Fivetran vs Matillion ETL comparison

Fivetran and Matillion are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Fivetran is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.9, while Matillion is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.5. Fivetran holds a 5.6% mindshare in CDI, compared to Matillion’s 3.5% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Fivetran users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Matillion users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 9, 2025

Matillion ETL and Fivetran both compete in the data integration and ETL category. Matillion ETL seems to have the upper hand with its comprehensive control over data processing through its strong AWS integration, whereas Fivetran offers superior ease of data replication and integration.

Features: Matillion ETL offers built-in verification, scheduling, and a user-friendly graphical interface for non-technical users. It allows for strong integration with AWS services and handles complex data sources like Salesforce efficiently. Fivetran provides ease of data replication with managed pipelines and extensive connector support. It integrates seamlessly with tools like DBT and offers real-time syncing capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Matillion ETL could improve by providing more frequent API updates, enhancing performance efficiency, and better documentation. Fivetran needs better logging details, improved pipeline observability, and more transparent pricing. Addressing the high costs associated with heavy data usage is also necessary for Fivetran.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Matillion ETL is praised for its ease of deployment on public clouds and responsive customer service, supported by thorough documentation and regular updates. Fivetran also allows easy setup across various cloud platforms, yet faces criticism for its cost-effectiveness and support limitations. Matillion is noted for more responsive support compared to Fivetran.

Pricing and ROI: Matillion ETL's pay-as-you-go model based on cloud instance usage is viewed as flexible, offering competitive pricing for large organizations with ROI achievable within a year. Fivetran's data-usage-tier pricing can be costly, especially for high data consumption, making it less cost-effective for smaller companies. Both solutions achieve ROI within a year, but Matillion’s clear cost structure is preferred.

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Categories and Ranking

Fivetran

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (12th), Data Replication (3rd)

Matillion ETL

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 5.6%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Matillion ETL is 3.5%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Erik Jones

Head of BI and Analytics at HyperScience

Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI

Fivetran has room for improvement in data pipeline observability. The Fivetran logs are fairly basic, compared to, for example, the insight Fivetran gives into helping users understanding the performance of data pipelines. So I think their observability into the pipeline itself could be improved. In addition, Fivetran is in the very early stages of allowing other companies to access its metadata API, but that's something that could use improvement, and I know that they're working on right now. We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool. It would be nice if Fivetran offered both their regular offering plus the reverse ETL option as well.

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Jacques Du Preez

Chief Executive Officer at Intellinexus

Offers good user interface and easy to navigate

Our experience is mainly around using Snowflake Data Cloud with Matillion. And the two of them combined, offer superior performance and price point benefits. Using them together is very efficient because Matillion's processing and Snowflake's own scalability and consumption based on pushing down code work well together. They are very efficient. We've used Azure Data Factory (ADF) for integration. So that's an alternative, depending on customer choice for the integration. And then on AWS, a few of the other services, like Terraform, and S3 storage, and that's about it. It's on a case-by-case basis. If they've chosen ADF as a technology, then we implement using that choice.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The most important feature of the solution is its ability to build data pipelines in less time."

"Fivetran offers native connectivity with Sybase"

"Fivetran can perform data migration incredibly fast, depending on the source and target."

"The product is very easy to use and very easy to configure."

"Making the decision to implement Fivetran was supported by the fact that they have better connectors than other competitors."

"The compare feature is the most valuable piece of it."

"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."

"For us, Fivetran has been able to scale both in terms of the data we bring into our warehouse and the amount of data that we use as well."

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"It has good integrations with Amazon Redshift and other AWS services."

"The loading of data is the most valuable feature of Matillion ETL."

"The new version with the Productivity Cloud is very simple. It's easy to use, navigate, and understand."

"It is pretty user-friendly, even for people who aren't super technical."

"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the ETL. The solution is open-source which provides advantages, such as good performance and high efficiency. Additionally, it supports three data types which eliminates predefining the data, and we can write script models in Python."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the CDC (Change Data Capture) component."

"The simplicity of this tool is nice. It has a good graphical user interface. You can also do a lot of generic stuff in the tool. If there is good connectivity to a cloud database, such as Snowflake, and you can have a lot of Snowflake functionality in the tool."

"It has helped us to get onto the cloud quickly."

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Cons

"The customization could improve because Fivetran gives more thought to people who don't want to manage analytics workflows rather than engineers who want to be able to customize pipelines more thoroughly."

"Some of the pain points we're looking at are trying to integrate some of the items in the Microsoft stack, so SharePoint and Excel, and then some of the newer Azure services."

"The biggest area for improvement is in customization, particularly in how Fivetran socializes its tools."

