We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Qlik Replicate 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 solution is stable."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"It's a robust solution."
"As a data integration platform, it is easy to use. It is quite robust and useful for volumetric analysis when you have huge volumes of data. We have tested it for up to ten million rows, and it is robust enough to process ten million rows internally with its parallel processing. Its error logging mechanism is far simpler and easier to understand than other data integration tools. The newer version of InfoSphere has the data catalog and IDC lineage. They are helpful in the easy traceability of columns and tables."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Finding logs is very easy on the solution."
"Great with replicating and updating records."
"A valuable feature of Qlik Replicate is that you do not need ETL. It's easy to use—you choose two systems and it automatically replicates them. Even if there is no CDC available, if you insert it and update it, and there is nothing to find out, then you can use Qlik Replicate. It's a good product."
"It enables us to transform data at the latest stage rather than in ETL loads, so it's more ELT which is one of the advantages. It is also in near real-time, which brings significant advantage for our embedded analytics approach."
"A pretty good series of connectors is one of the best features of Qlik Replicate."
"The most useful functions of Qlik Replicate are the data manipulation to transformations."
"Qlik Replicate stands out with its cutting-edge technology and its ability to handle diverse data management tasks. This powerful tool allows us to efficiently and swiftly load data into various data stores or destinations, while also enabling easy distribution across different endpoints. A notable feature is its capability to reload data from multiple sources by creating multiple tasks within a brief timeframe of fifteen to twenty minutes. This eliminates the need for manual intervention and ensures quick data loading from different tables."
"It's very user-friendly when it comes to settings and configuration. It also offers very detailed logging about warnings and errors."
"Support has been great."
"The interface needs improvement. It is really too technical. That is the main problem."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"Working with some of the big data components is good, but I can see improvements are needed."
"In terms of intermediate storage, we have some challenges, especially with customers who store data in intermediate locations."
"When you remote into it the Qlik Replicate UI a lot of times it just freezes. We set up the EC2, to allow them to go to the server and click on the Replicate icon, it just opens up and just sits there. At that point, we have to go into the EC2 and then reboot the server. This should be fixed, it is frustrating."
"It's not possible to replicate the QVC files in data analytics."
"Support-wise, this solution is in need of improvement."
"We would like to see more details in messages about errors with the system."
"We'd like better connectivity."
"The UI and data version control can be improved."
"This product could be improved by providing more insight regarding errors. One of our customers that uses Qlik Replicate has had an issue. We tried to debug it, but we could not trace the error message. The infrastructure site should give us more insight about errors. Qlik Replicate is not a business solution, it's an IT solution. The reporting tools and bug site should be improved."
"In various scenarios, an important consideration is when we encounter issues and Qlik Replicate suggests reloading a specific table. If we face any problems or encounter errors with that table, it becomes necessary to make a change in Qlik Replicate. Performing a full reload every time is not feasible or practical. Instead, we should identify the specific issues and address them without repeating the entire reloading process. Based on this approach, we can investigate and resolve the problem by performing targeted loads from the source itself. This change aligns with my perspective and is something I would like to implement."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Qlik Replicate is ranked 17th in Data Integration with 12 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Qlik Replicate 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 Qlik Replicate writes "A highly stable solution that can be used to change data capture in legacy systems". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Qlik Replicate is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Compose, Azure Data Factory and Fivetran. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Qlik Replicate report.
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