Denodo vs Equalum comparison

Denodo and Google are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Denodo is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.9, while Google is ranked #61. Denodo holds a 1.5% mindshare in DI, compared to Google’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Denodo users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Google users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Denodo and Equalum are key competitors in the data integration and virtualization space. Denodo gains an edge with its advanced data virtualization capabilities, while Equalum stands out with its thorough CDC replication and ease of use.

Features: Denodo is recognized for its data virtualization, which connects various data sources without moving data, offering traceability and governance. It also excels in data extraction, semantic layers, and performance enhancements. Equalum provides a unified platform for CDC replication, streaming, and batch ETL processes, leveraging Kafka and Spark for seamless data streaming and integration. Its no-code interface simplifies complex tasks, making it a favored option for data migration.

Room for Improvement: Denodo’s data catalog requires refinement for enhanced metadata integration. Users mention difficulties with connectivity, training, and inconsistent support, alongside performance issues in handling large data views. Equalum needs additional connectors for comprehensive data source access and could benefit from better documentation and scheduling utilities. Its reliance on command-line operations hampers an otherwise robust GUI strategy.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Denodo supports on-premises, hybrid, and cloud deployments, but customer service experiences vary, with some users facing slow response issues. Equalum functions effectively in both on-premises and cloud settings, offering direct access to developers for immediate problem resolution, enhancing customer satisfaction.

Pricing and ROI: Denodo’s costs, tied to CPU usage, range from moderate to high, yet it delivers substantial ROI through data processing and operational efficiencies. Equalum's pricing is competitive against large vendors but higher than local solutions. Its comprehensive feature set ensures time savings and reduced development cycles, contributing to a strong ROI, although additional service costs may occur.

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Categories and Ranking

Denodo

Ranking in Data Integration

8th

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Virtualization (1st), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (3rd), AI Data Analysis (4th)

Equalum

Ranking in Data Integration

61st

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

27th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Replication (18th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Denodo is 1.5%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Equalum is 0.6%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Denodo	1.5%
Equalum	0.6%
Other	97.9%

Data Integration

Featured Reviews

Douglas Camargo

Senior Backend Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees

Has simplified multi-database querying and accelerated solution delivery with minimal setup

Denodo offers a great query language, the VQL, which was very easy to understand for someone that only knows SQL. It was easy to work with, and it was easy to integrate various types of databases in general. The usability of the platform is very great. The federated queries were also a feature that I used a lot. The easy usability of Denodo helped my work and made things easier for productivity. We were able to ship code faster than if we needed to use another type of data visualization tool or even an ETL. When we have multiple databases, the standard or common approach is just to have an ETL that matches the data, and we need to write this whole ETL. With Denodo, we can simplify this whole work to a few queries or setups in the databases and just make a few queries. This was actually easier, and it was faster to deliver a solution for a client instead of building a whole ETL pipeline or simply backfilling one database in another. Denodo simplifies your work and helps you ship code or ship solutions in a faster way. I really like the UI that Denodo has on the web app version. It was very simple and actually very beautiful to see. For a complicated program, it was very easy to understand how it works, even for someone who is just approaching the data engineering career or side of the programming language.

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Joel Buck

Director of Enterprise Architecture at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

There is no better product for CDC and streaming on Kafka

The Equalum user interface is extremely easy to use. I would rank it really highly on user-friendliness. The only issue with the user interface is it doesn't supply everything that you need for somebody who has to work with Equalum. For example, when you get deep into development, there are many areas where you have to go to the command line to do things and the Equalum user interface does not have that functionality. The deployment of their flows needs improvement. It doesn't work with a typical Git branching and CI/CD deployment strategy. If you have multiple projects, all working in one Equalum environment, separating out their work is something that you have to design into your implementation, as opposed to baked into the product.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The ability to connect to a lot of different sources."

"While we may not be using all the features of Denodo at this time, we have found the data virtualization features to be very useful in helping us connect our data sources together, bringing all our data into one platform."

"It is a very stable solution."

"Denodo provides high reliability, with features like vertical scaling, horizontal scaling, and failover nodes."

"Denodo makes it easy to export data as a service or data link to other services."

"The ability to transfer data is very valuable."

"Denodo provides several server connectivity options with other tools such as ODPC and UDPC. It supports API integrations, allowing integration with a wide range of databases using different technologies, including NoSQL and relational databases."

"The data abstraction is the most valuable feature."

More Denodo pros

"All our architectural use cases are on a single platform, not multiple platforms. You don't have to dump into different modules because it is the same module everywhere."

"It's a really powerful platform in terms of the combination of technologies they've developed and integrated together, out-of-the-box. The combination of Kafka and Spark is, we believe, quite unique, combined with CDC capabilities. And then, of course, there are the performance aspects. As an overall package, it's a very powerful data integration, migration, and replication tool."

"It's got it all, from end-to-end. It's the glue. There are a lot of other products out there, good products, but there's always a little bit of something missing from the other products. Equalum did its research well and understood the requirements of large enterprise and governments in terms of one tool to rule them all, from a data migration integration perspective."

