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 7.8, while WhereScape is ranked #46. Fivetran holds a 2.2% 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 (6th)

WhereScape RED

Ranking in Data Integration

46th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 2.2%, 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.

Data Integration

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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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reviewer1618884

BI Analyst DW Architect at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

Quick to set up, flexible, and stable

The scheduling part I don't like due to the fact that it allows you to schedule as a parent and child and other things, however, the error trackability has to be a little more user-friendly. It's also not user-friendly in the sense that it loads all the jobs and there are not enough filters so that it doesn't need to load everything. If the job fails, you don't get any type of alert or email. It would be ideal if there was some sort of automated alert message. Technical support isn't the best. It would be ideal if we understood how to do it in a card exception regarding exclusion, where the card is captured separately rather than filling the whole process on the data inbound side. Certain workloads like this are organized in such a way where you seem to be doubling the work as opposed to streamlining the process.

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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

"The solution is stable. We've never faced any stability issues."

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

"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."

"Fivetran offers native connectivity with Sybase"

"The simplicity of the solution is its valuable feature."

"For us, Fivetran has been able to scale both in terms of the data we bring into our warehouse and the amount of data that we use as well."

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

"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."

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"I found the initial setup very easy."

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

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

"I like the data vault implementations."

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

"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."

"WhereScape RED has improved our business's ability to generate needed reporting without requiring a large team of developers to manually code all of the necessary plumbing."

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

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Cons

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The environment must be more development-friendly."

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

"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."

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

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"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."

"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."

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

"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."

"Technical support isn't the best."

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

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

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"The product is reasonably expensive"

More Fivetran pricing and cost advice

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

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

"ROI is at least 10 times."

"Our company purchased a corporate unlimited license."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

29%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

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Questions from the Community

What's the deal with the HVR software acquisition?

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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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