We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and CloverDX Designer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."When it comes to our business requirements, this solution has worked well for us. However, we have not stretched it to the limit."
"I like how you can create your own pipeline in your space and reuse those creations. You can collaborate with other people who want to use your code."
"Most of our customers are Microsoft shops and prefer Azure Data Factory because they have good licensing options and a trust factor with Microsoft."
"Data Factory itself is great. It's pretty straightforward. You can easily add sources, join and lookup information, etc. The ease of use is pretty good."
"One of the most valuable features of Azure Data Factory is the drag-and-drop interface. This helps with workflow management because we can just drag any tables or data sources we need. Because of how easy it is to drag and drop, we can deliver things very quickly. It's more customizable through visual effect."
"I am one hundred percent happy with the stability."
"I like that it's a monolithic data platform. This is why we propose these solutions."
"From my experience so far, the best feature is the ability to copy data to any environment. We have 100 connects and we can connect them to the system and copy the data from its respective system to any environment. That is the best feature."
"Its simplicity and the way it handles graphs are the most valuable features."
"The deployment should be easier."
"It would be better if it had machine learning capabilities."
"Azure Data Factory's pricing in terms of utilization could be improved."
"Azure Data Factory can improve by having support in the drivers for change data capture."
"Azure Data Factory could benefit from improvements in its monitoring capabilities to provide a more robust feature set. Enhancing the ease of deployment to higher environments within Azure DevOps would be beneficial, as the current process often requires extensive scripting and pipeline development. It is also known for the flexibility of the data flow feature, particularly in supporting more dynamic data-driven architectures. These enhancements would contribute to a more seamless and efficient workflow within GitLab."
"Occasionally, there are problems within Microsoft itself that impacts the Data Factory and causes it to fail."
"On the UI side, they could make it a little more intuitive in terms of how to add the radius components. Somebody who has been working with tools like Informatica or DataStage gets very used to how the UI looks and feels."
"The number of standard adaptors could be extended further."
"If I could give any advice to the guys who are developing it, I would suggest them to really look at the enterprise features, such as being able to log what's going on, being able to capture the current state of processing, and being able to recover from error situations. So, there should be a focus on logging, recoverability, and monitoring. We should be able to monitor what's going on, and in case of any issues, we should be able to recover and restart processing and other things. For scalability and performance, I would probably suggest the Pushdown feature so that you can do the transformation directly on the data source. You do not need to do that calculation within the ETL server. For this, you should be aware of the type of data because each database or kind of storage, such as Hadoop, has its own ANSI standard or language, such as SQL. Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM have their own language. Based on the feedback that I have got, its initial setup takes some time. It could perhaps be simpler."
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Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while CloverDX Designer is ranked 68th in Data Integration. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while CloverDX Designer is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CloverDX Designer writes "Simple, stable, and allows us to handle data from various sources, but needs enterprise features for logging, recoverability, and monitoring". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas CloverDX Designer is most compared with .
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