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We performed a comparison between Matillion ETL and Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"It has good integrations with Amazon Redshift and other AWS services.""Matillion ETL helps manage data movement, ingestion, and transformation through pipelines.""The technical support treats us well. They already have a support portal, and they are responsive, which helps.""It has helped us to get onto the cloud quickly.""The loading of data is the most valuable feature of Matillion ETL.""The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the ETL. The solution is open-source which provides advantages, such as good performance and high efficiency. Additionally, it supports three data types which eliminates predefining the data, and we can write script models in Python.""Matillion ETL has great Git integration that is perfect and convenient to use.""It's been able to do everything we require."

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"Provides a good open source option.""Data transformation within Pentaho is a nice feature that they have and that I value.""Flexible deployment, in any environment, is very important to us. That is the key reason why we ended up with these tools. Because we have a very highly secure environment, we must be able to install it in multiple environments on multiple different servers. The fact that we could use the same tool in all our environments, on-prem and in the cloud, was very important to us.""It's very simple compared to other products out there.""Pentaho Data Integration is quite simple to learn, and there is a lot of information available online.""We can schedule job execution in the BA Server, which is the front-end product we're using right now. That scheduling interface is nice.""One of the most valuable features is the ability to create many API integrations. I'm always working with advertising agents and using Facebook and Instagram to do campaigns. We use Pentaho to get the results from these campaigns and to create dashboards to analyze the results.""One of the valuable features is the ability to use PL/SQL statements inside the data transformations and jobs."

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Cons
"Going forward, I would like them to add custom jobs, since we still have to run these outside of Matillion.""Ideally, I would like it to integrate with Secrets Manager as well as the AWS.""I found some of the more complex aspects of ETL challenging, but I grasped the concepts fairly quickly.""While the UI is good, it could be improved in its efficiency and made easier to use.""It needs integration with more data sources.""It can have multi-environment support. We should be able to deploy it in different environments. Its integration with SAP connection is not so nice, which should be improved. It can also support an on-prem database.""Matillion’s on-premises capabilities don’t allow you to build something customized.""Unlike Snowflake which automatically takes care of upgrading to the latest version and includes additional features, with Matillion ETL we need to do this ourselves."

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"​There is not a data quality or MDM solution in the Pentaho DI suite.​""The product needs more plugins.""If you develop it on MacBook, it'll be quite a hassle.""I would like to see improvements made for real-time data processing.""Although it is a low-code solution with a graphical interface, often the error messages that you get are of the type that a developer would be happy with. You get a big stack of red text and Java errors displayed on the screen, and less technical people can get intimidated by that. It can be a bit intimidating to get a wall of red error messages displayed. Other graphical tools that are focused at the power user level provide a much more user-friendly experience in dealing with your exceptions and guiding the user into where they've made the mistake.""It could be better integrated with programming languages, like Python and R. Right now, if I want to run a Python code on one of my ETLs, it is a bit difficult to do. It would be great if we have some modules where we could code directly in a Python language. We don't really have a way to run Python code natively.""A big problem after deploying something that we do in Lumada is with Git. You get a binary file to do a code review. So, if you need to do a review, you have to take pictures of the screen to show each step. That is the biggest bug if you are using Git.""One thing that I don't like, just a little, is the backward compatibility."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I have heard from my manager and other higher ups, "This product is cheaper than other things on the market," and they have done the research."
  • "It is cost-effective. Based on our use case, it's efficient and cheap. It saves a lot of money and our upfront costs are less."
  • "The prices needs to be lower."
  • "It was very easy to purchase through the AWS Marketplace, but it was also expensive."
  • "Purchasing it through the AWS Marketplace is pretty convenient. There is a little bit of back and forth in terms of the licensing based on the machine size, but it seems to have worked out well. it is convenient to have it all as part of our AWS billing."
  • "It is not necessarily a cheap solution. However, it's reasonable priced, especially with the smaller machines that we run it on."
  • "The AWS pricing and licensing are a cost-effective solution for data integration needs."
  • "It was procured through the AWS Marketplace because it keeps things simple. They offer retail-like checkout and bill through your existing Amazon Web Services account."
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  • "There is a good open source option (Community Edition)​."
  • "The price of the regular version is not reasonable and it should be lower."
  • "Sometimes we provide the licenses or the customer can procure their own licenses. Previously, we had an enterprise license. Currently, we are on a community license as this is adequate for our needs."
  • "It does seem a bit expensive compared to the serverless product offering. Tools, such as Server Integration Services, are "almost" free with a database engine. It is comparable to products like Alteryx, which is also very expensive."
  • "I think Lumada's price is fair compared to some of the others, like BusinessObjects, which is was the other thing that I used at my previous job. BusinessObject's price was more reasonable before SAP acquired it. They jacked the price up significantly. Oracle's OBIEE tool was also prohibitively expensive."
  • "When we first started with it, it was much cheaper. It has gone up drastically, especially since Hitachi bought out Pentaho."
  • "The cost of these types of solutions are expensive. So, we really appreciate what we get for our money. Though, we don't think of the solution as a top-of-the-line solution or anything like that."
  • "The pricing has been pretty good. I'm used to using everything open-source or freeware-based. I understand that organizations need to make sure that the solutions are secure, and that's basically where I hit a roadblock in my current organization. They needed to ensure that we had a license and we had a secure way of accessing it so that no outside parties could get access to our data, but in terms of pricing, considering how much other teams are spending on cloud solutions or even their existing solutions, its price point is pretty good. At this time, there are no additional costs. We just have the licensing fees."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It is an incredibly user-friendly and intuitive tool, making the learning curve quite smooth
    Top Answer:We pay $5.40 per EC2 running hour, and we can reduce costs by stopping and starting the EC2 instances strategically. For instance, in our production environment, we run it for sixteen hours a day… more »
    Top Answer:There's room for improvement in how it handles data streaming capabilities. Our main challenge currently is that Matillion runs on an EC2 instance, limiting us to running only two processes… more »
    Top Answer:Hi Rajneesh yes here is the feature comparison between the community and enterprise edition :… more »
    Top Answer: In my opinion, the reporting side of this tool needs serious improvements. In my previous company, we worked with Hitachi Lumada Data Integration and while it does a good job for what it’s worth, it… more »
    Top Answer:My company has used this product to transform data from databases, CSV files, and flat files. It really does a good job. We were most satisfied with the results in terms of how many people could use… more »
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    Also Known As
    Matillion ETL for Redshift, Matillion ETL for Snowflake, Matillion ETL for BigQuery
    Hitachi Lumada Data Integration, Kettle, Pentaho Data Integration
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    Overview

