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Melissa Data Quality vs SQL Power Data Quality comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Melissa Data Quality
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Quality (10th)
SQL Power Data Quality
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
8th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Data Scrubbing Software category, the mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 9.2%, up from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SQL Power Data Quality is 3.1%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Scrubbing Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Melissa Data Quality9.2%
SQL Power Data Quality3.1%
Other87.7%
Data Scrubbing Software
 

Featured Reviews

GM
Data Architect at World Vision
SSIS MatchUp Component is Amazing
- Scalability is a limitation as it is single threaded. You can bypass this limitation by partitioning your data (say by alphabetic ranges) into multiple dataflows but even within a single dataflow the tool starts to really bog down if you are doing survivorship on a lot of columns. It's just very old technology written that's starting to show its age since it's been fundamentally the same for many years. To stay relavent they will need to replace it with either ADF or SSIS-IR compliant version. - Licensing could be greatly simplified. As soon as a license expires (which is specific to each server) the product stops functioning without prior notice and requires a new license by contacting the vendor. And updating the license is overly complicated. - The tool needs to provide resizable forms/windows like all other SSIS windows. Vendor claims its an SSIS limitation but that isn't true since pretty much all SSIS components are resizable except theirs! This is just an annoyance but needless impact on productivity when developing new data flows. - The tool needs to provide for incremental matching using the MatchUp for SSIS tool (they provide this for other solutions such as standalone tool and MatchUp web service). We had to code our own incremental logic to work around this. - Tool needs ability to sort mapped columns in the GUI when using advanced survivorship (only allowed when not using column-level survivorship). - It should provide an option for a procedural language (such as C# or VB) for survivor-ship expressions rather than relying on SSIS expression language. - It should provide a more sophisticated ability to concatenate groups of data fields into common blocks of data for advanced survivor-ship prioritization (we do most of this in SQL prior to feeding the data to the tool). - It should provide the ability to only do survivor-ship with no matching (matching is currently required when running data through the tool). - Tool should provide a component similar to BDD to enable the ability to split into multiple thread matches based on data partitions for matching and survivor-ship rather than requiring custom coding a parallel capable solution. We broke down customer data by first letter of last name into ranges of last names so we could run parallel data flows. - Documentation needs to be provided that is specific to MatchUp for SSIS. Most of their wiki pages were written for the web service API MatchUp Object rather than the SSIS component. - They need to update their wiki site documentation as much of it is not kept current. Its also very very basic offering very little in terms of guidelines. For example, the tool is single-threaded so getting great performance requires running multiple parallel data flows or BDD in a data flow which you can figure out on your own but many SSIS practitioners aren't familiar with those techniques. - The tool can hang or crash on rare occasions for unknown reason. Restarting the package resolves the problem. I suspect they have something to do with running on VM (vendor doesn't recommend running on VM) but have no evidence to support it. When it crashes it creates dump file with just vague message saying the executable stopped running.
reviewer2091297 - PeerSpot reviewer
Fraud Strategist(Actimize/SAS) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Is easy to deploy and is stable and scalable
I like the load balancing feature The normalization factor should be improved so that it is better scaled. It should be more user-friendly. It should be easier to export reports. I've been using SQL Power Data Quality for 10 years. SQL Power Data Quality is stable. It is a scalable solution.…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Customer Service: Great Technical Support: Great"
"Getting the most up to date address for our members. We like to keep in touch with membership a few times a year so we want to maintain up to date addresses to be sure they receive any information that we mail to them."
"Provides simplicity, ease of use, combined with overall accuracy of data."
"Services for all manner of data-driven organizations, no matter their size or budget."
"Melissa Data is cost effective and efficient."
"I was able to dedupe millions of records in the past, and append the most recent email."
"There have been tangible benefits in combating fraudulent transactions. The information from Melissa Data is fed straight into our fraud system. This creates efficiency but also removes the need for manual address checks."
"​Allows us to identify cell phones before dialing, and giving us data about callers."
"SQL Power Data Quality is truly a proven product that makes the work of cleaning data in both source and target data easy yet efficient."
"The solution is able to integrate with many systems and other products."
"It is a scalable solution. We have over 1,000 SQL Power Data Quality users in our organization."
"The Nomo, select form, and so on are the most valuable features."
"The solution is very easy to use and it's quite flexible."
 

Cons

"​If I had multiple Excel files open and ran Listware it would crash Excel, charge the credits, and not save the results."
"An area for improvement is where an end customer's address is not found in the Melissa Data database, even though it is a valid address."
"Needs better email append coverage (but every vendor struggles with this)."
"It really hasn't given us a phone number for the owner of the property, and that's one thing I'd really like to be getting. Either a phone number or email."
"Pricing model."
"It will mix up family members at times, so we will change addresses at times that shouldn’t be changed."
"We have noticed that some of the emails and addresses return with confusing or incorrect codes, but for the most part, it is accurate.​"
"Speed of delivery/ease of use. They advertise a 24-hour, next business day turn time on data annotation, but I’ve found it is usually closer to 72 hours. This is still excellent, just make sure you add in the appropriate fluff to your delivery timelines."
"The normalization factor should be improved so that it is better scaled. It should be more user-friendly."
"Downtime issues should be improved."
"Integrating SQL Power with the system is challenging especially in places where no tutorials found and new versions continue to be released with varying requirements."
"The only area of improvement that we've come across within the solution was the portfolio roadmap creation. There's a bit of limitation there, but otherwise, the tool itself is very good."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"​You should have a good idea of the size of your data and the amount of cleansing you will be doing, so you will purchase the appropriate size bundle.​"
"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."
"Understand how may transactions you will be processing so that you can get the right tier pricing."
"Melissa pricing is competitive."
"They were willing to work with our preferred vendors, though it involved extra steps to get the license."
"This vendor has no equal in pricing for equivalent functionality."
"The price for address validation is similar in all software. However, the price for geocoding decides the actual pricing. If you get their most accurate geocoding (called GeoPoints), then it will add about $10k+ per million requests."
"Trial subscriptions (via cloud) are very cheap and easy to use. It’s a great way to test Listware to see if you want to go deeper with integration."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
18%
Healthcare Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Insurance Company
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
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Sample Customers

Boeing Co., FedEx, Ford Motor Co, Hewlett Packard, Meade-Johnson, Microsoft, Panasonic, Proctor & Gamble, SAAB Cars USA, Sony, Walt Disney, Weight Watchers, and Intel.
TimeWarner, Champion Technologies Tiscali, Oneil, Broadspire,youbet.com, Pepsi Co, Citco, John Lewes
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