Fivetran vs WhereScape RED comparison

Fivetran and WhereScape are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Fivetran is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.9, while WhereScape is ranked #48. Fivetran holds a 2.3% mindshare in DI, compared to WhereScape’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Fivetran users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of WhereScape users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

WhereScape RED and Fivetran cater to different aspects of data management, excelling in specific areas. WhereScape RED shines in environments demanding high automation and quality assurance, whereas Fivetran is preferred for its simplicity and robust replication capabilities.

Features: WhereScape RED offers data warehouse automation with metadata-driven development, extensive documentation, and support for agile methods. Fivetran provides managed pipelines, easy integration with various data sources, and the ability to manage connectors individually.

Room for Improvement: WhereScape RED could improve its performance, scalability, change data capture support, and multi-database environment flexibility. Fivetran might enhance data pipeline observability, offer more connector options, and provide more competitive pricing and customization options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: WhereScape RED allows deployment in on-premises, public, and hybrid cloud environments, with highly praised customer service. Fivetran is primarily deployed in public and hybrid clouds, with a simpler deployment process due to its cloud-centric design, providing good customer service.

Pricing and ROI: WhereScape RED offers cost-effective licensing based on developer seats, facilitating scalability and swift ROI due to quick development cycles. Fivetran's consumption-based pricing can be expensive for high-volume usage, making it less affordable for smaller enterprises, with ROI being usage-dependent.

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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)

WhereScape RED

Ranking in Data Integration

48th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 2.3%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhereScape RED is 1.1%, up from 1.0% 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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it_user584544

Manager Data Warehousing at a university with 10,001+ employees

The architecture is based on metadata and documentation is automated.

I would love to see a GUI interface for defining dependencies between build processes. RED provides a spreadsheet like interface for defining the dependencies between builds. Once the dependencies are defined, RED can produce a nice dependency diagram to give a visualization of the dependency tree. It would be easier to define complex dependency relationships if the dependency diagram were interactive. Our legacy ETL tool provided this GUI dependency definition via a drag and drop diagram which was very useful. The solution provided by WhereScape does work, and the dependency diagrams generated are helpful. It would just be nice to have the ability to define dependencies via a diagram, since dependencies relationships are much easier to understand via a diagram.

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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 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."

"SysTrack load is the best feature."

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

"The simplicity and scalability are the strongest features of Fivetran."

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

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

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

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"I like the data vault implementations."

"Support is absolutely excellent, efficient, and timely."

"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."

"WhereScape is really helpful in terms of architecture data. Everything is one of automation. Two people can do thousands of tables in one day or two. It saves a lot of time."

"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."

"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."

"I found the initial setup very easy."

"RED has provided us the ability to integrate, stage, and transform data from diverse sources into an enterprise-grade data warehouse which meets the needs of my organization, but it also enables us to easily and quickly make ETL or DW changes."

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Cons

"The customization could improve because Fivetran gives more thought to people who don't want to manage analytics workflows rather than engineers who want to be able to customize pipelines more thoroughly."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"The connections with SAP must be improved."

"I would like to see an improvement in the support offered by Fivetran."

"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."

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"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."

"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."

"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."

"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."

"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."

"Customization could be better."

"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."

"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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"

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

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

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

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

More Fivetran pricing and cost advice

"ROI is at least 10 times."

"Speed to market of a warehouse solution at a relatively inexpensive price point."

"Our company purchased a corporate unlimited license."

"Factor in the price of specialized consulting who know this product. They're hard to find and expensive."

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Questions from the Community

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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.

WhereScape is data warehouse software that automates the Data Warehouse lifecycle. From implementation to maintenance, WhereScape will ensure your data warehouse projects are completed up to 5x faster than manual coding.

Sample Customers

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

British American Tobacco, Cornell University, Allianz Benelux, Finnair, Solarwinds and many more.

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