What is our primary use case?
Zaloni is actually a big data platform management tool. It is extensively used. They have different connectors. You can start ingesting your batch and you can also use real-time streaming, but we haven't used that component. We have used it mostly for batch ingestions. It's not a single product. It has multiple pieces within itself. I think most of them are plug-and-play. We are using the enterprise version of Zaloni.Pros and Cons
- "You can create a lot of ingestions based on the file levels or based on the time."
- "The major pain point with Zaloni is that their exception handling is not good. If any event happens, it doesn't tell you at which point it failed and it doesn't tell the operations team how they should take corrective actions unless you call Zaloni and then identify the issues. That is one issue."
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend Zaloni. But before choosing they should evaluate different options so they know which one is better. Even though we have similar products, some products are good in one aspect, some are not good in others. Take the example of Informatica. Informatica is very good for database warehousing platforms. But when it comes to big data and when you have to input the data into big data then it has a lot of difficulties. Then I had to use another component that was better in handling the data. So it's based on the need. What is your objective and where are you pulling out the data? If…