"I found two features in Equalum that I consider the most valuable. One is that Equalum is a no-code tool. You can do your activities on its graphical interface, which doesn't require complex knowledge of extracting, changing, or loading data. Another feature of Equalum that I like the most is that it monitors the data transfers and tells you if there's any issue so that you can quickly check and correct it. Equalum also tells you where the problem lies, for example, if it's a hardware or communication issue."

"Equalum provides a single platform for core architectural use cases, including CDC replication, streaming ETL, and batch ETL. That is important to our clients because there is no other single-focus product that covers these areas in that much detail, and with this many features on the platform. The fact that they are single-minded and focused on CDC and ETL makes this such a rich solution. Other solutions cover these things a little bit in their multi-function products, but they don't go as deep."

"Equalum is real-time. If you are moving from an overnight process to a real-time process, there is always a difference in what reports and analytics show compared to what our operational system shows. Some of our organizations, especially finance, don't want those differences to be shown. Therefore, going to a real-time environment makes the data in one place match the data in another place. Data accuracy is almost instantaneous with this tool."

"Equalum has resulted in system performance improvements in our organization. Now, I am ingressing data off of multiple S3 sources, doing data processing, and formatting a schema. This would usually take me a couple of days, but now it takes me hours."

"The main impact for Oracle LogMiner is the performance. Performance is drastically reduced if you use the solution’s Oracle Binary Log Parser. So, if we have 60 million records, initially it used to take a minute. Now, it takes a second to do synchronization from the source and target tables."

Cons

"Monitoring event logs can be improved. In the older version, there was a monitoring schedule to get event reports and properly audit the reports. In the newer version, it is not there, and we have to manually configure data and audit events."

"The integration could use improvement, it's a lot of non-speed line processes that we have discovered, in the country. The configurations could use a lot more improvement."

"The cache configuration is more complicated."

"Data transformation must be improved."

"Performance management could be improved."

"The solution is slow when there are many virtualization layers."

"The dropdown menus feel antiquated to me, and the administrative portals need improvement."

"In cases where there are multiple virtualizations—such as reading from one Denodo view that is virtualized, and from that view there's also virtualization, and another team is reading from that view—if multiple virtualizations happen with no caching in between, it becomes slow."

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"There is not enough proven integration with other vendors. That is what needs to be worked on. Equalum hasn't tested anything between vendors, which worries our clients. We need more proven vendor integration. It is an expensive product and it needs to support a multi-vendor approach."

"If you need to use the basic features of Equalum, for example, you don't even need data integration, then many competitors in the market can give you basic features. For instance, if you need batch ETL, you can pick among solutions in the market that have been around longer than Equalum. What needs improvement in Equalum is replication, as it could be faster. Equalum also needs better integration with specific databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server."

"I should be able to see only my project versus somebody else's garbage. That is something that would be good in future. Right now, the security is by tenants, but I would like to have it by project, e.g., this project has this source and flows in these streams, and I have access to this on this site."

"Their UI could use some work. Also, they could make it just a little faster to get around their user interface. It could be a bit more intuitive with things like keyboard shortcuts."

"Right now, they have a good notification system, but it is in bulk. For example, if I have five projects running and I put a notification, the notification comes back to me for all five projects. I would like the notification to come back only for one project."

"The deployment of their flows needs improvement. It doesn't work with a typical Git branching and CI/CD deployment strategy."

"They need to expand their capabilities in some of the targets, as well as source connectors, and native connectors for a number of large data sources and databases. That's a huge challenge for every company in this area, not just Equalum."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Denodo provides a lightweight 30-day free trial, but when we do courses on top of it, it costs $150 for each person."

"For us, the cost has been okay. Also, there are no additional costs; it's just the standard licensing fee."

"The pricing is pretty good, and I would rate it at four out of five."

"Depending on the size of the client you want to work with, it can be prohibitively expensive at times."

"I am not super familiar with the pricing, but so far, it seems good. We have been happy. We haven't seen any problems. The only time we had to pay extra was during the upgrade. We didn't upgrade at the time they told us to upgrade, and we had to pay extra to keep the service. They had stopped the support for the older version and moved to the newer version. It was not their fault. It was our fault because we didn't get on board quickly."

"I don't know the actual cost, but it's tens of thousands of dollars per month."

"The cost for Denodo is in line with other similar products."

"Talking with my manager and others, nobody has complained about the pricing so far which is a positive sign."

More Denodo pricing and cost advice

"Equalum was reasonably priced. It is not like those million dollar tools, such as Informatica."

"Equalum is rather expensive compared to its competitors. So, you have to make up that cost in time savings, and we usually do that. If we are saving money, it is because we are reducing our development time."

"As soon as you have more than six users, Equalum is lower in cost [than Talend] and if the group gets bigger, it's quite a big delta. If more users want to use it, you don't end up with an increase in licensing costs, so that makes it very easy. And if you need more licenses or more sources, it's a very simple upgrade methodology."

