Fivetran Scalability

Erik Jones - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of BI and Analytics at HyperScience

Fivetran is scalable. It can get expensive if you're sending a lot of data through Fivetran, but it has scaled well within our company. We have not had any issues with scaling and Fivetran continues to add connectors that we make use of. For us, Fivetran has been able to scale both in terms of the data we bring into our warehouse and the amount of data that we use as well. 

We have one direct user of Fivetran, 250 indirect users.

I'm the only direct user of Fivetran, but everyone else at the company who uses data that's managed by Fivetran is an indirect users.

We just expanded our use of Fivetran last week. We added NetSuite last week. Our increase in usage will depend on new connectors that Fivetran releases over time.

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Radovan Bacovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable. 

We are not the biggest company so we do not have a high data demand. We are growing rapidly but for our use cases and scale, the solution is more than sufficient. 

It is more about how you stay cost effective than how the solution scales. 

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Cledwyn Menezes - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Celebal Technologies

It is a scalable solution that is recommended for only enterprise companies because small and medium companies do not have the expertise and money to run Fivetran.

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AS
Associate Data Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

Fivetran can handle large amounts of data. 

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Stephen Ebrey - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Consultant at Omaze

It's scalable. We have six users who are using this solution. In terms of our plans to increase its usage, if we start using additional SaaS tools, we will add them to Fivetran.

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JM
Assistance Vice President for Data managment at Capgemini

We are a large enterprise, but it also seems suitable for small and medium enterprises.

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SP
Database Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We like its scalability.

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AS
Associate Data Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

Fivetran is a scalable product that operates on a pay-as-you-go model, so we must be mindful of the potential for building a connector to it. I have not encountered this issue personally, but I am aware of people in my organization whose clients have experienced similar problems due to its scalability. Currently, we are migrating around 1000 rows per week. If someone were to run a full day, we might migrate 10,000 rows, which could consume up to 5000 credits for Fivetran in a week. I am uncertain of the dollar value of these credits, but it was estimated that they would last two months, yet they were used up in a week. Additionally, Fivetran does not have a resource monitoring feature, so we can monitor how much it has charged us, but we cannot set a limit, such as $2,000, to stop the usage.

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KK
Sr. Director of BI and Analytics at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is very scalable. In terms of the breadth of connections and things like that, it's definitely there. In terms of volumes, they're not necessarily in charge of the platforms themselves. For instance, Fivetran doesn't control the speed of our databases, but as long as it's working in concert with customer systems, it can work well. I think there's just some work that needs to be done in terms of tuning those capabilities so that it remains consistently scalable. For instance, when we're doing syncing on PostgreSQL and things like that, there's certain features and flags that you can use to make the process faster, so there's some coordination there. Other than that, once it's set up, it's usually pretty good.

On a daily basis, we have four or five people using it in the business intelligence and analytics area. The SRE team uses it, and I think sometimes software engineering uses it if they want to ingest data from other systems. Also, our business intelligence engineers and the site reliability engineer, plus data engineers use it as well.

The solution does require maintenance right now. Sometimes there will be alerts that come up in the system if you have schema drift or something like that. Usually, the business intelligence engineers manage that.

We use the solution as our primary ingest for all the data into warehouse. We're looking to expand it. We're on Redshift, but we have another company that uses Azure and the SQL server and Synapse, so we're planning on expanding use there as well.

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FB
Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The tool’s scalability is very good.

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Vijayant Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Architect at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Five people use the solution in our organization. We need two people to maintain the tool.

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MR
Principal Data Engineer at Turing

The scalability will directly relate to the plan you're on. It will be very important to see that the provisioning in compute and the provisioning you have to run workflows and jobs will also be directly related to your use case. Managing scalability in that way is a bit complex, but you get a lot of support from Fivetran.

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John Parker - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Data Science and Strategy at Innive Inc

The product's scalability is high. 

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ZP
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

HVR Software is scalable.

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it_user1005216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The way we are using it, I think the solution's level of scalability is sufficient for us. We didn't really need anything bigger. For us, it's been fine so far. We have about 30-40 users. There's no need for us to increase usage at this point.

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