We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and JumpMind SymmetricDS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica, Alation, SAP and others in Metadata Management."The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"The solution scales well."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"It is fully featured. It has allowed me to do everything I wanted to do."
"This solution is hard to set up and its interface is not user-friendly. It's also not as stable, and the technical support takes a lot of time to solve simple problems."
"They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"The user interface could improve. We are looking at some cloud-based databases, and I don't think they support that."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 12 reviews while JumpMind SymmetricDS is ranked 13th in Data Replication. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.4, while JumpMind SymmetricDS is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JumpMind SymmetricDS writes "Excellent change data capture utility for distributed multi site environment". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo, whereas JumpMind SymmetricDS is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS Database Migration Service, SSIS, Confluent and Azure Data Factory.
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