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Informatica Enterprise Data Lake vs Talend Data Management Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Informatica Enterprise Data...
Ranking in Data Integration
40th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Talend Data Management Plat...
Ranking in Data Integration
20th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Informatica Enterprise Data Lake is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Talend Data Management Platform is 1.2%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

reviewer2330691 - PeerSpot reviewer
A scalable tool that needs a lot of maintenance due to its unstable nature
Governance, data dictionary, and data cataloging are not available in Informatica Enterprise Data Lake. A lot of businesses are facing issues related to understanding the area revolving around insights of data. At Informatica Enterprise Data Lake's level, in our company, we have a lot of redundant data in a lot of our core systems. The basic thing that our company wants is for the product to develop a reporting layer and access data from the document layer so that we can avoid duplication in projects, databases, and data. There is a lot of maintenance to be done owing to the instability users may face every time because of the huge processing capacity as the company has around more than 50 nodes, which causes a lot of maintenance issues because of which a lot of people don't benefit from the platform as it functions in a slow manner. Informatica Enterprise Data Lake's setup process was complex since it doesn't support a lot of real-time systems. Every time, we have to find different tools we can use in our company with the solution since it doesn't support many real-time systems. Even if our company invests in some tools, Informatica Enterprise Data Lake creates too many small files with some issues, which we cannot read because we invested in HBase and Kudu, but performance-wise, the process is slow.
Selim Seddiki - PeerSpot reviewer
Accessible support with easy upgrades and helpful patch support
The process of upgrading the software is quite easy. For instance, upgrading the Studio is straightforward, especially if done automatically. However, I typically do it manually by downloading the patch and placing it in the dedicated folder before restarting the studio. I have successfully requested the necessary patch from Talend support multiple times to align different studio versions across the team of developers. It was not difficult, and having access to Talend support directly from TNC proved quite beneficial. Our business has been running smoothly for three and a half years.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The process of using the tool's scalability option is well documented."
"The process of upgrading the software is quite easy."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to understand."
"Overall, the management and running environment are very stable, and I would rate it an eight out of ten."
"I like the way that you can use the context variables, and how you can work those context variables to give you values and settings for every development environment, such as PROD, TEST, and DEV."
"Talend Studio has the ability to connect to almost anything to integrate data from files, databases, web services, etc."
"The basic tools are easy to pick up and understand."
"We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need."
"They're very competitive in terms of performance, which is a good selling point. It has very rich features. It provides a very rich feature set in the application."
 

Cons

"Informatica Enterprise Data Lake's setup process was complex since it doesn't support a lot of real-time systems."
"The product must enhance the data quality."
"I'd be interested in seeing the running of Python programs and transformations from within the studio itself."
"I've had some issues with bugs causing crashes, especially when making changes to the system or with the monthly upgrades to Studio they've introduced."
"I wonder if, at the same price, the API component could be added, which would be beneficial."
"I think they should drive toward AI and machine learning. They could include a machine-learning algorithm for the deduplication."
"We'd like to see more connectors it the future."
"The documentation from version to version could be more accurate."
"The solution's memory sometimes bottlenecks and that can be challenging."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licenses attached to the solution are highly priced."
"The solution's pricing is very reasonable and half the cost of Informatica."
"The price of the Talend Data Management Platform is reasonable. The other competing solutions are priced high. Gartner Magic Quadrant identified other solutions, such as Informatica, that are far more expensive."
"The tool is cheap."
"The licensing cost is about 40,000 Euros a year."
"License renewal is on a yearly basis."
"The price is on a per-user basis. It's a little more expensive than other tools. There aren't any additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."
"The pricing is a little higher than what I had expected, but it's comparable with I-PASS competitors."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Informatica Enterprise Data Lake?
The process of using the tool's scalability option is well documented.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Informatica Enterprise Data Lake?
The licenses attached to the solution are highly priced. Informatica has licensing models for every product and for every feature, like the web service feature, which is something my company doesn'...
What needs improvement with Informatica Enterprise Data Lake?
Governance, data dictionary, and data cataloging are not available in Informatica Enterprise Data Lake. A lot of businesses are facing issues related to understanding the area revolving around insi...
What do you like most about Talend Data Management Platform?
We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Talend Data Management Platform?
Talend was an open-source tool, so there were no fees associated with it.
What needs improvement with Talend Data Management Platform?
I understand this might relate more to another platform, like the cloud API cloud platform. Nevertheless, data management could also encompass APIs and real-time streaming data integration. I wonde...
 

Also Known As

Informatica Intelligent Data Lake, Intelligent Data Lake
Talend Integration Suite
 

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Sample Customers

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Accent Group, Acticall, Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, Car & Boat Media, Cdiscount.com
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