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Alteryx Designer vs Matillion ETL comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Alteryx Designer
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (11th)
Matillion ETL
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Data Integration and Access solutions, they serve different purposes. Alteryx Designer is designed for Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 3.3%, down 4.3% compared to last year.
Matillion ETL, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Data Integration, holds 4.4% mindshare, down 6.0% since last year.
Data Integration
Cloud Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Ajay Nayak - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 28, 2023
An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support
With Alteryx, we mostly fetch data from SQL, SQL server databases, and SharePoint. Some team members were doing the task using Excel for a long time with Macros and Excel functions like VLOOKUP, and these things become quite easy when you are using Alteryx as a solution. We have automated the…
AntonHaupt - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 23, 2024
Efficient data integration and transformation with seamless cloud-native integration
In our small business unit, we currently have around four users, with two of them utilizing Matillion within our organization. Considering our growing needs, we're contemplating transitioning to an enterprise SaaS solution where we would share the same instance. Currently, each user is billed individually, but consolidating to a shared instance seems more efficient. Scalability is excellent when using the SaaS solution, easily reaching a rating of ten out of ten. Each data pipeline request is encapsulated within a Docker container and spun off, allowing for instant scalability. Overall, I would rate it a nine out of ten in terms of performance and scalability.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I like Alteryx's browser tool because you can view how your data is handled live. There are many other valuable tools like transpose and the crosstab. You can quickly pivot your data, and there are connections throughout the database. It's so easy to create a connection. If you connect to sign apps or a more complex database, the tool contains all the tools you need."
"Alteryx Designer is stable."
"I believe in the ability to connect to multiple data sources, as well as the ease of use to transform data and output data in a variety of formats."
"One of the things I like about Alteryx Designer is how easy it is to connect numerous data inputs, including API connectors. This helps tremendously in reducing the time required to extract data from systems like SAP that don't have straightforward connectivity options."
"Alteryx Designer's user interface is great, as it is very user-friendly."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The functionality of drag and drop is the most valuable. It is a very user-friendly tool that can be understood easily. My teams also work with other solutions, such as Integration Services, and these solutions are very difficult for people who don't have technical knowledge."
"Alteryx is quite easy to use, learn, and understand as a product."
"The product is quite stable and can handle complex data integration tasks well."
"Matillion ETL helps manage data movement, ingestion, and transformation through pipelines."
"It has good integrations with Amazon Redshift and other AWS services."
"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the UI experience in which you can drag and drop most of the transformation."
"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is its user-friendly graphical interface."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It's highly scalable. It takes upon itself the Redshift scalability, so it's very good."
"It is pretty user-friendly, even for people who aren't super technical."
 

Cons

"Alteryx could move faster to create a cloud equivalent of the desktop version of Designer."
"The product could offer more connectors and more databases with support for the in-database function."
"It would be simpler if they provided a component where you could simply enter some parameters and see the results."
"Alteryx's data science and machine learning capabilities are where it loses out to DataIQ."
"We need more documentation."
"Alteryx Designer's pricing and support could be improved."
"Improving the key-based sign-on process and making it more user-friendly would be a benefit."
"Sometimes, while getting data from a third-party product, the solution works slowly."
"In the next release, we would like to have connections to more databases."
"Performance can be improved for efficiency, and it can be made faster."
"While the UI is good, it could be improved in its efficiency and made easier to use."
"The product's scalability needs improvement. Perhaps adding more connectors would be beneficial."
"There are certain functions that are available in other ETL tools which are still not present in Matillion ETL. It would be good to have more features."
"Matillion ETL should include more enhanced capabilities for extracting data from the SAP systems."
"Matillion’s on-premises capabilities don’t allow you to build something customized."
"The current version is a bit more limited because it's on a virtual machine, and everything executes on that one virtual machine."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licenses are expensive, making it difficult to consider acquiring additional licenses to the existing ones."
"The pricing is bit expensive."
"The solution is expensive. It has license fees, which are renewable every year."
"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."
"Alteryx Designer is a very expensive solution."
"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."
"I rate the product's pricing a two to three out of ten."
"It is too expensive for our country. We are a small country, so it is too difficult to sell this solution. With Alteryx Designer, if you want to automate the data and run the flows, you have to pay more money. We were trying to automate the flows, and we found out that people have to pay 600 more for this feature, which makes it even more expensive. We are a partner for Tableau, and we are working with Tableau Prep, which is like a mini Alteryx. In Tableau Prep, you can drag and drop and make new connections with the different data sources. You can make all the connections. You can also publish a source. You don't have to pay more money with Tableau. You pay like $5 per user per month to access it."
"The AWS pricing and licensing are a cost-effective solution for data integration needs."
"Matillion ETL is expensive."
"The pricing depends on what edition the customer opts for. For example, the standard edition is priced at $2.00 per credit. And you are only charged when you use it. You're not charged when it's idle."
"The solution is very cheap. You're paying $2.50 an hour and if you set your service up, which you can do, you're not getting charged. Currently, our ETL process is just an overnight process that runs for about an hour. I can start and stop my server just for an hour if I want to and spent $2.50 a day for an ETL solution. There are no additional costs."
"The price of Matillion ETL is reasonable."
"The solution's pricing is not based on the licensing cost but on the running hours when the Matillion instance is up and running."
"It was procured through the AWS Marketplace because it keeps things simple. They offer retail-like checkout and bill through your existing Amazon Web Services account."
"The absence of licensing commitments makes it easy to experiment with the tool, and if we decide it's not suitable, we can simply stop the ETL instance and cease incurring charges."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
23%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alteryx Designer?
When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alteryx Designer?
The solution is expensive. It has license fees, which are renewable every year.
What needs improvement with Alteryx Designer?
Alteryx Designer is not as fast as SSIS and is not good for large datasets. It also needs to improve database procedures. Though it is easy to use, it is limited in terms of technical aspects.
What do you like most about Matillion ETL?
The new version with the Productivity Cloud is very simple. It's easy to use, navigate, and understand.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Matillion ETL?
The solution's pricing is not based on the licensing cost but on the running hours when the Matillion instance is up and running. Its pricing model is different from the traditional pricing models ...
What needs improvement with Matillion ETL?
Depending on the use case, the solution's pricing could be improved. Matillion ETL should include more enhanced capabilities for extracting data from the SAP systems.
 

Comparisons

 

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Matillion ETL for Redshift, Matillion ETL for Snowflake, Matillion ETL for BigQuery
 

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Sample Customers

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Thrive Market, MarketBot, PWC, Axtria, Field Nation, GE, Superdry, Quantcast, Lightbox, EDF Energy, Finn Air, IPRO, Twist, Penn National Gaming Inc
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