    Matillion ETL is a powerful tool for extracting, transforming, and loading large amounts of data from various sources into cloud data warehouses like Snowflake. Its ability to load data dynamically and efficiently using metadata is a standout feature, as is its open-source ETL with good performance and high efficiency. 

    The solution has a graphical interface for jobs, is easily adjustable and extensible, and allows for scheduling and error reporting. Matillion ETL has helped organizations move to a cloud-based solution, bridge the gap between on-premises and on-cloud, and perform complex migration projects.

    Pentaho Data Integration stands as a versatile platform designed to cater to the data integration and analytics needs of organizations, regardless of their size. This powerful solution is the go-to choice for businesses seeking to seamlessly integrate data from diverse sources, including databases, files, and applications. Pentaho Data Integration facilitates the essential tasks of cleaning and transforming data, ensuring it's primed for meaningful analysis. With a wide array of tools for data mining, machine learning, and statistical analysis, Pentaho Data Integration empowers organizations to glean valuable insights from their data. What sets Pentaho Data Integration apart is its maturity and a vibrant community of users and developers, making it a reliable and cost-effective option. Pentaho Data Integration offers a range of features, including a comprehensive ETL toolkit, data cleaning and transformation capabilities, robust data analysis tools, and seamless deployment options for data integration and analytics solutions, making it a go-to solution for organizations seeking to harness the power of their data.

    Sample Customers
    Thrive Market, MarketBot, PWC, Axtria, Field Nation, GE, Superdry, Quantcast, Lightbox, EDF Energy, Finn Air, IPRO, Twist, Penn National Gaming Inc
    66Controls, Providential Revenue Agency of Ro Negro, NOAA Information Systems, Swiss Real Estate Institute
    Top Industries
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    Manufacturing Company36%
    Financial Services Firm36%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Computer Software Company9%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Healthcare Company19%
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Government7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
    Large Enterprise41%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise31%
    Large Enterprise42%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    Matillion ETL vs. Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics
    March 2024
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    Matillion ETL is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Integration with 22 reviews while Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is ranked 15th in Data Integration with 48 reviews. Matillion ETL is rated 8.6, while Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Matillion ETL writes "Efficient data integration and transformation with seamless cloud-native integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics writes "It's flexible and can do almost anything I want it to do". Matillion ETL is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and SSIS, whereas Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Talend Open Studio, AWS Glue and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our Matillion ETL vs. Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics report.

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