We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and Palantir Gotham based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The user interface is very good. It makes me feel very comfortable when I am using the tool."
"The most valuable features of Azure Data Factory are the flexibility, ability to move data at scale, and the integrations with different Azure components."
"From what we have seen so far, the solution seems very stable."
"What I like best about Azure Data Factory is that it allows you to create pipelines, specifically ETL pipelines. I also like that Azure Data Factory has connectors and solves most of my company's problems."
"The feature I found most helpful in Azure Data Factory is the pipeline feature, including being able to connect to different sources. Azure Data Factory also has built-in security, which is another valuable feature."
"For me, it was that there are dedicated connectors for different targets or sources, different data sources. For example, there is direct connector to Salesforce, Oracle Service Cloud, etcetera, and that was really helpful."
"ADF is another ETL tool similar to Informatica that can transform data or copy it from on-prem to the cloud or vice versa. Once we have the data, we can apply various transformations to it and schedule our pipeline according to our business needs. ADF integrates with Databricks. We can call our Databricks notebooks and schedule them via ADF."
"Data Factory's best features include its data source connections, GUI for building data pipelines, and target loading within Azure."
"This solution is seamless. From one platform, we can do just about anything."
"Azure Data Factory uses many resources and has issues with parallel workflows."
"There aren't many third-party extensions or plugins available in the solution."
"The solution can be improved by decreasing the warmup time which currently can take up to five minutes."
"Currently, smaller businesses face a disadvantage in terms of pricing, and reducing costs could address this issue."
"This solution is currently only useful for basic data movement and file extractions, which we would like to see developed to handle more complex data transformations."
"The product could provide more ways to import and export data."
"Snowflake connectivity was recently added and if the vendor provided some videos on how to create data then that would be helpful."
"The Microsoft documentation is too complicated."
"I think there should be less coding involved. Currently, using it involves a tremendous amount of coding."
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Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while Palantir Gotham is ranked 33rd in Data Integration with 1 review. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while Palantir Gotham is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palantir Gotham writes "A seamless all-in-one solution ". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Palantir Gotham is most compared with Palantir Foundry, Stone Bond Enterprise Enabler and SAS Data Management.
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