We performed a comparison between Actian Pervasive Data Integrator [EOL] and IBM InfoSphere DataStage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."There were no concerns with the stability. This product is very good from a stability perspective."
"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."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"In IBM DataStage, the Transformer is the most valuable feature for me. It enables me to apply complex transformations, generate the gateway key, and map source tables into the session table."
"Finding logs is very easy on the solution."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"I am not sure if there are various connectors available in the recent version of Pervasive DI to support the wide range of sources available (e.g., big data, cloud, EME)."
"We would be happy to see in next versions the ability to return several parameters from jobs. Now, jobs can return just one parameter. If they could return several parameters, that would be great."
"DataStage is quite expensive. It is too hard to find a consultant using DataStage in Turkey."
"The interface needs improvement."
"Working with some of the big data components is good, but I can see improvements are needed."
"Its documentation is not up to the mark. While building APIs, we had a lot of problems trying to get around it because it is not very user-friendly. We tried to get hold of API documentation, but the documentation is not very well thought out. It should be more structured and elaborate. In terms of additional features, I would like to see good reporting on performance and performance-tuning recommendations that can be based on AI. I would also like to see better data profiling information being reported on InfoSphere."
"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."
"The setup is extremely difficult."
"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."
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Actian Pervasive Data Integrator [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Data Integration while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. Actian Pervasive Data Integrator [EOL] is rated 5.8, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Actian Pervasive Data Integrator [EOL] writes "You can use it to send data back and forth between Salesforce.com and JD Edwards". On the other hand, 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". Actian Pervasive Data Integrator [EOL] is most compared with , whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter.
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