Fivetran vs Matillion ETL comparison

Fivetran and Matillion are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Fivetran is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.9, while Matillion is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. Fivetran holds a 5.7% 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 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

7th

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 January 2025, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 5.7%, up from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Matillion ETL is 4.1%, down from 5.4% 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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Tomáš Hronek

Data Engineer at Merck

Used for wrangling or transforming data from sources like S3 and Databricks

I use Matillion ETL for wrangling or transforming data from sources like S3 and Databricks The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the UI experience in which you can drag and drop most of the transformation. Sometimes, we have issues with the solution's stability and need to restart it for…

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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

"Fivetran's most valuable feature is replication."

"The product has some seamless connectors, which are readily available."

"The user interface is mostly UI-based, eliminating the need for a lot of coding."

"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."

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

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

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

"It is not like a traditional ETL, but it gives quite a lot of flexibility."

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"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."

"We allow non-technical people to use Matillion to load data into our data warehouse for reporting. Thus, it is easy enough to use that we don't always have to get a technical person involved in setting up a data movement (ETL)."

"Matillion ETL helps manage data movement, ingestion, and transformation through pipelines."

"The technical support treats us well. They already have a support portal, and they are responsive, which helps."

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

"Matillion ETL has great Git integration that is perfect and convenient to use."

"It takes less than five minutes to set up and delivers results. It is much quicker than traditional ETL technologies."

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

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Cons

"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."

"Fivetran is very expensive for data sources with a lot of rows, such as email data. I would like to see cheaper pricing for data sources like that."

"An in-line data quality checking capability is missing"

"The environment must be more development-friendly."

"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."

"Fivetran would be improved by adding the ability to integrate the data from third-party APIs."

"The connections with SAP must be improved."

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

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"I am looking forward to seeing the expansion of the source range for their data loader product."

"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 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."

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

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

"Our main challenge currently is that Matillion runs on an EC2 instance, limiting us to running only two processes simultaneously at the entry level."

"Sometimes, we have issues with the solution's stability and need to restart it for three weeks or more."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"I've heard that the license for HVR is a bit costly compared to its competitors, but since it's reliable and efficient, I think the customer shouldn't be bothered about the cost."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"The product is reasonably expensive"

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

"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."

"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."

"I have heard from my manager and other higher ups, "This product is cheaper than other things on the market," and they have done the research."

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

"The price of Matillion ETL is reasonable."

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

"The solution's pricing is not based on the licensing cost but on the running hours when the Matillion instance is up and running."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

30%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 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.

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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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