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 5.5% mindshare in CDI, compared to Matillion’s 3.6% 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

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 February 2025, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 5.5%, up from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Matillion ETL is 3.6%, down from 4.9% 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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Sunny Kumar

Specialist Programmer at Infosys

High efficiency, performs well, and price well

The decision to use Matillion ETL depends on the specific requirements. If the requirements can be met without Matillion ETL in a short amount of time, then using it would be unnecessary. However, if dealing with large data sets and frequent data migrations to and from the cloud, then Matillion ETL would be a suitable choice. I have a lot of experience in this field of data and I was able to achieve results with Matillion ETL that I was not able to with the traditional approach. The solution is helpful for large amounts of data. I rate Matillion ETL an eight out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

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

"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's very easy and quick to set up. It also has a central hub as opposed to GoldenGate which is one direct interface. For GoldenGate I would have needed three interfaces whereas with HVR I have a central interface that manages everything."

"It is easy for users to get accustomed to the tool due to its gentle learning curve and clear error transparency."

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

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

"SysTrack load is the best feature."

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

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

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"It has improved the costs of managing my customer’s data."

"The tool's middle-dimensional structure significantly simplifies obtaining the right data at the appropriate level. This feature makes deploying our applications easier since we utilize a single source without publishing data from various sources."

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

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

"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."

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

"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is its user-friendly graphical interface."

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

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Cons

"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 interface needs to be more user-friendly."

"Fivetran could improve in the area of customization, especially in how they socialize their tools."

"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."

"We experience cost issues because Fivetran is charged on a usage basis. When you reach a certain level, the tool should focus on reducing the costs. The solution is expensive when you are moving gigabytes and petabytes of data. It should also focus more on REST APIs and webhooks."

"The environment must be more development-friendly."

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

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

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

"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."

"While the UI is good, it could be improved in its efficiency and made easier to use."

"It can have multi-environment support. We should be able to deploy it in different environments. Its integration with SAP connection is not so nice, which should be improved. It can also support an on-prem database."

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

"Performance can be improved for efficiency, and it can be made faster."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing model is okay and mid to large companies will not have an issue with it."

"The product is reasonably expensive"

"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."

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

"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 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 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."

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

"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."

"Matillion ETL is expensive."

"The prices needs to be lower."

"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."

"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."

"Purchasing it through the AWS Marketplace is pretty convenient. There is a little bit of back and forth in terms of the licensing based on the machine size, but it seems to have worked out well. it is convenient to have it all as part of our AWS billing."

"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."

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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

Healthcare Company

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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, 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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