Talend Open Studio Reviews

Name: Talend Open Studio
Brand: Talend
Rating: 4.0 (50 reviews)

4.0 out of 5

50 reviews
98% willing to recommend

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What is Talend Open Studio?

Talend Open Studio is a free, open source ETL tool for data integration and Big Data. The solution enables you to extract diverse datasets and normalize and transform them into a consistent format which can be loaded into a number of third-party databases and applications.

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Talend Open Studio is the #5 ranked solution in top Data Integration Tools. PeerSpot users give Talend Open Studio an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Talend Open Studio is most commonly compared to Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC): Talend Open Studio vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). Talend Open Studio is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 16% of all views.

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Jason Hale

Solution Architect at Waikato Regional Council

Talend is doing a lot of work at the moment, and it's not there yet, but the whole platform could be managed in a SaaS-type environment. You still need to have the Studio running on a virtual desktop or a PC. They will get to be able to do the whole thing inside your browser, so you don't need to install anything locally. It's down the track, and it's the nirvana that we were looking for in Boomi. But the biggest challenge they have is that the platform is so focused on the Studio for all of its development. They'll probably get there, but they have such a mature Studio client that it's a huge amount of work to get all of that functionality into a browser or SaaS platform. That's pretty much the biggest flaw with the Talend environment—being reliant on the Studio, which needed to be on a local machine. The only other thing is that you have to integrate into an API gateway. We're in Azure, so we use Microsoft Azure Gateway. It doesn't come with its own gateway, which is another sort of big plus side that we saw in Boomi. Talend isn't quite there yet with the API gateway. Other than that, it's bloody hard to find something because it just seems to be all good.

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Costin Marzea

CTO, Founder at SmartStreams Software

Sometimes, scalability is part of planning. It depends on what you mean by scalability. People talk a lot about it, but scalability is not always about system functionality. Sometimes, it may be planning the job you're doing. If you want to split it into several jobs or servers, you don't actually have to have it built in as a functionality. You can create a job using a loop, which runs and controls several jobs in a loop that may be controlled. Scaling should not always be part of the infrastructure based on whether the engine can scale or not. I think it's your plan or project that should scale and split, and you can define these parameters. These parameters include how many servers you want to run or how many executions you want to do on different parts of the data. It's not always an issue of the engine running. Sometimes, your database should be configured to support partitioning. The product may scale very well without partitioning, but if the basic response is very slow, you didn't solve the problem. You should solve the problems at a higher level, not just at the execution level. They should be solved at the database level and communication level, and you should have firewalls. We are trying to add to the open source the ability to generate code for containers and Kubernetes that exist in the subscription version. Once you do this, Kubernetes will take care of the scaling, so there is no problem.

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Azhagarasan Annadorai

Founder at Unknown.University

Comparing the plus and minus of other tools and will try and suggest what can be improved in Talend based on how other tools implemented certain features. Both Talend and Pentaho leverage open-source plugins. There are lots of open-source committees that build solutions as per their requirement; Say, for example, someone may have had a need to create a Tableau data extract from a certain database for the purpose of data visualization in Tableau. They may have created a plugin for this purpose and shared it with the market. We can always go into the market and search for a plugin that someone else created (for ex., to generate TDE files) when we have similar needs. Both Talend and Pentaho offer the 3rd party plugins in their market. This plugin market feature automatically extends/improves the tool capability. If somebody needs a particular feature, they can always build one and publish it for the other developers to use. Other than this, maybe if Talend had a few components, it's easier to deploy solutions; job scheduling is one. Currently, the job scheduler is a separate component within Nexus and is accessible over browser. It can be integrated within TOS (Talend Open Studio) so that we dont need to switch between the two. Nexus holds the repository of compiled program code. However, Nexus doesn't have the ability to keep the repository of the source code programs. That can be improved. Currently, Talend has a versioning feature, meaning the previous version can be named as 0.1 or 1.0 and the subsequent minor/major versions can be increased with incremental version numbers, however, it is not that great as a version control repository (such as VSS, CVS, Git, etc). If a Nexus-like tool can be used for maintaining versions of the underlying source code (not just for the compiled code), that would be great. Basically, version control can be improved.

