Informatica Enterprise Data Lake vs WhereScape RED comparison

Informatica and WhereScape are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Informatica is ranked #39 with an average rating of 8.0, while WhereScape is ranked #46. Informatica holds a 0.4% mindshare in DI, compared to WhereScape’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Informatica users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of WhereScape users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Lake and WhereScape RED 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.

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Informatica Enterprise Data Lake vs. WhereScape RED

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Categories and Ranking

Informatica Enterprise Data...

Ranking in Data Integration

39th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WhereScape RED

Ranking in Data Integration

46th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Informatica Enterprise Data Lake is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhereScape RED is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Informatica Enterprise Data Lake	0.4%
WhereScape RED	1.0%
Other	98.6%

Data Integration

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Santanu Bhattacharya

Technical manager at Cognizant

Have built an enterprise-level cloud data pipeline with reliable governance and integration

People use Informatica Enterprise Data Lake because we can create the whole journey from data migration projects from the legacy system to AWS and to the Lake architecture, covering the entire journey from the source to the landing zone, then to the curated zone, and finally consumed by both downstream and upstream applications. The main benefit of Informatica Enterprise Data Lake is that it allows you to use different types of data types, including blobs and storage; all types of data—structured, unstructured, and semi-structured—can exist in the Data Lake architecture, making it robust for retrieving data based on your filtration needs. Its value is actually governed by the client, who combined with our company and AWS, so we all work together to use the workspace and all these things for Informatica Enterprise Data Lake.

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reviewer1618884

BI Analyst DW Architect at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

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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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."

"This is a fantastically robust DW tool that will make you at least 10 times faster in producing a DW."

"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."

"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."

"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."

"WhereScape is really helpful in terms of architecture data. Everything is one of automation. Two people can do thousands of tables in one day or two. It saves a lot of time."

"The tool supports multiple target update methods."

"WhereScape RED has improved our business's ability to generate needed reporting without requiring a large team of developers to manually code all of the necessary plumbing."

"RED has provided us the ability to integrate, stage, and transform data from diverse sources into an enterprise-grade data warehouse which meets the needs of my organization, but it also enables us to easily and quickly make ETL or DW changes."

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Cons

"Informatica Enterprise Data Lake's setup process was complex since it doesn't support a lot of real-time systems."

"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."

"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."

"Customization could be better."

"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."

"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."

"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."

"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."

"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licenses attached to the solution are highly priced."

"Factor in the price of specialized consulting who know this product. They're hard to find and expensive."

"Speed to market of a warehouse solution at a relatively inexpensive price point."

"Our company purchased a corporate unlimited license."

"ROI is at least 10 times."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

10%

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Computer Software Company

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Informatica Enterprise Data Lake?

Informatica Enterprise Data Lake's cost is higher, but it provides good value for the price. It comes at a reasonable price, which I would rate at eight out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Informatica Enterprise Data Lake?

Improvement depends upon how we can faster showcase our data in our reports, whether in Power BI, Tableau, or other formats. Improving the speed of data showcasing and filtration would be better, a...

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Also Known As

Informatica Intelligent Data Lake, Intelligent Data Lake

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Overview

The Intelligent Data Lake enables raw big data to be systematically transformed into fit-for-purpose data sets for a variety of data consumers. Data scientists and analysts can quickly find the data they’re looking for using semantic and faceted search. They can see data profiles, lineage, and other relationships to know whether they can trust the data and whether it’s fit-for-use in their analytic projects.

Informatica

WhereScape is data warehouse software that automates the Data Warehouse lifecycle. From implementation to maintenance, WhereScape will ensure your data warehouse projects are completed up to 5x faster than manual coding.

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Sample Customers

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British American Tobacco, Cornell University, Allianz Benelux, Finnair, Solarwinds and many more.

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