IBM App Connect vs Matillion ETL comparison

IBM and Matillion are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.2, while Matillion is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. IBM holds a 4.3% 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

Matillion ETL

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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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

9th

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 February 2025, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of IBM App Connect is 4.3%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Matillion ETL is 3.5%, down from 4.9% 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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Tomáš Hronek

Data Engineer at Merck

Used for wrangling or transforming data from sources like S3 and Databricks

I use Matillion ETL for wrangling or transforming data from sources like S3 and Databricks The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the UI experience in which you can drag and drop most of the transformation. Sometimes, we have issues with the solution's stability and need to restart it for…

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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 fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."

"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."

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

"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."

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

"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."

"The most valuable feature is the security."

"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."

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

"The new version with the Productivity Cloud is very simple. It's easy to use, navigate, and understand."

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

"The technical support treats us well. They already have a support portal, and they are responsive, which helps."

"It is pretty user-friendly, even for people who aren't super technical."

"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."

"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the ETL. The solution is open-source which provides advantages, such as good performance and high efficiency. Additionally, it supports three data types which eliminates predefining the data, and we can write script models in Python."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy."

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Cons

"Updates are constantly delayed."

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

"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."

"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 installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."

"The interface could be better."

"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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"The cost of the solution is high and could be reduced."

"The product must enhance its near-real-time data capture feature."

"When using the SQL loader type there were not a lot of pre-processing features for the data. For example, if there is a table with twenty columns, but we only want to load ten columns. In that case, we can use a security script to select the specific columns needed. However, if we want to perform extensive pre-processing of the data, I faced some challenges with Matillion ETL. I did not encounter many challenges, but my overall experience is limited as I only have three years of experience."

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

"While the UI is good, it could be improved in its efficiency and made easier to use."

"The tool's lineage is very weak."

"It can have multi-environment support. We should be able to deploy it in different environments. Its integration with SAP connection is not so nice, which should be improved. It can also support an on-prem database."

"There are certain functions that are available in other ETL tools which are still not present in Matillion ETL. It would be good to have more features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better."

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

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

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

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

"App Connect is not cheap."

"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."

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

"The solution is very cheap. You're paying $2.50 an hour and if you set your service up, which you can do, you're not getting charged. Currently, our ETL process is just an overnight process that runs for about an hour. I can start and stop my server just for an hour if I want to and spent $2.50 a day for an ETL solution. There are no additional costs."

"The solution's pricing is not based on the licensing cost but on the running hours when the Matillion instance is up and running."

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

"The cost of the solution is high and could be reduced."

"I have heard from my manager and other higher ups, "This product is cheaper than other things on the market," and they have done the research."

"Matillion ETL is expensive."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

59%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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

IBM

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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