We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Talend Stitch ETL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"The most valuable feature is the data integration for data warehousing."
"It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."
"We are mostly using transmission rules. It has a lot of functions and logic related to transmission. It is a user-friendly tool with in-built functions."
"We like the flexibility of modeling."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"The most valuable feature of Stitch for us is ease of use. This solution is fire-and-forget. All an organization has to do is set up the connection or integration and move on."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"So, there are some features that are missing. If I compare DataStage to Talend, Talend allows you to write custom code in Java or use these tools in your applications as well if you are building a job application. But in DataStage, it does not allow you to write custom code for any component."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The setup is extremely difficult."
"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."
"DataStage is quite expensive. It is too hard to find a consultant using DataStage in Turkey."
"Generally speaking, support is a pain point. In the next release, I would love to see a change in support from the current chat to a more comprehensive portal."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Stitch ETL is ranked 16th in Cloud Data Integration with 1 review. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Talend Stitch ETL is rated 9.0. 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 Stitch ETL writes "Fire-and-forget solution with a great infrastructure". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Talend Stitch ETL is most compared with Talend Open Studio and AWS Glue.
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