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Airbyte Cloud vs SAP Replication Server comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Airbyte Cloud
Ranking in Data Integration
20th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
4.5
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (15th)
SAP Replication Server
Ranking in Data Integration
54th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Database Development and Management (21st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Airbyte Cloud is 0.7%. The mindshare of SAP Replication Server is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Airbyte Cloud0.7%
SAP Replication Server0.9%
Other98.4%
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

ParthasarathyT - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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.
GagandeepSingh3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Good at handling replication, provides cross-database replication but SAP can provide better support for cross-database replication to newer technologies
SAP can provide better support for cross-database replication to newer technologies. The product supports Oracle, but I am not aware of what other technologies it supports. If someone wants to replicate their data from Sybase to a newer technology for data warehousing or other purposes, it would be better if they supported those.

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 by being very helpful and speeding up our work environment."
"Airbyte Cloud has positively impacted my organization as it was a fairly easy and low-cost way of integrating those external data sources with our overall data ecosystem."
"Airbyte Cloud is a strong tool for extracting and loading data from various sources to a data warehouse, which I am eager to leverage since I do not have to build my own custom extractors."
"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."
"Airbyte Cloud has positively impacted my organization by reducing the manpower required for managing the underlying resources of a data sync."
"Since using Airbyte Cloud, we save approximately seventy to seventy-five percent of the time our data team was spending on manual data preparation."
"One significant benefit for us is reducing the amount of custom pipeline maintenance."
"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."
"Currently, there is a Hadoop-based infrastructure with several engineers to maintain the data, and now, using SAP Replication Server, it has become automatic and requires fewer people to put data in the data warehouse."
"It speeds up the performance in terms of how fast you are able to access the data, look at it, get it reported to you, and send it to somebody. It also reduces the amount of storage."
"SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy."
"We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done."
"The most valuable thing about this product is that it replicates data between SAP databases (ASE to IQ) very successfully."
"This product has a catalog with the location of all the objects which were replicated, and it's very simple to maintain."
"SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience."
"It's pretty good at handling replication, even under high load. It also provides cross-database replication, for example, from Sybase to Oracle."
 

Cons

"There are improvements that can be done to move it on a higher scale and maybe get used across the industry, which it lacks right now, and even the kind of support; otherwise, it is a good tool."
"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."
"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."
"Airbyte Cloud could be improved because the documentation and setup manual are quite limited."
"I give it an eight because of error messages. If they solve some error messages, that would help significantly."
"I think Airbyte Cloud can be improved by adding more connectors and more customizable connectors."
"One challenge I have faced recently in Airbyte Cloud is occasional connector sync failure that requires troubleshooting through logs."
"I think Airbyte Cloud can be improved in terms of its subscription rigidity, particularly for small business owners who want a managed platform connecting their data sources with DBT runs while keeping costs to a bare minimum."
"Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see."
"The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades."
"If someone wants to replicate their data from Sybase to a newer technology for data warehousing or other purposes, it would be better if they supported those."
"There is a need to improve performance in high transactional processes."
"It's a very expensive solution."
"It's complex. It's necessary to understand a little about infrastructure, like network LAN and VLAN environment."
"I would like to see it become mobile-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"You can pick one of the hosted cloud services as opposed to owning it and doing it yourself. Your cost of ownership on the hardware, the data storage, and the maintenance all go down. It depends on what service you use."
"It's a very expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
22%
Computer Software Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Airbyte Cloud?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I did not deal with the billing side of Airbyte Cloud, but I think the overall cost was relatively low, so I don't think we had any iss...
What needs improvement with Airbyte Cloud?
The areas for improvement could be more detailed error logs. The error logs that are coming are not very comprehensive, but they could provide more detailed error messages. Additionally, an enhance...
What is your primary use case for Airbyte Cloud?
I use Airbyte Cloud primarily for data integration and ETL workflows between different systems and destination databases. My setup is straightforward with Airbyte Cloud, and I use it for creating n...
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Also Known As

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Sybase Replication Server
 

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Sample Customers

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Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone
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