Share your experience using CData Sync

My main use case for Uplynk is live channels around the clock. Since we're in the television business, we're constantly showcasing shows, and it's a continuous operation.

Uplynk's best features are its stability and its capacity to handle high volumes of traffic. The stability that stands out most to me is the ability to handle traffic spikes, which I would say is the best feature.

Uplynk has positively impacted our organization by bringing us more viewership. It does not glitch and stays stable during spikes in viewership. We've seen approximately a 15 to 20 percent increase in viewership because there's no lag and nothing fails. It's constant, so viewership increased. It allowed our viewers to have trust in what we were providing due to the software.

To improve Uplynk, it should be made more user-friendly, as it takes a lot of moving pieces to make it work. Uplynk is very complex software with many moving pieces. If you're a big company, Uplynk is for you. If you're a small company, consider YouTube Stream and similar software because you're not at the scale yet to be using Uplynk.

I have been using Uplynk for a few years, but my company has been using it for probably ten years.

Uplynk is very stable. Uplynk's scalability is very high and very well scalable.

Uplynk's customer support is amazing, especially when you run into problems. They know everything about their product and they're always willing to support and stay on top of it with you to ensure that you're able to fix the issue at hand.

I wasn't a part of the pricing, setup cost, and licensing discussions, but from what I heard from my colleagues, they said it was really good and it was fair, so they went with that.

Uplynk is deployed in my organization on-premises and is fully on-site.

Uplynk supports our business continuity or disaster recovery plans because it's really well protected and it doesn't lag or crash when there's a spike in all areas. Uplynk helps us comply with regulatory requirements in our industry by keeping us live.

Uplynk integrates really well with other systems or tools we use. You need a whole team to really run Uplynk because there are so many moving pieces, the code, the app, and other components. My experience with Uplynk's analytics or reporting capabilities is that they are especially helpful to update the teams and our stakeholders.

I would describe Uplynk's flexibility or customization options as really easy, really customizable, and it integrates in many areas. Uplynk helps me deliver content to different devices or platforms by allowing us to upload on and stay live on tablets, computers, and televisions. It allows us to stay live to get those viewerships.

Uplynk is a software that saves time, but you need a solid team to run Uplynk to ensure viewership and everything is moving because there are many pieces to keep. I advise others looking into using Uplynk that it takes many different areas: coding, integration, APIs, and all that. It takes a team to run it, and you need to be a big company. If you're streaming and doing all that at a big scale, use it. If you're on a smaller scale, Uplynk is going to be really hard for you to manage. It's not something that's simple; just use the ones that are basic out there if you're an influencer and things like that. I would rate this product a nine overall.

The main use case is that the stack is MongoDB, with the main data source from Mongo. CData Sync comes as a third party that is layered on Mongo.

Power BI is directly connected to CData Sync, so we can stream the data from Mongo and visualize it.

The other unique thing about our use case is that aside from streaming live transactional data for informed decisions, we are in multiple markets at the moment in several African countries. This has been challenging because streaming data for different currencies and different local currencies, then accumulating everything in USD, makes everything look muddled up. However, it has been good with CData Sync since we can have everything in one currency.

The beautiful thing about CData Sync is that you can preview the data directly on their UI. The data that is settled in the database can be previewed on CData Sync before actually ingesting it into the BI tool.

That is one feature I appreciate. You can actually pick a particular column or drop a particular column. CData Sync's preview feature speeds up my workflow because at that layer of preview, I already know what I want into my pipeline and what I don't want. The SQL query at that level would also help to filter whatever I don't want.

There are times when you are streaming and trying to connect that CData Sync fails. However, the team has been very helpful. There is a particular technical support person that has usually come to my aid whenever there are issues. For improvement, I think the turnaround time for support can increase, especially on weekends.

I want to discuss the security of CData Sync. It is not something I actually have visibility to, but I think if CData Sync could give users the opportunity to put their own security layer on this, that would be beneficial. If CData Sync is compromised, who do we hold responsible? So security is an area for improvement.

CData Sync's interface is good. For integration with other tools, I think CData Sync could do well by integrating with other providers, especially AI agents so that one can easily integrate CData Sync to more agents out there.

I have been using CData Sync for about four months.

CData Sync is stable. Our transactional data is not a lot so far, so I can say CData Sync is stable.

For CData Sync data scalability regarding the increasing amount of data, our data is not a lot right now, so I think CData Sync handles it perfectly. Maybe later when transactional data grows significantly, we might be able to ask for better plans, especially regarding a scalable plan.

Customer support is great. Sonja is a great helper. Technical support from David has been helpful. I can tell you that CData Sync is stable and their customer support is trying.

For customer support at CData Sync, I would give them an eight. I would not give them a ten because on weekends the reply is slow. Another thing I thought about is they need to consider users that are not in their region. I think it is a time difference issue.

I did not purchase CData Sync through the AWS Marketplace. I saw CData Sync's ad on LinkedIn. I then reached out to a particular agent. That agent put me through their customer support team. That agent sent me an email and copied their team members. Since then, we have been discussing.

We had been doing everything manually. We saw that the manual way was not scalable. We then had to go the automation route.

I think the startup cost is fine for us.

I was able to integrate CData Sync easily with the help of CData Sync's technical staff.

Money has been saved with CData Sync. If we had gone through the route of a larger engineering effort for our pipeline, we would have spent more. In spending more, we might also have needed to employ a data engineer. So we have saved money on the technical side and on the staffing side. As an analyst, I was able to handle the integration.

For startup cost, I think it is still fair. Although we are a startup with a lean budget, if the startup cost was expensive, we might not have considered CData Sync at all.

We thought about using Zapier or other automation tools. We could have automatically used Selenium to download and scrape web pages and then store them in Google Drive. That is how we did it before.

I gave CData Sync a rating of seven because I have weighed the downsides and the upsides. CData Sync is solving my use case and I am able to use it, which already puts it past five. The usefulness and the simplicity in the technicality are things I also love about CData Sync, so that adds one to the five, making six. Looking at everything overall, including the support, the cost, and everything else, that makes it seven. I think seven is a good rating for me.