StreamSets vs Talend Data Fabric comparison

IBM and Talend are both solutions in the Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.8, while Talend is ranked #26 with an average rating of 9.0. IBM holds a 1.6% mindshare in DI, compared to Talend’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Talend users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

StreamSets and Talend Data Fabric are key players in the data integration sector. StreamSets is favored for its flexibility and ease of deployment, while Talend is appreciated for its extensive feature set, including advanced data governance.

Features: StreamSets focuses on real-time data processing, extensive connectivity to diverse data sources, and ease of use through a user-friendly interface. Talend Data Fabric provides robust data integration capabilities, extensive data governance tools, and multi-cloud data orchestration, accommodating comprehensive data management needs.

Room for Improvement: StreamSets could improve in handling larger volumes of complex data records and optimization for faster processing in such scenarios. Enhancements in their user interface responsiveness and documentation consistency are also beneficial. Talend Data Fabric might benefit from simplifying its deployment process and reducing complexity in multi-step configurations. Their pricing model could be more accessible for smaller organizations needing fewer features, and further optimizing their educational resources for quicker onboarding would be advantageous.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StreamSets is known for its straightforward deployment, which allows rapid implementation with minimal technical barriers, complemented by responsive customer support. Talend Data Fabric offers comprehensive deployment processes with seamless integration across varied systems, supported by robust customer service and extensive educational materials, though its deployment can be time-intensive.

Pricing and ROI: StreamSets offers competitive pricing with low initial setup costs, delivering favorable ROI due to efficient deployment and operations. Talend Data Fabric, at a higher price point, justifies its cost through its extensive features and value-added services, often leading to significant long-term ROI for users managing complex data environments.

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Categories and Ranking

StreamSets

Ranking in Data Integration

22nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Talend Data Fabric

Ranking in Data Integration

26th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of StreamSets is 1.6%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Talend Data Fabric is 1.2%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ved Prakash Yadav

Senior Data Platform Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Useful for data transformation and helps with column encryption

We use various tools and alerting systems to notify us of pipeline errors or failures. StreamSets supports data governance and compliance by allowing us to encrypt incoming data based on specified rules. We can easily encrypt columns by providing the column name and hash key. If you're considering using StreamSets for the first time, I would advise first understanding why you want to use it and how it will benefit you. If you're dealing with change tracking or handling large amounts of data, it could be cost-effective compared to services like Amazon. It's easy to schedule and manage tasks with the tool, and you can enhance your skills as an ETL developer. You can easily migrate traditional pipelines built on platforms like Informatica or Talend to StreamSets. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

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KrishnaBaddam

Presales Manager at Artha Solutions

Supports API integrations and enables users to handle data management

Informatica is a well-established product known for its stability. Hardware and configuration can affect its performance, and it's not a lightweight tool that will fail quickly. When purchasing Informatica, you have options based on your needs. A simple data ingestion or integration license is relatively affordable, but the full Data Fabric suite is expensive. The Data Fabric suite includes integration, data quality, API management, big data processing, and real-time capabilities. For those who don't need the entire suite, purchasing individual components, such as data integration or data quality, it is a more cost-effective option. These individual licenses are generally less expensive than the complete Data Fabric suite, offering a more flexible and budget-friendly choice than Informatica's flagship.

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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 best thing about StreamSets is its plugins, which are very useful and work well with almost every data source. It's also easy to use, especially if you're comfortable with SQL. You can customize it to do what you need. Many other tools have started to use features similar to those introduced by StreamSets, like automated workflows that are easy to set up."

"Also, the intuitive canvas for designing all the streams in the pipeline, along with the simplicity of the entire product are very big pluses for me. The software is very simple and straightforward. That is something that is needed right now."

"One of the things I like is the data pipelines. They have a very good design. Implementing pipelines is very straightforward. It doesn't require any technical skill."

"For me, the most valuable features in StreamSets have to be the Data Collector and Control Hub, but especially the Data Collector. That feature is very elegant and seamlessly works with numerous source systems."

"The most valuable features are the option of integration with a variety of protocols, languages, and origins."

"The ETL capabilities are very useful for us. We extract and transform data from multiple data sources, into a single, consistent data store, and then we put it in our systems. We typically use it to connect our Apache Kafka with data lakes. That process is smooth and saves us a lot of time in our production systems."

"It is really easy to set up and the interface is easy to use."

"StreamSets is the leader in the market."

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"We've had no issues with the stability so far."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"Everything in Talend Data Fabric is GUI-based, making it very user-friendly and easy to learn quickly."

"Talend can be used for multi-cloud purposes, allowing users to orchestrate data across various cloud platforms without purchasing AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, or similar cloud-specific tools."

