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Airbyte Cloud vs PerfectScale comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Airbyte Cloud
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (44th), Cloud Data Integration (24th)
PerfectScale
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
1.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (25th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Airbyte Cloud and PerfectScale aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Airbyte Cloud is designed for Cloud Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 0.7%.
PerfectScale, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Cost Management, holds 1.4% mindshare, up 0.3% since last year.
Cloud Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Airbyte Cloud0.7%
AWS Glue7.6%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)6.7%
Other85.0%
Cloud Data Integration
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PerfectScale1.4%
IBM Turbonomic5.9%
Cloudability5.4%
Other87.3%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

ParthasarathyT - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate Infrastructure at Publicis Sapient
Centralized data pipelines have reduced costs and now power faster analytics and reporting
The best features Airbyte Cloud offers include the centralization of data for analytics by combining data from SaaS tools, databases, and APIs into one place. It enables production models, BI reporting, and ML use cases. Airbyte Cloud has a huge connector ecosystem with over 600 connectors across SaaS tools, databases, apps, and platforms that can be integrated. Faster integration requires less engineering work. Automation and reliability are significant features, allowing me to schedule syncs daily with auto-retry, logging, and alerting capabilities. Incremental updates such as CDC for efficiency are available. Airbyte Cloud is a managed cloud solution with no infrastructure worries, as everything is managed. It is customizable, and the significant difference is that we have full control. It is also more cost-effective than competitors.Airbyte Cloud has positively impacted my organization by reducing the manpower required for managing the underlying resources of a data sync. It directly performs the job that a database engineer would do by managing a huge connector ecosystem with over 600 connectors across SaaS tools and databases, enabling faster integration. Whenever new data arrives, it automatically syncs to the destination source without requiring any engineer to manually copy or replicate the data. This approach helps our organization significantly.
reviewer2750058 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps & FinOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Gain visibility into Kubernetes clusters and optimize resource allocation based on historical data
I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services. They should implement this in their autoscaler to make it more useful in scenarios that require immediate scaling up or down. They should also offer more options for visualizing graphs in different ways, such as tabular views.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Airbyte Cloud has positively impacted our organization because we were looking for multiple products and ended up choosing Airbyte because it is easy to use and set up."
"The best features Airbyte Cloud offers are the pipelines we are building, which are seamless and just a drag and drop, no-code, low-code platform."
"Since using Airbyte Cloud, we save approximately seventy to seventy-five percent of the time our data team was spending on manual data preparation."
"Airbyte Cloud has positively impacted our organization by being very helpful and speeding up our work environment."
"Airbyte Cloud has impacted us very positively in the perspective of faster time to data for analytics teams."
"Airbyte Cloud has positively impacted my organization by reducing the manpower required for managing the underlying resources of a data sync."
"My advice to others considering Airbyte Cloud is that they should use it because it is very helpful and saves a lot of time in managing day-to-day tasks."
"One significant benefit for us is reducing the amount of custom pipeline maintenance."
"The cluster and workload autoscaler gives us the ability to have control over all the workloads' resources instead of managing them one by one."
"Automated resource optimization using different policies based on the environment enabled the organization to achieve infrastructure cost savings."
"PerfectScale made our Kubernetes optimization effortless; it found wasted resources, lowered our cloud costs, and improved performance almost instantly."
 

Cons

"Airbyte Cloud does have some limitations, particularly in terms of connector quality, as it varies, and not every connector has the same maturity level since many are community-driven."
"Airbyte Cloud can be improved because it looks good so far, but based on the AI coming, they have to catch up with AI agents."
"Though Airbyte Cloud is a mature product, there is room for improvement. One limitation is that a sync being marked successful does not necessarily mean the data is correct."
"Airbyte Cloud could be improved because the documentation and setup manual are quite limited."
"I think Airbyte Cloud can be improved by adding more connectors and more customizable connectors."
"My suggestion for improvement would mainly be around areas that could be enhanced: error debugging depth in the UI, more granular visibility into why a sync failed, and better handling or guidance around schema changes when they happen frequently in source systems."
"I give it an eight because of error messages. If they solve some error messages, that would help significantly."
"With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition."
"At the beginning, the support was not very impressive."
"I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
36%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
Insurance Company
32%
Construction Company
27%
Healthcare Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Large Enterprise4
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Airbyte Cloud?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good.
What needs improvement with Airbyte Cloud?
Airbyte Cloud can be improved because it looks good so far, but based on the AI coming, they have to catch up with AI agents. Everything seems to be going through AI, so that is a consideration for...
What is your primary use case for Airbyte Cloud?
Airbyte Cloud's main use case for our organization is to optimize our cost. A specific example of how we're using Airbyte Cloud to optimize costs is that we have some tools, and they also help us t...
What needs improvement with PerfectScale?
With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition.
 

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