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Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) vs Talend Data Integration 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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.1
ODI offers significant ROI, enhancing stability and efficiency, with notable returns and cost savings observed through automation.
Sentiment score
5.9
Talend Data integration streamlines processing, boosts efficiency, saves time, is scalable, user-friendly, improves accuracy, and adds business value.
It has helped us save a lot of time by automating repetitive data processes and reducing manual interventions.
They didn't want to use separate ETL tools for MDM or for TMC and data preparation, which is all included in one package.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.0
Users appreciate Oracle Data Integrator's support responsiveness but note challenges with cross-team coordination and resolving non-urgent issues.
Sentiment score
7.2
Talend Data Integration's customer service is quick, supportive, and enhanced by partnerships, though complex issues may take more time.
I can get solutions quickly, and any tickets I submit to Oracle are responded to and resolved rapidly.
The technical support of Oracle is very good; they support the Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) solution effectively.
The support team is responsive when we raise issues, and they usually provide clear guidance or solutions.
The customer support for Talend Data Integration is very good; whenever I raise a ticket in the customer portal, I immediately receive an email, and follow-up communication is prompt.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
ODI offers strong scalability for enterprises, excelling with correct setup, while improvements in parallel job management are needed.
Sentiment score
6.9
Talend Data Integration excels in scalability, handling large data volumes and complex tasks with modular design and parallelization features.
The scalability and the ability to handle multiple workloads of several parallel ETL jobs could use improvement.
By using features like job parallelization and modular design, we can expand our data flows without having to rebuild everything.
The scalability of Talend Data Integration is good; if it weren't scalable, it wouldn't be reliable.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
ODI 12.1.3 is stable with performance enhancements; issues often stem from deployment methods, not ODI itself.
Sentiment score
7.2
Talend Data Integration is highly stable and reliable, performing consistently across projects regardless of data volume or infrastructure.
In terms of performance stability, I have not experienced any downtimes, crashes, or performance issues with the Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).
Once the jobs are properly designed and deployed, they run reliably without major issues.
 

Room For Improvement

Enhancing usability, integration, automation, compatibility, pricing, Windows performance, and monitoring could significantly improve Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).
Talend Data Integration struggles with real-time processing, high costs, complex interface, and lacks features like versioning and cloud connectors.
If I use a source system like Oracle and a target system like Teradata, ODI will still run, but it struggles a bit with different infrastructures.
It would be excellent not to have to go into different areas to perform different activities but rather have a user-defined interface where we can configure a job, run it, monitor it, link packages, and link subprocesses all in one frame.
It would be great to have more ready-to-use connectors for modern cloud and SaaS platforms.
Talend Data Integration can be improved by reducing the license cost, as it is a bit high compared to other tools, which can be a burden for small-scale companies wanting to buy a license.
Regarding ETL, Talend Data Integration is great, but concerning real-time data processing, people are not really sure about Talend Data Integration or might not know how it provides such types of flexibilities.
 

Setup Cost

Oracle Data Integrator is costlier but offers value for mid-sized enterprises, with complex licensing and potential discounts available.
Talend Data Integration uses token-based pricing, affecting costs, and opinions vary on its affordability compared to other tools.
ODI is cheaper compared to Informatica PowerCenter and IBM DataStage.
The pricing aspect of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is reasonable; it brings significant value to the table.
My experience with Talend Data Integration's pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is a bit higher compared to other tools, making it not very affordable.
 

Valuable Features

Oracle Data Integrator offers flexible, cost-effective data integration with strong automation, real-time management, and support for diverse systems.
Talend Data Integration offers versatile data handling, automation, and seamless platform integration, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and collaborative decision-making.
The main benefits that Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) brings to the table include data quality, data completeness functionality, metadata management, and the reverse engineering feature, which allows integrating the metadata of diversified data sources with a single click.
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is powerful and strong if my system uses Oracle components for environments like OLTP, enterprise data warehouse, or data marts.
By automating daily data loading processes, we reduced manual effort by around three or four hours per day, which saved roughly 60 to 80 hours per month.
Flexibility is a key feature I appreciate about Talend Data Integration, especially the integration of Java within it and the ease of integrating with multiple source repositories such as GitHub and Bitbucket.
The best feature of Talend Data Integration is its multiple data DB components; we have almost all the components and also cloud versions, with TMC allowing us to perform data preparation and data stewardship.
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (8th)
Talend Data Integration
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (19th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (14th)
 

