Fivetran vs Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics comparison

Fivetran and Hitachi Vantara are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Fivetran is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.9, while Hitachi Vantara is ranked #23 with an average rating of 7.7. Fivetran holds a 2.2% mindshare in DI, compared to Hitachi Vantara’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Fivetran users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Hitachi Vantara users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Pentaho Data Integration and Fivetran are both prominent tools in the data integration category. Fivetran may have the upper hand due to its simplicity and ease of integration as highlighted in various comparisons.

Features: Pentaho Data Integration offers a robust graphical user interface and supports a wide range of data sources, including big data technologies. With drag-and-drop functionality, it enables users, even with minimal programming knowledge, to quickly execute data transformations. Fivetran excels in providing automated data pipelines and real-time data synchronization. Its integration capabilities are facilitated through pre-built connectors, reducing the need for extensive development work. Both tools have strong points in ensuring efficient data management, with Pentaho appealing to users who prefer flexibility and community-driven support, while Fivetran is suited for those seeking straightforward implementation.

Room for Improvement: Pentaho's performance with large data volumes could benefit from enhancements, specifically in logging and documentation. There is also a need for better support for Hadoop utilities and improvements in user-defined classes. Fivetran requires greater customization options and improved visibility into data pipelines. Lower pricing models could be more attractive to its users, alongside a demand for more comprehensive logging and faster development of new connectors.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pentaho provides flexible deployment options across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, though it might necessitate more technical skills for deployment. Its community offers extensive support compensating for less formal backing. Fivetran facilitates seamless cloud and hybrid cloud deployments with strong automation, benefiting users with its more organized and responsive support system.

Pricing and ROI: Pentaho’s Community Edition presents an attractive cost-benefit for cost-conscious organizations, although its enterprise version can become expensive with increased usage. Conversely, while Fivetran's services may come at a higher price, the cost is justified by efficient integrations and lower maintenance requirements. Its scalable pricing based on data volume is especially appealing to larger enterprises with significant data needs.

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Categories and Ranking

Fivetran

Ranking in Data Integration

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Replication (3rd), Cloud Data Integration (7th)

Pentaho Data Integration an...

Ranking in Data Integration

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 2.2%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is 1.4%, up from 0.5% 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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Ryan Ferdon

Senior Data Engineer at Burgiss

Low-code makes development faster than with Python, but there were caching issues

If you're working with a larger data set, I'm not so sure it would be the best solution. The larger things got the slower it was. It was kind of buggy sometimes. And when we ran the flow, it didn't go from a perceived start to end, node by node. Everything kicked off at once. That meant there were times when it would get ahead of itself and a job would fail. That was not because the job was wrong, but because Pentaho decided to go at everything at once, and something would process before it was supposed to. There were nodes you could add to make sure that, before this node kicks off, all these others have processed, but it was a bit tedious. There were also caching issues, and we had to write code to clear the cache every time we opened the program, because the cache would fill up and it wouldn't run. I don't know how hard that would be for them to fix, or if it was fixed in version 10. Also, the UI is a bit outdated, but I'm more of a fan of function over how something looks. One other thing that would have helped with Pentaho was documentation and support on the internet: how to do things, how to set up. I think there are some sites on how to install it, and Pentaho does have a help repository, but it wasn't always the most useful.

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Pros

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

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

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

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

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

"The most valuable feature of Fivetran is that it only synchronizes what needs to be synchronized."

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

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"It has improved our data integration capabilities."

"Lumada has allowed us to interact with our employees more effectively and compensate them properly. One of the cool things is that we use it to generate commissions for our salespeople and bonuses for our warehouse people. It allows us to get information out to them in a timely fashion. We can also see where they're at and how they're doing."

"The fact that it enables us to leverage metadata to automate data pipeline templates and reuse them is definitely one of the features that we like the best. The metadata injection is helpful because it reduces the need to create and maintain additional ETLs. If we didn't have that feature, we would have lots of duplicated ETLs that we would have to create and maintain. The data pipeline templates have definitely been helpful when looking at productivity and costs."

"The product is user-friendly and intuitive"

"The fact that it's a low-code solution is valuable. It's good for more junior people who may not be as experienced with programming."

