We performed a comparison between Denodo and erwin Data Catalog by Quest based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Denodo, SAP, IBM and others in Data Virtualization."Denodo's best features are its performance, easy data transformation, and the job scheduler."
"Denodo is lightweight in terms of how it leads you to combine your discrete data systems at one spot."
"The logical data warehouse functionality is fantastic. It truly stands out. The ClearOptimizer and Virtual Cache are great features. They work together seamlessly to optimize performance."
"Data mining is one of the valuable features. We're able to connect all of the data sources with the installed driver, so that is a good advantage in Denodo. Being able to join the tables and view them is also valuable."
"The most valuable feature is Data Catalogs."
"The most valuable features of Denodo are the extraction option for adapters, and there are many things for the views, that are cached. Denodo is not storing the data, it looks first to tune the query, and these things are for the agents."
"One thing that we have noticed is that when you have a BI tool, you end up building a lot of the logic in the BI tool, but as a company, every company wants to be tool agnostic because today, you could be in the Qlik Sense, and tomorrow, you may decide to go with Tableau or something else that is there. If you have put a lot of logic within the tool, transitioning or moving away from one BI tool to another tool becomes a very intensive process. By keeping the logic in Denodo, you can move to any tool."
"It is a very stable solution."
"When you combine it with data lineage, every time you need to make a change, it allows you to do impact analysis on any changes and then connect to the end-users or data stewards so that they can be aware that a change is coming. That's one of the main benefits we use it for."
"The data catalog feature is pretty good."
"The solution should have its own acceleration technology."
"Denodo currently integrates with ChatGPT, but the ability to manage and utilize them directly within Denodo would be a significant improvement."
"Tasks such as conversion of a date format or conversion of a number format that can be done in a very easy way in different languages, like SQL or Oracle, are not so easy to do in Denodo. For example, if you want to convert a date from one format to another, in Oracle it's pretty easy; in Denodo, however, it requires so many lines of code. Simple things that can be done very quickly in other database languages require more lines of code in Denodo."
"We can't scale it to meet digital requirements."
"There have been some issues when you are at a table. Currently, Denodo exports data sets for a tabular model. When you are finished modeling your database or data warehouse they export a link to be used in Tableau. They should support other tools like Power BI."
"The git configuration really should be improved."
"Lacks integrations with AWS, GCP and the like."
"The feature that you have to connect on LDAP needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement with respect to the connector and how to connect to the structured and unstructured database."
"There are always ways to improve things. For example, we can use AI to be able to find out something. When we are typing something, if we don't know the exact term, Artificial Intelligence would be useful to find terms that are phonetically or syntactically similar. Instead of having to type in the exact name, they can provide those in the list. So, they can provide AI support for the search because when you have thousands and thousands of terms, it is hard to remember all the names."
Denodo is ranked 1st in Data Virtualization with 29 reviews while erwin Data Catalog by Quest is ranked 12th in Metadata Management with 2 reviews. Denodo is rated 7.8, while erwin Data Catalog by Quest is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Denodo writes "Saves our underwriters' time with data virtualization, but could provide more learning resources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of erwin Data Catalog by Quest writes "Helps with metadata management, saves time, and allows us to do impact analysis on any changes". Denodo is most compared with Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Delphix, Mule Anypoint Platform and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas erwin Data Catalog by Quest is most compared with Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Talend Open Studio, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Alation Data Catalog and WhereScape RED.
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