We performed a comparison between Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] and Fivetran based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Fivetran, Dell Technologies and others in Data Replication."We've found the support to be very good overall."
"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."
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"Fivetran can perform data migration incredibly fast, depending on the source and target."
"You can manage all of your connectors individually, which gives you a very good ability to trace which one of your ETL processes is running and when."
"The most important feature of the solution is its ability to build data pipelines in less time."
"Fivetran is remarkably easy to use; I haven't encountered any other data integration tool that is as user-friendly."
"The solution is stable. We've never faced any stability issues."
"The product is very easy to use and very easy to configure."
"The general data ingestion is valuable. It's used for a lot of data. It provides about 90% of the data we use in our data warehouse without needing data engineering."
"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's very easy and quick to set up. It also has a central hub as opposed to GoldenGate which is one direct interface. For GoldenGate I would have needed three interfaces whereas with HVR I have a central interface that manages everything."
"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."
"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."
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"There was a random change to our contract in a unilateral manner after the first year. The overall cost of using Fivetran was then unclear and this is the reason I would not recommend this solution."
"The documentation is decent, but it's hard to find information online about Fivetran. For example, if you try to search for an error code, you won't find much information about it in forums."
"Fivetran would be improved by adding the ability to integrate the data from third-party APIs."
"Fivetran is very expensive for data sources with a lot of rows, such as email data. I would like to see cheaper pricing for data sources like that."
"The connections with SAP must be improved."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"Fivetran should add more connectors because its competitors, like Airbyte, have more connectors."
"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."
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Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Data Replication while Fivetran is ranked 3rd in Data Replication with 19 reviews. Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] is rated 9.2, while Fivetran is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] writes "RPO and RTO have improved drastically". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] is most compared with NetApp SnapMirror, Dell RecoverPoint and Hitachi TrueCopy, whereas Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and Informatica Cloud Data Integration.
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