We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"The most valuable feature is the product's versatility to inject data."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"Offers great flexibility."
"The best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to transfer information via notes."
"It's a robust solution."
"The product has an ELT approach."
"ODI's most valuable features are it utilizes the database engine and is very lightweight."
"Oracle provides great documentation."
"All ETL code is stored in repositories in underlying database schemas. The number of users can access and work on the same solution using a client tool. So distributed teams can work on this tool in an efficient manner."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward, especially compared to Mule, which our team has worked with before and found to be a bit more complex in terms of setup."
"The initial setup is easy."
"In our DW/BI solution, ODI is the main tool to integrate the data in a daily batch way."
"I do not have to maintain a separate ETL instance. I can change the SQL when something is not performing correctly."
"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 troubleshooting guide is very bad."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"DataStage is quite expensive. It is too hard to find a consultant using DataStage in Turkey."
"Improvements for DataStage could include better integration with modern data sources like cloud solutions and documents, along with enhancing its capability to handle non-structured data."
"It lacks a suite of tools suitable for fully processing data and moving it into decision support warehouses."
"Reverse engineering is complicated and challenging to manage."
"We used a third party to do the implementation of ODI."
"If there was an add-on tool to hide the performance issues and solve them for me, then I might be interested in that as it would provide me value."
"The performance of the user interface is in need of improvement."
"It needs easier security."
"Overall the product is fine, but sometimes its reports unknown errors while we compile ETL scripts."
"An area for improvement would be the lack of SQL compatibility - ODI has no ability to interact with SQL unstructured types and data types."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is ranked 4th in Data Integration with 67 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is rated 8.2. 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 Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) writes "Straightforward to implement, scalable, and has good stability and documentation, but technical support could still be improved". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is most compared with Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory and SAP Data Services. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) report.
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