"We can schedule job execution in the BA Server, which is the front-end product we're using right now. That scheduling interface is nice."

"The graphical nature of the development interface is most useful because we've got people with quite mixed skills in the team. We've got some very junior, apprentice-level people, and we've got support analysts who don't have an IT background. It allows us to have quite complicated data flows and embed logic in them. Rather than having to troll through lines and lines of code and try and work out what it's doing, you get a visual representation, which makes it quite easy for people with mixed skills to support and maintain the product. That's one side of it."

"One of the valuable features is the ability to use PL/SQL statements inside the data transformations and jobs."

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Cons

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

"This solution needs to improve its real-time data and transformation availability."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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 documentation can be laid out better to make it easier to find things, and I really wish there was built-in support for changing passwords. Some features don't work as advertised for the platform/repository database, and HVR is not always the fastest at getting results."

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"I work with the Community Edition, therefore I do not have support. There was an issue that I could not resolve with community support."

"Since Hitachi took over, I don't feel that the documentation is as good within the solution. It used to have very good help built right in."

"I work with different databases. I would like to work with more connectors to new databases, e.g., DynamoDB and MariaDB, and new cloud solutions, e.g., AWS, Azure, and GCP. If they had these connectors, that would be great. They could improve by building new connectors. If you have native connections to different databases, then you can make instructions more efficient and in a more natural way. You don't have to write any scripts to use that connector."

"If you're working with a larger data set, I'm not so sure it would be the best solution. The larger things got the slower it was."

"Larger data jobs take more time to execute."

"The product needs more plugins."

"If you develop it on MacBook, it'll be quite a hassle."

"I could not connect to our Hadoop environment in an easy and flexible way, and it was important to scale our data warehouse."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The product is reasonably expensive"

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

"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."

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

"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."

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"I use it because it is free. I download from their page for free. I don't have to pay for a license. With other tools, I have to pay for the licenses. That is why I use Pentaho."

"Sometimes we provide the licenses or the customer can procure their own licenses. Previously, we had an enterprise license. Currently, we are on a community license as this is adequate for our needs."

"I believe the pricing of the solution is more affordable than the competitors"

"We are using the Community Edition. We have been trying to use and sell the Enterprise version, but that hasn't been possible due to the budget required for it."

"For most development tasks, the Enterprise edition should be sufficient. It depends on the type of support that you require for your production environment."

"If a company is looking for an ETL solution and wants to integrate it with their tech stack but doesn't want to spend a bunch of money, Pentaho is a good solution"

"There was a cost analysis done and Pentaho did favorably in terms of cost."

"I primarily work on the Community Version, which is available to use free of charge."

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Educational Organization

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Computer Software Company

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

15%

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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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Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?

Hi Rajneesh, yes here is the feature comparison between the community and enterprise edition : https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/brochure/leverage-open-source-benefits-with-assurance-of-hita...

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What do you think can be improved with Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations?

In my opinion, the reporting side of this tool needs serious improvements. In my previous company, we worked with Hitachi Lumada Data Integration and while it does a good job for what it’s worth, ...

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What do you use Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations for most frequently?

My company has used this product to transform data from databases, CSV files, and flat files. It really does a good job. We were most satisfied with the results in terms of how many people could us...

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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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Pentaho Data Integration stands as a versatile platform designed to cater to the data integration and analytics needs of organizations, regardless of their size. This powerful solution is the go-to choice for businesses seeking to seamlessly integrate data from diverse sources, including databases, files, and applications. Pentaho Data Integration facilitates the essential tasks of cleaning and transforming data, ensuring it's primed for meaningful analysis. With a wide array of tools for data mining, machine learning, and statistical analysis, Pentaho Data Integration empowers organizations to glean valuable insights from their data. What sets Pentaho Data Integration apart is its maturity and a vibrant community of users and developers, making it a reliable and cost-effective option. Pentaho Data Integration offers a range of features, including a comprehensive ETL toolkit, data cleaning and transformation capabilities, robust data analysis tools, and seamless deployment options for data integration and analytics solutions, making it a go-to solution for organizations seeking to harness the power of their data.

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