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Talend Open Studio mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of Talend Open Studio in the Data Integration category stands at 5.8%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Data Integration	Jan 17, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jan 17, 2025	Download
Comparison	Talend Open Studio vs Azure Data Factory	Jan 17, 2025	Download
Comparison	Talend Open Studio vs Informatica PowerCenter	Jan 17, 2025	Download
Comparison	Talend Open Studio vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	Jan 17, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	4.0	N/A	93%	181 interviews Add to research
Azure Data Factory	4.0	10.8%	92%	89 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

Talend Open Studio stands out for its user-friendliness, customization, and strong data integration capabilities. Users appreciate the drag-and-drop interface, scalability, and variety of connectors. It connects seamlessly with various databases and supports automation. The open-source community offers numerous components, enhancing flexibility. Users value features like tMap, scripting options, and comprehensive ETL tools. Its ability to handle advanced tasks without extensive technical knowledge is seen as advantageous.

"Stability feels fine."
"You can use Talend SDK to develop your own components and add them to the product."
"Talend is significantly easier to use."

Room for Improvement

"There is a need for mastery in some areas."
"The solution should integrate with a version control system in the subscription versions to make it easy to work with and manage the version control."
"The only other thing is that you have to integrate into an API gateway. We're in Azure, so we use Microsoft Azure Gateway. It doesn't come with its own gateway, which is another sort of big plus side that we saw in Boomi. Talend isn't quite there yet with the API gateway."

Pricing

"The solution will be more expensive if you have a low data volume and a large number of developers."
"Pricing is always a challenge. It is quite an expensive model, but because the platform is so simple to use, we haven't had to purchase any additional licenses."
"For Talend Open Studio, there is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing cost. Talend Open Studio is a bit expensive, in my opinion."

Stability

Talend Open Studio is largely stable, with users noting improvements in recent versions. Some encountered issues with large jobs causing server restarts, while others reported stability related to Java limitations. A few mentioned the need for regular patches and server performance tuning. The majority confirm reliable performance and commend its maturity, rating stability between eight to nine out of ten. Stability issues seem fewer than other tools, although memory constraints and crashes are noted occasionally.

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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Talend Open Studio Features

Talend Open Studio has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Automatic identification of data types and potential errors
tMap module
Graphical conversion tools
Charts
Database SCD Tools
Business intelligence formats (Jasper, OLAP, SPSS, Splunk)
ETL and ELT support
Eclipse-based development tooling
Versioning
Large library of connectors
Data flow orchestration
File management without scripting
Data transformations

Talend Open Studio Benefits

There are several benefits to implementing Talend Open Studio. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Reduces the time taken to develop the integration.
Provides a wide selection of source and target connectors.
Monitor and manage problematic deployments with ease.
Allows developers to have the lowest cost of ownership for any solution.
Improves collaboration between different teams who need access to data.
Automated data integration process synchronizes the data and eases real time and periodic reporting, which would be time-consuming if done manually.
Achieve better data quality because data matures and improves over time.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Talend Open Studio solution.

Elio B., Data Integration Specialist/CTO at Asset messages, says, "The solution has a good balance between automated items and the ability for a developer to integrate and extend what he needs. Other competing tools do not offer the same grade of flexibility when you need to go beyond what is provided by the tool. Talend, on the other hand, allows you to expand very easily."

A Practice Head, Analytics at a tech services company mentions, “The data integration aspect of the solution is excellent. The product's data preparation features are very good. There's very useful data stewardship within the product. From a technical standpoint, the solution itself is pretty good. There are very good pre-built connectors in Talend, which is good for many clients or businesses, as, in most cases, companies are dealing with multiple data sources from multiple technologies. That is where a tool like Talend is extremely helpful.”

Prerna T., Senior System Executive at a tech services company, comments, “The best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups. With Salesforce, when we want to relate our child objects to their parent object, we need to create them via IDs. Then the upsert operation, which will allow you to relate a child object to the event, will have an external ID. That is the best thing which keeps it very sorted. I like that.”

An Implementation Specialist, Individual Contributor at a computer software company, states, “I can connect with different databases such as Oracle Database or SQL Server. It allows you to extract the data from one database to another. I can structure the data by filtering and mapping the fields.” He also adds, “It is very user-friendly. You need to know the basics of SQL development or SQL queries, and you can use this tool.”

PeerSpot user Badrakh V., Information System Architect at Astvision, explains, "The most valuable features are the ETL tools."

Talend Open Studio was previously known as Open Studio.