We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Matillion ETL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is easy to deploy."
"We are mostly using transmission rules. It has a lot of functions and logic related to transmission. It is a user-friendly tool with in-built functions."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"Offers great flexibility."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The solution has improved the time it takes to perform tasks related to batch applications."
"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is its user-friendly graphical interface."
"The tool's middle-dimensional structure significantly simplifies obtaining the right data at the appropriate level. This feature makes deploying our applications easier since we utilize a single source without publishing data from various sources."
"It is an incredibly user-friendly and intuitive tool, making the learning curve quite smooth"
"It can scale to a great extent. It can handle the load that we are putting on it, which is about 5TBs."
"It has good integrations with Amazon Redshift and other AWS services."
"It has improved the costs of managing my customer’s data."
"Matillion ETL is one hundred percent stable."
"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the UI experience in which you can drag and drop most of the transformation."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"So, there are some features that are missing. If I compare DataStage to Talend, Talend allows you to write custom code in Java or use these tools in your applications as well if you are building a job application. But in DataStage, it does not allow you to write custom code for any component."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"There are three things that could improve - the cloud, monitoring and cloud integration. It's a solid product but not a modern one and of course it depends what you're looking for."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"What needs improvement in IBM InfoSphere DataStage is its pricing. The pricing for the solution is higher than its competitors, so a lot of the clients my company has worked with prefer other tools over IBM InfoSphere DataStage because of the high price tag. Another area for improvement in the solution stems from a lot of new types of databases, for example, databases in the cloud and big data have become available, and IBM InfoSphere DataStage is working on various connectors for different data sources, but that still isn't up-to-date, meaning that some connectors are missing for modern data sources. The latest version of IBM InfoSphere DataStage also has a complex architecture, so my team faced frequent outages and that should be improved as well."
"We would be happy to see in next versions the ability to return several parameters from jobs. Now, jobs can return just one parameter. If they could return several parameters, that would be great."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"The tool's lineage is very weak."
"Sometimes, we have issues with the solution's stability and need to restart it for three weeks or more."
"The product must enhance its near-real-time data capture feature."
"The cost of the solution is high and could be reduced."
"I found some of the more complex aspects of ETL challenging, but I grasped the concepts fairly quickly."
"Going forward, I would like them to add custom jobs, since we still have to run these outside of Matillion."
"Performance can be improved for efficiency, and it can be made faster."
"In the next release, we would like to have connections to more databases."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 36 reviews while Matillion ETL is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Integration with 22 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Matillion ETL is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere DataStage writes "User-friendly with a lot of functions for transmission rules, but has slow performance and not suitable for a huge volume of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Matillion ETL writes "Efficient data integration and transformation with seamless cloud-native integration". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Alteryx Designer, whereas Matillion ETL is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Matillion ETL report.
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