"It is a smart tool for us to design data pipelines. It lets us populate our three data lake instances. We like this solution for its connection capabilities, since it is very important to be able to use many different types of software. We tested a lot of SAP sources successfully, including cloud sources with SAP. It is also very easy to anonymize data with TIBCO, as well as populating HDFS files, packet files, and raw files. It is very easy to do that with Talend Data Fabric."

"The Talend data integration has been one of the most valuable features."

Cons

"The software is very good overall. Areas for improvement are the error logging and the version history. I would like to see better, more detailed error logging information."

"We've seen a couple of cases where it appears to have a memory leak or a similar problem."

"There aren't enough hands-on labs, and debugging is also an issue because it takes a lot of time. Logs are not that clear when you are debugging, and you can only select a single source for a pipeline."

"Sometimes, it is not clear at first how to set up nodes. A site with an explanation of how each node works would be very helpful."

"The design experience is the bane of our existence because their documentation is not the best. Even when they update their software, they don't publish the best information on how to update and change your pipeline configuration to make it conform to current best practices. We don't pay for the added support. We use the "freeware version." The user community, as well as the documentation they provide for the standard user, are difficult, at best."

"The monitoring visualization is not that user-friendly. It should include other features to visualize things, like how many records were streamed from a source to a destination on a particular date."

"The documentation is inadequate and has room for improvement because the technical support does not regularly update their documentation or the knowledge base."

"Visualization and monitoring need to be improved and refined."

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"I would like to see better integration with other tools."

"The support is not very good. The team is not well-trained, and resolving a ticket can require several discussions."

"Talend's architecture is complex to configure, especially due to the various components involved. It requires a more intricate setup."

"We encounter issues getting email notifications. They should provide enough information about the configuration process for email components."

"We are currently using version 7.3.1, but preferred the version before. The problem that we currently have is that Talend are releasing patches for Talend Studio every quarter. Our technical team has to be on top of these patches and constantly ensure everything is updated."

"Deployment can be difficult, but I didn't test the latest version yet. With Talend products, every release brings a lot of new features and functionalities. This is never a small adaptation, because the tool is maturing, but we need to test the latest version and to check its deployment capabilities."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are different versions of the product. One is the corporate license version, and the other one is the open-source or free version. I have been using the corporate license version, but they have recently launched a new open-source version so that anybody can create an account and use it. The licensing cost varies from customer to customer. I don't have a lot of input on that. It is taken care of by PMO, and they seem fine with its pricing model. It is being used enterprise-wide. They seem to have got a good deal for StreamSets."

"I believe the pricing is not equitable."

"The licensing is expensive, and there are other costs involved too. I know from using the software that you have to buy new features whenever there are new updates, which I don't really like. But initially, it was very good."

"The pricing is affordable for any business."

"StreamSets is an expensive solution."

"StreamSets Data Collector is open source. One can utilize the StreamSets Data Collector, but the Control Hub is the main repository where all the jobs are present. Everything happens in Control Hub."

"The overall cost is very flexible so it is not a burden for our organization... However, the cost should be improved. For small and mid-size organizations it might be a challenge."

"We are running the community version right now, which can be used free of charge."

More StreamSets pricing and cost advice

"There are no additional licensing fees when you scale"

"There are multiple subscriptions available with Talend, each with its own scope. Subscriptions depend on the number of users you have and how many remote engines you want to install."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

11%

Educational Organization

Insurance Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about StreamSets?

The best thing about StreamSets is its plugins, which are very useful and work well with almost every data source. It's also easy to use, especially if you're comfortable with SQL. You can customiz...

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What needs improvement with StreamSets?

One issue I observed with StreamSets is that the memory runs out quickly when processing large volumes of data. Because of this memory issue, we have to upgrade our EC2 boxes in the Amazon AWS infr...

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What is your primary use case for StreamSets?

We are using StreamSets for batch loading.

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What do you like most about Talend Data Fabric?

The initial setup is very easy.

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What needs improvement with Talend Data Fabric?

Data governance is still not mature. There is not much documentation available for it, and the maturity of the product does not meet my expectations. Master Data Management has been decommissioned,...

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What is your primary use case for Talend Data Fabric?

The main use cases for Talend Data Fabric include setting up a data lake to enable the data platform.

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Overview

StreamSets is a data integration platform that enables organizations to efficiently move and process data across various systems. It offers a user-friendly interface for designing, deploying, and managing data pipelines, allowing users to easily connect to various data sources and destinations. StreamSets also provides real-time monitoring and alerting capabilities, ensuring that data is flowing smoothly and any issues are quickly addressed.

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Talend, a leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, enables companies to transform by delivering trusted data at the speed of business.
Talend Data Fabric offers a single suite of apps that shorten the time to trusted data. Users can collect data across systems; govern it to ensure proper use, transform it into new formats and improve quality, and share it with internal and external stakeholders.

Over 3,000 global enterprise customers have chosen Talend to help them turn all their raw data into trusted data to make business decisions with confidence — including GE, HP Inc., and Domino’s.

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