We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Talend Data Management Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the product's versatility to inject data."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"The most valuable features of the Talend Data Management Platform are the components."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"I like everything about this product, but the biggest thing is the ease of use."
"The solution can run on any machine and that is a big advantage."
"I like the way that you can use the context variables, and how you can work those context variables to give you values and settings for every development environment, such as PROD, TEST, and DEV."
"I think Talend is one of the easiest tools for faster implementation compared to other tools."
"The availability of connectors is great."
"They're very competitive in terms of performance, which is a good selling point. It has very rich features. It provides a very rich feature set in the application."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"There are three things that could improve - the cloud, monitoring and cloud integration. It's a solid product but not a modern one and of course it depends what you're looking for."
"It takes a lot of time to actually trigger your job and then go into the logs and other stuff. So all of this is really time-consuming."
"In the future, I would like to see more integration with cloud technologies."
"The setup is extremely difficult."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"It doesn't have any big data connections. It would be good to have them because most of the systems are moving towards big data. There should also be a user-friendly way to interact with the cloud. Its loading process is very slow. It takes a lot of time for around 5 or 6 million records, and we are not able to provide real-time data to the vendors due to this delay. Its performance needs to be improved. It is also like a legacy system. It is not updated much. In higher versions, they only do small changes. We would like to have new features and new technologies."
"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."
"They lack in memory capacity."
"The solution's memory sometimes bottlenecks and that can be challenging."
"I would like to sync a project and do an upload from that current version, and then from GitLab, be able to download the latest one."
"The stability is good, but the performance is slower when I work on a huge amount of data."
"Including either XML or JSON in the next release would definitely be a good transformation. I'm not sure if Talend has that feature, but it's one of those requirements that we are working around and have to do some parsing of XML so this could make it easier."
"Performance and speed could be improved."
"Once you get past the basic tools, it gets pretty complicated."
"I'd be interested in seeing the running of Python programs and transformations from within the studio itself."
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Data Management Platform is ranked 22nd in Data Integration with 17 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Talend Data Management Platform is rated 8.4. 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 Data Management Platform writes "Built for everything and packed with features but there are some monitoring limitations". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Talend Data Management Platform is most compared with Talend Open Studio, Talend Data Fabric, SAP Data Services, Collibra Catalog and SSIS. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Talend Data Management Platform report.
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