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Integrate.io Platform vs Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Integrate.io Platform
Ranking in Data Integration
39th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Data Observability (6th)
Pentaho Data Integration an...
Ranking in Data Integration
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
61
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Integrate.io Platform is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is 1.7%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics1.7%
Integrate.io Platform0.5%
Other97.8%
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

RP
Founder at Rembrand Pardo Consulting
Streamlines daily data workflows and has improved reliability for complex business integrations
One area where Integrate.io Platform could improve is around visibility and debugging. While the logging is helpful, it can sometimes take time to trace issues across multiple steps in a pipeline, especially when flows become complex. A more streamlined way to track data through each stage or clearer error messaging would make troubleshooting faster and more intuitive. Another improvement would be flexibility in handling edge cases. For standard transformations, it works well, but when business logic gets more complex, it can feel a bit limited without introducing workarounds. Having more advanced customization options without sacrificing the ease of use would be a big plus, in my opinion. Documentation clarity around existing pipelines was also something I felt could be better supported. Since integrations tend to evolve over time, having strong built-in documentation features or easier ways to understand dependencies between jobs would have helped, especially when onboarding someone new. I only stayed with this client for six months, so we needed to bring or train their team members to do this. Revisiting flows after a while would have been nice. The last thing would be performance transparency could be improved. Jobs generally run reliably, but having clearer insights into performance, such as bottlenecks, processing time per step, or optimizing suggestions would make it easier to fine-tune workflows as data volume grows. Part of my job, and what the client in this case wanted, was to scale in the future without having to change to another tool, so that would help a lot. I would say the platform is solid, but these kinds of improvements that I mentioned would make it even more efficient to manage at scale and over time.
Michelle Lawson - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Streamlines complex data workflows and has supported automated customer payment notifications
I haven't used Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics in a couple of years, so I don't know how it can be improved. I was pretty pleased with it and was self-taught on it, working a lot with their team at various times, but they were surprised that I was able to learn it all by myself. The documentation is not bad, and documentation is the main thing that any product can do to make themselves better because the easier it is to find examples of what you're trying to do improves the learning curve. I think it took me the longest to learn how to do the asynchronous processing and have things wait for other things to finish processing before continuing on in the workflow. I choose 8 out of 10 because the one reason that it's been rejected at T-Mobile is that everything has to go through a provisioning process and has to get approved, meaning the actual code base has to be investigated by T-Mobile before they'll allow us to use tools of that nature. For whatever reason, we just haven't been able to get that approval; I don't know if it's on Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics' side or if it's on our side. The more you can make it easier for companies to feel comfortable that your product is secure, robustly tested and bug-free, and free of any other kind of negative hacks, the more quickly it will get accepted.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Integrate.io Platform has helped simplify my data pipelines, as it is really good with Salesforce sync."
"I think the platform helped them move forward towards a more streamlined, reliable, and scalable way of handling their data operations."
"Integrate.io Platform has positively impacted my organization by reducing a lot of our workloads because we can make this replication faster and connect it with other connectors, and it also gives us this GPU that allows us to work faster."
"It's my understanding that the product can scale."
"Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics positively impacted my organization by organizing data that was scattered across many different databases and APIs, reducing a lot of manual work and centralizing it into one data warehouse."
"The most valuable thing for me is that it enables a technical product manager to be able to write ETL jobs themselves, which saves developers time so that they can do more important things."
"Easy to use, support for all databases (jdbc and odbc connection), xls, csv, files, txt, SAS, R."
"It allows for very quick development due to the intuitive interface."
"The fact that it's a low-code solution is valuable. It's good for more junior people who may not be as experienced with programming."
"Previously, I had three people to collect all the data and integrate all Excel spreadsheets, and it took them a day or two, but now I can do this work in about 15 minutes."
"The way it has improved our product is by giving our users the ability to do ad hoc reports, which is very important to our users. We can do predictive analysis on trends coming in for contracts, which is what our product does. The product helps users decide which way to go based on the predictive analysis done by Pentaho. Pentaho is not doing predictions, but reporting on the predictions that our product is doing. This is a big part of our product."
 