"The interface needs to be more user-friendly."

"More connectors are needed for exotic, popular, and rising star portals."

"The documentation is decent, but it's hard to find information online about Fivetran. For example, if you try to search for an error code, you won't find much information about it in forums."

"I would like to see an improvement in the support offered by Fivetran."

"Fivetran should add more connectors because its competitors, like Airbyte, have more connectors."

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"One of the features that's in development is data privacy in the cloud, along with further SAP integration. For connectivity to SAP systems."

"The improvement area could be possible if the tool provides better integration capabilities with other ecosystems, including governance tools or data cataloging tools, as it is currently an area where the solution is lacking."

"The product's scalability needs improvement. Perhaps adding more connectors would be beneficial."

"To complete the pipeline, they might want to include some connectors which would put the data into different platforms. This would be helpful."

"Going forward, I would like them to add custom jobs, since we still have to run these outside of Matillion."

"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."

"When using the SQL loader type there were not a lot of pre-processing features for the data. For example, if there is a table with twenty columns, but we only want to load ten columns. In that case, we can use a security script to select the specific columns needed. However, if we want to perform extensive pre-processing of the data, I faced some challenges with Matillion ETL. I did not encounter many challenges, but my overall experience is limited as I only have three years of experience."

"Matillion ETL should include more enhanced capabilities for extracting data from the SAP systems."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Fivetran is very expensive, and its database-driven pricing model is outdated."

"I can't give exact amounts because that's based on usage, but it's more expensive than some of its competitors."

"In the first year, we were given a very good discount. It was approximately 20,000 Euros per year. In the third year, we purchased credit for two years and the price was 33,000 Euros per year."

"I rate the pricing a six out of ten."

"I don't have the exact information, but I know it is high, and it is on a yearly basis. There is no additional cost for what we're doing. We're always open to doing things cheaper, so we might potentially implement a different solution."

"When you have a lot of workflows and complex use cases, pricing goes down as you use it more."

"The solution is affordable."

"I would say they're a little bit on the expensive side, and their contract process is not particularly good, but there is a lot of potential flexibility."

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"The cost of the solution is high and could be reduced."

"A rough estimation of the cost is around 20,000 dollars a month, however, this is dependent on the machine used and how Matillion ETL is used."

"Matillion ETL has a pay-as-you-go pricing model of a few dollars per hour of runtime."

"The AWS pricing and licensing are a cost-effective solution for data integration needs."

"It was very easy to purchase through the AWS Marketplace, but it was also expensive."

"I think it is cost conscious. It used to be very cheap and they have more recently bumped up the pricing, so it is competitive now."

"The prices needs to be lower."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

27%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

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Questions from the Community

What's the deal with the HVR software acquisition?

As a user of HVR Software I followed this deal closely. Fivetran is apparently trying to establish more in its sector and by buying an already established data replication software, they become som...

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Does HVR Software provide reliable insights?

I honestly can't think of another data replication software that can give you better statistics and insight than HVR Software. There's the feature for topology and statistics and both of them can ...

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How much traffic can HVR Software handle?

As someone who works at a company where a high volume of information is replicated and has tried several data replication softwares, I can tell you that you're looking at the right one. HVR Softwar...

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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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

Overview

Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, is trusted by companies like OpenAI, LVMH, Pfizer, Verizon and Spotify to centralize data from SaaS applications, databases, files, and other sources into cloud destinations, including data lakes. With high-performance pipelines, seamless interoperability, and enterprise-grade security, Fivetran empowers organizations to modernize their data infrastructure, power analytics and AI, ensure compliance, and achieve transformative business outcomes. Learn more at Fivetran.com

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Matillion ETL is a powerful tool for extracting, transforming, and loading large amounts of data from various sources into cloud data warehouses like Snowflake. Its ability to load data dynamically and efficiently using metadata is a standout feature, as is its open-source ETL with good performance and high efficiency.

The solution has a graphical interface for jobs, is easily adjustable and extensible, and allows for scheduling and error reporting. Matillion ETL has helped organizations move to a cloud-based solution, bridge the gap between on-premises and on-cloud, and perform complex migration projects.

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Sample Customers

Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue, Morgan Stanley, OpenAI, LVMH, Pfizer, Verizon, SpotifyNational Australia Bank, Saks, Cemex, Okta, Dropbox, Pitney Bowes, World Fuel Services,Lufthansa, AutoZone, ASICS, ASOS, Coupa, Databricks, Hermes, New Relic, Intercom,Canva, Honeywell, Square, DocuSign, Nandos, Oldcastle Infrastructure

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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