We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and WhereScape RED based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"The solution is stable."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"I am impressed with the tool's ETL tracing."
"The solution has improved the time it takes to perform tasks related to batch applications."
"As a data integration platform, it is easy to use. It is quite robust and useful for volumetric analysis when you have huge volumes of data. We have tested it for up to ten million rows, and it is robust enough to process ten million rows internally with its parallel processing. Its error logging mechanism is far simpler and easier to understand than other data integration tools. The newer version of InfoSphere has the data catalog and IDC lineage. They are helpful in the easy traceability of columns and tables."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"Support is absolutely excellent, efficient, and timely."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."
"WhereScape is really helpful in terms of architecture data. Everything is one of automation. Two people can do thousands of tables in one day or two. It saves a lot of time."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"This is a fantastically robust DW tool that will make you at least 10 times faster in producing a DW."
"WhereScape's deployment package is a fantastic feature. The application allows for selecting specific objects that you would like to deploy from one environment to another rather than deploying the entire database."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated.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."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"We would be happy to see in next versions the ability to return several parameters from jobs. Now, jobs can return just one parameter. If they could return several parameters, that would be great."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"In terms of intermediate storage, we have some challenges, especially with customers who store data in intermediate locations."
"The interface needs improvement."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"Customization could be better."
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while WhereScape RED is rated 8.2. 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 WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Matillion ETL and Denodo.
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