Fivetran vs Talend Data Management Platform comparison

Fivetran and Talend are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Fivetran is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.9, while Talend is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.8. Fivetran holds a 2.2% mindshare in DI, compared to Talend’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Fivetran users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Talend users who would recommend it.

Fivetran

Read 25 Fivetran reviews

3,872 Views
2,678 Comparison Views

88% willing to recommend

Talend Data Management Plat...

Read 20 Talend Data Management Platform reviews

2,041 Views
1,736 Comparison Views

85% willing to recommend

Fivetran

Talend Data Management Plat...

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Talend Data Management Platform and Fivetran are competitors in the data management and integration market. Based on the comparison, Fivetran appears to hold an edge in ease of use and real-time syncing capabilities.

Features: Talend Data Management Platform offers robust tools for real-time data integration, a central repository for metadata sharing, and extensive monitoring capabilities. Its open-source ETL features and ease of use make it suitable for both data integration and quality tasks. Fivetran provides managed pipelines that simplify data replication and transformation, real-time syncing, and strong integration capabilities with tools like DBT.

Room for Improvement: Talend users face challenges with error resolution during installation, lack of multicore processing, and limited connection capabilities to certain applications like SAP and Oracle. Its documentation could be more accurate and user-friendly. Fivetran users want enhanced data pipeline observability, more customizable pricing, and expanded connector options for real-time processing along with better support documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Talend supports on-premises and cloud environments, offering flexibility for different deployment needs, but its technical support receives mixed reviews. Fivetran, as a cloud solution, is praised for its straightforward setup process. While its support services are generally satisfactory, some users seek improvements in response speed and support customization.

Pricing and ROI: Talend's pricing is higher, with a focus on developer licenses, yet offers flexible subscription models. It is seen as cost-effective compared to competitors like Informatica, with potential for significant ROI. Fivetran receives feedback on high costs for data-heavy cases, with pricing tied to data volume, making it challenging for smaller companies but sensible for larger enterprises, offering scalability with diminishing costs per data unit.

To learn more, read our detailed Fivetran vs. Talend Data Management Platform Report (Updated: January 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Fivetran vs. Talend Data Management Platform

January 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 832,138 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

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)

Talend Data Management Plat...

Ranking in Data Integration

21st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

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 Talend Data Management Platform is 1.3%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration

Featured Reviews

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.

Read full review

Srinivas Mamidipalli

Senior Technical Manager at YASH Technologies

Built for everything and packed with features but there are some monitoring limitations

Our company uses the solution to provide data integration services for customers. Most of our implementations are on-premises for large or enterprise-level customers. We have six users with experience in both the local studio and the enterprise versions. The solution can run on any machine and…

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

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

"You can manage all of your connectors individually, which gives you a very good ability to trace which one of your ETL processes is running and when."

"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."

"Fivetran is remarkably easy to use; I haven't encountered any other data integration tool that is as user-friendly."

"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,."

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

More Fivetran pros

"The solution is connected to various phones. It retrieves the configuration from the system."

"Talend Studio has the ability to connect to almost anything to integrate data from files, databases, web services, etc."

"They're very competitive in terms of performance, which is a good selling point. It has very rich features. It provides a very rich feature set in the application."

"The most valuable feature is integration."

"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to understand."

"The tool was mainly used for ETL processes to apply governance rules on data."

"I think Talend is one of the easiest tools for faster implementation compared to other tools."

"The most valuable feature is the data loading and scripting language"

More Talend Data Management Platform pros

Cons

"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."

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

"The environment must be more development-friendly."

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

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

"There is not a lot of options to customize the pipeline, and the cost is high."

"The connections with SAP must be improved."

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

More Fivetran cons

"I would like to sync a project and do an upload from that current version, and then from GitLab, be able to download the latest one."

"I've had some issues with bugs causing crashes, especially when making changes to the system or with the monthly upgrades to Studio they've introduced."

"Performance and speed could be improved."

"We'd like to see more connectors it the future."

"I think they should drive toward AI and machine learning. They could include a machine-learning algorithm for the deduplication."

"The documentation from version to version could be more accurate."

"Data management could also encompass APIs and real-time streaming data integration."

"The product must enhance the data quality."

More Talend Data Management Platform cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The solution is affordable."

"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."

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

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

"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 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 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."

More Fivetran pricing and cost advice

"License renewal is on a yearly basis."

"The tool is cheap."

"The price is on a per-user basis. It's a little more expensive than other tools. There aren't any additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"The licensing cost is about 40,000 Euros a year."

"The solution's pricing is very reasonable and half the cost of Informatica."

"The price of the Talend Data Management Platform is reasonable. The other competing solutions are priced high. Gartner Magic Quadrant identified other solutions, such as Informatica, that are far more expensive."

"The pricing is a little higher than what I had expected, but it's comparable with I-PASS competitors."

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Data Integration solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

832,138 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

31%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

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...

See all answers

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 ...

See all answers

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...

See all answers

What do you like most about Talend Data Management Platform?

We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Talend Data Management Platform?

Talend was an open-source tool, so there were no fees associated with it.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Talend Data Management Platform?

The biggest challenge with Talend was its performance. Sometimes data cleaning from the data warehouse was very slow, and we had to restart the server to enhance performance.

See all answers

Comparisons

AWS Database Migration Service vs Fivetran

Compared 16% of the time

Oracle GoldenGate vs Fivetran

Compared 13% of the time

Qlik Replicate vs Fivetran

Compared 9% of the time

Azure Data Factory vs Fivetran

Compared 8% of the time

Confluent vs Fivetran

Compared 6% of the time

More Fivetran Competitors

Talend Open Studio vs Talend Data Management Platform

Compared 22% of the time

Collibra Catalog vs Talend Data Management Platform

Compared 14% of the time

Talend Data Fabric vs Talend Data Management Platform

Compared 12% of the time

Ab Initio Co>Operating System vs Talend Data Management Platform

Compared 10% of the time

SAP Data Services vs Talend Data Management Platform

Compared 9% of the time

More Talend Data Management Platform Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Fivetran

February 2025

Download Fivetran product report

Buyer's Guide

Talend Data Management Platform

January 2025

Download Talend Data Management Platform product report

Also Known As

No data available

Talend Integration Suite

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.

Fivetran

Talend offers robust data integration in an open and scalable architecture to maximize its value to your business. Simple, graphical tools and wizards get you up and running quickly with native code generation that streamlines development.

Talend

Sample Customers

DocuSign, Oldcastle Infrastructure, Crossmedia, Talkdesk, Chubbies, Brandwatch

Accent Group, Acticall, Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, Car & Boat Media, Cdiscount.com

Buyer's Guide

Fivetran vs. Talend Data Management Platform

January 2025

Free Report: Fivetran vs. Talend Data Management Platform

Find out what your peers are saying about Fivetran vs. Talend Data Management Platform and other solutions. Updated: January 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

832,138 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Fivetran vs. Talend Data Management Platform report.

See our list of best Data Integration vendors and best Cloud Data Integration vendors.

We monitor all Data Integration reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.