IBM App Connect vs Matillion ETL comparison

IBM and Matillion are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2, while Matillion is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.5. IBM holds a 4.4% mindshare in CDI, compared to Matillion’s 3.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Matillion users who would recommend it.

IBM App Connect

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100% willing to recommend

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

IBM App Connect and Matillion ETL compete in the integration and ETL solutions category. Based on features comparison, IBM App Connect seems to have the upper hand due to its security and extensive integration capabilities.

Features: IBM App Connect offers exceptional security features, an array of connectors, and is highly reliable, making it ideal for complex integrations within IBM's ecosystem. Matillion ETL is known for its simplicity and AWS service integration, featuring excellent data sampling, pipeline options, and a user-friendly interface conducive to Agile environments.

Room for Improvement: IBM App Connect could improve its audit logging, expand third-party connector support, and enhance clustering features. Matillion ETL users suggest more frequent API updates, better data streaming capabilities, and wider integration with data sources.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM App Connect enables versatile deployment in on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments, though it may require significant support. Matillion ETL focuses on cloud deployment, with simple onboarding via AWS Marketplace; its technical support is rated positively, though there are reports of non-immediate responses.

Pricing and ROI: IBM App Connect has a high pricing structure suited for enterprises, with ROI realized through centralized integration. Matillion ETL follows a consumption-based pricing model, offering low entry costs but potentially high expenses based on usage, appreciated for specific cost-effectiveness.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 March 2025, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of IBM App Connect is 4.4%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Matillion ETL is 3.5%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Mehdi El Filahi

Co-Founder at tenekit

Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times

There is room for improvement in the logging messages. Sometimes, if you put someone new into App Connect, they can abandon it the same day. The logging is really painful. However, IBM has made efforts to integrate with Elasticsearch for logging, so that's an improvement. Overall, the logging can be difficult at times. One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient. Back in 2013, I worked with Sonic ESB, and even then, it had CI/CD with Maven. With App Connect, you need to build everything yourself when using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, or CircleCI. IBM really needs to provide official support for this.

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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

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

Pros

"I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's likely an adapter for that."

"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."

"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."

"One of the most beneficial features is the ability to handle multiple communication technologies, like integrating Kafka flows, which is helpful as other teams heavily use it. Regarding error handling, I initially wrote most of the handling myself. While built-in features for error handling are built-in, it largely depends on the developer. We use a custom solution that catches all exceptions, logs them in a database, and replays them as needed. It has been effective for us for over twenty years."

"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."

"Provides good security features."

"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."

"The most valuable feature is the security."

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"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."

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

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

"It's been able to do everything we require."

"The simplicity of this tool is nice. It has a good graphical user interface. You can also do a lot of generic stuff in the tool. If there is good connectivity to a cloud database, such as Snowflake, and you can have a lot of Snowflake functionality in the tool."

"It takes less than five minutes to set up and delivers results. It is much quicker than traditional ETL technologies."

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

"It's highly scalable. It takes upon itself the Redshift scalability, so it's very good."

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Cons

"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."

"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."

"The product should improve its support."

"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."

"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."

"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."

"Finding developers for the product is difficult since it is a niche solution. I know the OpenShift environment is running well for the microservice environment. We had some issues with the other environment we tried to implement. It can be easily implemented internally, but we have some problems in practice."

"I've been using IBM App Connect for about twenty-five years, and while I like it, there are some areas for improvement. The trace policy is ridiculous, and the biggest issue is the cost—it's expensive. People would use it much more if the price point weren't so high."

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"I found some of the more complex aspects of ETL challenging, but I grasped the concepts fairly quickly."

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

"The product's scalability needs improvement. Perhaps adding more connectors would be beneficial."

"I am looking forward to seeing the expansion of the source range for their data loader product."

"It needs integration with more data sources."

"Unlike Snowflake which automatically takes care of upgrading to the latest version and includes additional features, with Matillion ETL we need to do this ourselves."

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

"In the next release, we would like to have connections to more databases."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal."

"The licensing cost for IBM App Connect is very high."

"The price could be better."

"IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products."

"App Connect is not cheap."

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

"It is very expensive if we want to scale."

"Initially, App Connect was quite expensive because the cost was based on the number of processors we used. However, it's now based on containers, which means we can be more specific about our consumption and get a better price."

"Matillion ETL has a pay-as-you-go pricing model of a few dollars per hour of runtime."

"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."

"Matillion ETL is expensive."

"The AWS pricing and licensing are a cost-effective solution for data integration needs."

"The pricing depends on what edition the customer opts for. For example, the standard edition is priced at $2.00 per credit. And you are only charged when you use it. You're not charged when it's idle."

"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."

"A rough estimation of the cost is around 20,000 dollars a month, however, this is dependent on the machine used and how Matillion ETL is used."

"It is not necessarily a cheap solution. However, it's reasonable priced, especially with the smaller machines that we run it on."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

57%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM App Connect?

I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's like...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM App Connect?

IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products.

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What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?

Our company has a big project for delivery and e-commerce sites. We use IBM App Connect to deliver information to our end users after they buy our products. We get information from many places, suc...

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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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Also Known As

IBM Cast Iron

Matillion ETL for Redshift, Matillion ETL for Snowflake, Matillion ETL for BigQuery

Overview

Rapidly connect public clouds, private clouds and on-premises application

App Connect Professional is IBM’s cloud integration offering which delivers an integration solution
• With ease-of-use, flexibility and increased responsiveness to the evolving business needs, while removing the daunting complexities of integration.
• Provides the powerful combination of a ‘simple integration experience’ for business users looking to automate how their applications talk to each other; coupled with a ‘configuration based integration’ approach for IT.
• App Connect Professional is for the teams and integration developers who need to solve more complex problems and need powerful tooling for integration scenarios

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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.

Matillion

Sample Customers

United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.

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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