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Fivetran vs WhereScape RED comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
Fivetran boosts efficiency and reduces engineering costs, enabling businesses to focus on operations rather than engineering solutions.
Sentiment score
7.0
WhereScape RED offers varied returns, with some users experiencing quick ROI, efficient development, and substantial gains.
It saves us the effort of having one to two data engineers managing the tasks that Fivetran handles.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
Fivetran's customer service gets mixed reviews, with praise and criticism for responsiveness, communication, and tech support experiences.
Sentiment score
8.3
Customer service is often excellent and prompt, although some feel support wanes post-purchase and seems money-driven.
The technical support provided by Fivetran has generally been good, with a response time and competence that I would rate as good.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Fivetran scales across company sizes, handles data volumes, integrates sources easily, but involves cost and resource management challenges.
Sentiment score
6.6
WhereScape RED efficiently scales with large data, improves ETL processing, and enhances speeds using ELT and SQL features.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Fivetran is generally reliable with minor downtimes, but some users face challenges with connectors and varying vendor support.
Sentiment score
6.6
WhereScape RED's stability varies; it's praised for maturity and speed, yet some report resource and debugging challenges.
During the duration of the time that we used Fivetran, it was highly stable.
 

Room For Improvement

Fivetran needs improvements in UI, security, cost, logging, customization, support, connectors, real-time processing, and API visibility.
WhereScape RED suffers from scalability issues, lacking performance efficiency, enhanced documentation, better GUI, and improved support for multi-database environments.
From a cost perspective, if the number of connectors is lesser, then Fivetran is not the most cost-efficient option.
Improvement in existing connectors with new features is desirable.
 

Setup Cost

Fivetran pricing varies by usage and features, impacting small and large enterprises differently, with flexible but complex pricing.
WhereScape RED's flexible developer-based licensing and native SQL code provide cost-effective, vendor-independent data warehousing solutions with quick ROI potential.
Our current yearly contract for Fivetran is approximately $70,000.
 

Valuable Features

Fivetran offers easy, reliable data integration with built-in connectors, seamless setup, real-time syncing, and in-platform data transformation.
WhereScape RED streamlines data warehousing with automation, agile support, user-friendly interface, and compatibility with leading methodologies.
The most valuable feature of Fivetran is its built-in connectors for a wide range of data sources.
The ability to seamlessly integrate with a large variety of data sources is valuable.
 

Categories and Ranking

Fivetran
Ranking in Data Integration
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Data Replication (3rd), Cloud Data Integration (5th)
WhereScape RED
Ranking in Data Integration
46th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 2.3%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhereScape RED is 1.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Mediha Šiljić - PeerSpot reviewer
Built-in connectors offer extensive data source integration and time savings
Fivetran could improve by adapting more for technical users and by providing more options for such users. There should be more adaptability in terms of new features. If a specific feature is required, it should be integrated promptly. Improvement in existing connectors with new features is desirable. Enhancements around customer-focused product adaptation are also suggested.
reviewer1618884 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quick to set up, flexible, and stable
The scheduling part I don't like due to the fact that it allows you to schedule as a parent and child and other things, however, the error trackability has to be a little more user-friendly. It's also not user-friendly in the sense that it loads all the jobs and there are not enough filters so that it doesn't need to load everything. If the job fails, you don't get any type of alert or email. It would be ideal if there was some sort of automated alert message. Technical support isn't the best. It would be ideal if we understood how to do it in a card exception regarding exclusion, where the card is captured separately rather than filling the whole process on the data inbound side. Certain workloads like this are organized in such a way where you seem to be doubling the work as opposed to streamlining the process.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Insurance Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What's the deal with the HVR software acquisition?
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How much traffic can HVR Software handle?
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue, Morgan Stanley, OpenAI, LVMH, Pfizer, Verizon, SpotifyNational Australia Bank, Saks, Cemex, Okta, Dropbox, Pitney Bowes, World Fuel Services,Lufthansa, AutoZone, ASICS, ASOS, Coupa, Databricks, Hermes, New Relic, Intercom,Canva, Honeywell, Square, DocuSign, Nandos, Oldcastle Infrastructure
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