"They have a very simple approach to licensing. They don't get tied up with different types of connectivity to different databases. If you need more connectors or if you need more CPU, you just add on. It's component-based pricing."

"Equalum licensing costs vary, but I won't be able to give information on its fees."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Government

No data available

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	19

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

Does Denodo provide useful data virtualization education? Is it useful to attend their training?

If you are a Denodo user, it makes sense to undergo their training. Different types of professionals can benefit from it, including administrators, developers, and architects. If you are keen on i...

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In experience, what might Denodo be lacking or need improvement on?

I like Denodo a lot. It offers quick and easy web service deployment within minutes. There are not any flaws that I think make the product less good or effective. The only thing I can point out is...

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Which industries can benefit from Denodo the most?

Denodo is suitable for pretty much all sectors that deal with: Big data Cloud solutions Data governance Logical data fabric Master data management In my opinion, organizations in different fields...

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Why should I use Equalum instead of LogMiner?

You'd want to use the Equalium Oracle Binary Log Parser because it's just better than the LogMiner. Sure, LogMiner is made by Oracle and probably the team knows some insight to make it efficient th...

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Is Equalum compatible with all databases?

I'm using Equalum's data replication software for Oracle because that's the one database it's designed for. While it may sound limiting, when you find out how many solutions it can provide for you ...

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Can I use Equalum for free?

No, it's not free but you can benefit from a free trial, though. There's an option to try their platform for a limited amount of time, so that may be useful to help you decide if you want to contin...

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Overview

Denodo is a leading data integration, management, and delivery platform that uses a logical approach to enable data science, hybrid and multi-cloud data integration, self-service BI, and enterprise data services. Organizations of different sizes across various industries utilize the product to get above the data silos. The solution offers organizations the freedom to migrate data to the cloud, or logically unify data warehouses and data lakes, without affecting business. This can ultimately result in the evolution of data strategies.

The platform accelerates data provisioning through reduced data replication, provides business users the freedom to select their preferred applications, and enables consistent security and governance across multiple systems. The solution offers one of the leading logical data fabric solutions by initiating data virtualization and eliminating the complexity and exposing the data in business-friendly formats.

Denodo also offers modern data integration and management for hybrid and multi-cloud environments for Denodo Platform for Cloud. This service can be purchased through the bring-your-own-license (BYOL) option. Users seeking faster deployment can license the product to popular cloud providers, including Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. The solution integrates, manages, and delivers data in complex environments with high performance, governance, and security. It also offers additional solutions, such as the Denodo Platform for Cloud Modernization, the Denodo Platform for Cloud Data Integration, and the Denodo Platform for Cloud Analytics, which overcome common cloud data challenges.

Denodo Features

At the beginning of 2022, version 8.0 of Denodo introduced several new key features of the platform. These include:

Scalability: Denodo can scale from departmental or project to enterprise-wide with geographically distributed nodes. It can also handle large transactional loads of users, sources, and transactions as well as analytical loads of data volumes.
Query optimizers: This feature offers advanced cost-based and source constraint-based query optimization that includes query rewrite, query delegations, data movements, and join optimization.
Intelligent caching: This feature makes full, portal, and time-based caching possible.
Fine-grained security model: This Denodo feature makes integration with external systems possible.
Monitoring and auditing: Denodo offers enterprise-grade monitoring and auditing, which allows for integration with system management products, including Tivoli, Unicenter, and HP BTO.
Development and deployment support: The product offers full lifecycle support for the development and deployment of applications, providing users with all required tools.

Denodo Benefits

Denodo offers various benefits for its users through its services. Some of the greatest advantages of using this platform include:

The solution accelerates time to market for all types of business data through its services.
Denodo provides IT agility, which helps companies respond to business-changing demands in a timely manner.
Users can decide how much data replication they want to reduce through Denodo and use the product in full control.
The solution meets the industry's security and privacy requirements by providing high-grade protection for users' data.
Users can benefit from centralized control of data query executions for complete governance and full security.
Denodo offers legacy replacement, multi-cloud deployments, and cloud migrations with minimal disruptions and a fair price.
The solution utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to unlock data potential for customers.

Reviews from Real Users

Naresh M., a senior application developer at a financial services firm, appreciates Denodo because it offers quick and simple web services creation.

Alisson M., a senior BigData DevOps engineer at Schaeffler, says that Denodo is great for queries and scouting data.

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Equalum is a fully-managed, end-to-end data integration and real-time data streaming platform, powered by industry-leading change data capture (CDC) tech and modern data transformation capabilities (streaming ETL and ELT). Equalum's enterprise-grade platform features intuitive UI allowing you to build robust, real-time data pipelines in minutes.

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Autodesk, VHA, AAA, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Caterpillar, European Chemical Agency, Seagate, Nationwide, Time Warner Cable, Pantex, Inditex, BNSF Railways, Vodafone, CIT Group, Jazztel, Wolters Kluwer, Telefonica, TransAlta

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