Cons

"Customer support could be better. We often get replies that are delayed, and sometimes there is a lot of back and forth."
"Another improvement would be flexibility in handling edge cases. For standard transformations, it works well, but when business logic gets more complex, it can feel a bit limited without introducing workarounds."
"I also found, in my case, that the statistical data input wasn't working (.sas7bdat input wasn't working)."
"The technical support does not reply in a timely manner. The support they have in place does not work very well."
"It's not very stable, at least not in the case of the community edition. I'm working with the community edition right now and I think perhaps it is because of that it is not very stable, it causes the system to sometimes hang. I'm not sure if this is the case for pair tiers."
"There some steps that should perform better like the json input, but because of the flexibility we at inflow, override it by using scripting steps."
"The more you can make it easier for companies to feel comfortable that your product is secure, robustly tested and bug-free, and free of any other kind of negative hacks, the more quickly it will get accepted."
"The testing and quality could really improve. Every time that there is a major release, we are very nervous about what is going to get broken. We have had a lot of experience with that, as even the latest one was broken. Some basic things get broken. That doesn't look good for Hitachi at all. If there is one place I would advise them to spend some money and do some effort, it is with the quality. It is not that hard to start putting in some unit tests so basic things don't get broken when they do a new release. That just looks horrible, especially for an organization like Hitachi."
"I would like to have more languages/scripts supported in user-defined classes."
"​There is not a data quality or MDM solution in the Pentaho DI suite.​"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I believe the pricing of the solution is more affordable than the competitors"
"For most development tasks, the Enterprise edition should be sufficient. It depends on the type of support that you require for your production environment."
"The cost of these types of solutions are expensive. So, we really appreciate what we get for our money. Though, we don't think of the solution as a top-of-the-line solution or anything like that."
"You don't need the Enterprise Edition, you can go with the Community Edition. That way you can use it for free and, for free, it's a pretty good tool to use."
"When we first started with it, it was much cheaper. It has gone up drastically, especially since Hitachi bought out Pentaho."
"You need to go through the paid version to have Hitachi Lumada specialized support. However, if you are using the free version, then you will have only the community support. You will depend on the releases from Hitachi to solve some problem or questions that you have, such as bug fixes. You will need to wait for the newest versions or releases to solve these types of problems."
"The solution reduced our ETL development time by a lot because a whole project used to take about a month to get done previously. After having Lumada, it took just a week. For a big company in Brazil, it saves a team at least $10,000 a month."
"If a company is looking for an ETL solution and wants to integrate it with their tech stack but doesn't want to spend a bunch of money, Pentaho is a good solution"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Educational Organization
9%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise32
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Integrate.io Platform?
I think Integrate.io Platform can be improved if there is a connector with all the cloud providers, mostly AWS or maybe GCP, to allow us to have this replication duplicated in our AWS infrastructur...
What is your primary use case for Integrate.io Platform?
My main use case for Integrate.io Platform is for database replications because it has a latency around 60 seconds. I use Integrate.io Platform mainly to integrate machine learning initiatives that...
What advice do you have for others considering Integrate.io Platform?
I would rate Integrate.io Platform a 10 out of 10. I chose this rating because I appreciate the latency and the fast replication that we have; our clients here want all the things fast, and they do...
Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?
Hi Rajneesh, yes here is the feature comparison between the community and enterprise edition : https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/brochure/leverage-open-source-benefits-with-assurance-of-hita...
What do you think can be improved with Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations?
In my opinion, the reporting side of this tool needs serious improvements. In my previous company, we worked with Hitachi Lumada Data Integration and while it does a good job for what it’s worth, ...
What do you use Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations for most frequently?
My company has used this product to transform data from databases, CSV files, and flat files. It really does a good job. We were most satisfied with the results in terms of how many people could us...
 

Also Known As

DRIVEN APM, Xplenty
Hitachi Lumada Data Integration, Kettle, Pentaho Data Integration
 

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Sample Customers

GAP, Samsung, REA Group, TellApart, Pintrest, Expedia, CapitalOne, Oportun, Hotels.com, HomeAway, CommonwealthBank, D&B, DeerWalk
66Controls, Providential Revenue Agency of Ro Negro, NOAA Information Systems, Swiss Real Estate Institute
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