Q&A Highlights

RS
Sep 09, 2021
 

Featured Reviews

Hafiz Mannan - PeerSpot reviewer
Facilitates complex data integration with ease and flexibility
It would be great if ODI could link the designer, mapping, and workflows in a more simplified manner, maybe in one combined interface. It would be excellent not to have to go into different areas to perform different activities but rather have a user-defined interface where we can configure a job, run it, monitor it, link packages, and link subprocesses all in one frame instead of having the designer separately, mapping separately, and monitoring and session management separately. With respect to data quality challenges, it would be great to give an option to fix data quality issues based on AI. Integrating AI with ODI that provides recommendations on how to fix those data quality issues after analyzing and profiling business data would be excellent. One of the main disadvantages of the Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is that it sometimes takes a lot of resources when handling multiple jobs. The scalability and the ability to handle multiple workloads of several parallel ETL jobs could use improvement, and certain parallel threads should be added along with the ability to configure multiple jobs from the same data directory structure.
Mubahir Rashid - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers flexibility and ease of integration while needing improvements in data flow management
I haven't worked with Talend Data Integration on real-time data processing; I have only seen the streaming component, and I think it can accommodate limited streaming, not at the level of larger big data platforms. Regarding ETL, Talend Data Integration is great, but concerning real-time data processing, people are not really sure about Talend Data Integration or might not know how it provides such types of flexibilities. I haven't worked on this aspect in Talend Data Integration, so this is definitely an area where it lacks. To elaborate on one drawback, if I am designing something in Talend Data Integration, I cannot backtrack in the flow. For example, if I read data from a source and transform it before applying complex aggregation in the third step, I cannot join this data with the second step. If I need to go back, I will have to use a memory component, or if I need to avoid memory consumption, I will have to read the data from step one again to join it with the third step.
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Answers from the Community

RS
Sep 9, 2021
Sep 9, 2021
There are two products I know about * TimeXtender : Microsoft based, Transformation logic is quiet good and can easily be extended with T-SQL , Has a semantic layer that generates metat data for cubes . price approx 40K$, works with tables . Attunity (Bought by Qlik) : technology agnostic , nice web interface , expensive > 100K€. Works with transaction logs There are many other pure ETL ...
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SS
Apr 6, 2020
We usually use Talend. Look here: https://community.talend.com/t5/Design-and-Development/The-way-from-OLTP-to-OLAP/td-p/116719
RS
Apr 7, 2020
Thanks Stefan !!! May I know if Talend is opensource /free ? It is available in all 3 editions - basic , standard end enterprise? it is capable to read data from all heterogeneous system like various types of data bases and files etc..?
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business25
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise43
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What's the difference between Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)?
Oracle Integration Cloud Service has a fairly easy initial setup, and Oracle offers initial support and guidance for those who might find the setup to be challenging. There are complications that c...
What do you like most about Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)?
In comparison with other products of the same range, licensing mode is really attractive, no need to license according technology/topology to be used and an incredible Versatility to build any Data...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)?
The pricing aspect of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is reasonable; it brings significant value to the table. It's not a product for everyone, but for those needing to handle serious business data wi...
What do you like most about Talend Data integration?
The product's integration with PostgreSQL and Jira has been helpful for us. Its performance is good. However, we do not use it for large data sets.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Talend Data integration?
My experience with Talend Data Integration's pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is a bit higher compared to other tools, making it not very affordable.
What needs improvement with Talend Data integration?
The user interface of Talend Data Integration could be more simple and intuitive to reduce learning curves. Processing large volumes of data sometimes consumes a lot of resources. Automatic optimiz...
 

Also Known As

ODI
Talend Cloud Integration, Talend Integration Cloud, Talend Cloud Remote Engine for AWS
 

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Sample Customers

Griffith University, Kansas City Power & Light, Keste, Raymond James Financial, Valdosta State University
ACCOR, ADR, L'OREAL, AstraZeneca
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