Fivetran vs Matillion ETL comparison

Fivetran and Matillion are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Fivetran is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.8, while Matillion is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. Fivetran holds a 5.5% mindshare in CDI, compared to Matillion’s 4.1% 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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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Matillion ETL and Fivetran compete in the ETL and data integration market. Based on specific strengths, Matillion's integration with AWS and its intuitive interface give it an edge for cloud-native tasks, while Fivetran's efficient data migration and integration abilities shine in handling complex scenarios.

Features: Matillion ETL offers extensive features like built-in verification, mid-pipeline data sampling, and seamless integration with AWS services. It is advantageous for handling data from Salesforce and setting up ETL processes quickly. Fivetran excels in its data pipeline capabilities, managed connectors for business applications, and integration with DBT for data transformation.

Room for Improvement: Matillion needs more frequent API updates, better user documentation, and more integration options with various databases. Fivetran could improve by enhancing data pipeline observability, expanding its range of connectors, and offering more transparent pricing.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Matillion is primarily cloud-deployed, optimizing for AWS, and offers responsive customer support. Fivetran provides diverse deployment options, including on-premises and hybrid solutions, with strong technical support, though some delays in service speed are noted.

Pricing and ROI: Matillion provides flexible pricing through the AWS Marketplace, offering cost-effective solutions for different workloads. Fivetran's usage-based pricing can become costly for high data volumes but benefits larger companies due to its scalability. Matillion offers more predictable pricing for budgeting, whereas Fivetran provides cost advantages at larger scales.

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Categories and Ranking

Fivetran

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (13th), 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 December 2024, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 5.5%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Matillion ETL is 4.1%, down from 5.7% 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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AntonHaupt

Data Architect at Capitec

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.

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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

"There's the general feature of the platform where it just makes it very easy to integrate different things, but I would say a specific difference is their integration of DBT,."

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

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

"The ease of setting up the connectors and transformations is highly valuable."

"SysTrack load is the best feature."

"Fivetran's most valuable feature is replication."

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

"Its arrays are powerful enough to handle migrations even when the replication is happening in the background, without causing any trouble with the ongoing traffic."

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"The product's initial setup phase was easy."

"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the UI experience in which you can drag and drop most of the transformation."

"Matillion ETL is one hundred percent stable."

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

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

"The product has a good user interface."

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

"It's been able to do everything we require."

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Cons

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

"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."

"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."

"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."

"There was a random change to our contract in a unilateral manner after the first year. The overall cost of using Fivetran was then unclear and this is the reason I would not recommend this solution."

"The solution is very expensive. I would like to have a better integration of the solution with Azure."

"The connections with SAP must be improved."

"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."

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"Ideally, I would like it to integrate with Secrets Manager as well as the AWS."

"The current version is a bit more limited because it's on a virtual machine, and everything executes on that one virtual machine."

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

"I found some of the more complex aspects of ETL challenging, but I grasped the concepts fairly quickly."

"The product must enhance its near-real-time data capture feature."

"Unlike Snowflake which automatically takes care of upgrading to the latest version and includes additional features, with Matillion ETL we need to do this ourselves."

"It needs integration with more data sources."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing costs are extremely high for the usage of somebody who has one GB or two GB of usage per day for real-time traffic. There are many other players in the market which are similarly priced or competitively priced. On average per month, it used to come around 12,000-15,000 USD, which is very high."

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

"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."

"The solution is affordable."

"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 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."

"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."

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"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."

"It is cost-effective. Based on our use case, it's efficient and cheap. It saves a lot of money and our upfront costs are less."

"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."

"Matillion ETL is expensive."

"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."

"It is not necessarily a cheap solution. However, it's reasonable priced, especially with the smaller machines that we run it on."

"Its price depends on what you expect. You pay on a monthly basis, but there is a possibility to have special contracts depending on the installation."

"The price of Matillion ETL is reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

29%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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

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Fivetran

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Overview

Fivetran is a data integration and migration solution that centralizes data from various sources into a data warehouse (such as Snowflake or BigQuery) for analytics. Its most valuable features include replication and managed pipelines, integration with DBT for data transformation, and many source connections.

Fivetran is easy to use, with fast data migration and an intuitive portal for easy setup and troubleshooting. It has helped organizations integrate and manage data, saving time and resources.

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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