pinpoint and resolve issues quickly". 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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