Melissa Data Quality vs Talend Data Quality comparison

Melissa and Talend are both solutions in the Data Quality category. Melissa is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.0, while Talend is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.0. Melissa holds a 2.9% mindshare in DQ, compared to Talend’s 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Melissa users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Talend users who would recommend it.

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Melissa Data Quality

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 6, 2025

Talend Data Quality and Melissa Data Quality compete in data management, with Talend offering greater features for data integration, while Melissa excels in data validation accuracy.

Features:Talend Data Quality is known for strong data profiling, data cleansing, and monitoring, making it a comprehensive data management solution. Melissa Data Quality specializes in address verification, geocoding, and real-time contact data enhancement, making it ideal for businesses focusing on accurate data verification.

Room for Improvement:Talend could improve on ease of setup and address better data visualization tools. It also lacks out-of-the-box components for some applications. Melissa could enhance its integration capabilities with third-party platforms, provide more flexible customization, and improve its batch processing speed for large datasets.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Talend supports both cloud and on-premises deployment, offering flexibility and adaptability. It is characterized by a steeper learning curve. Melissa offers a straightforward installation process with robust customer service, allowing for quicker integration and support.

Pricing and ROI:Talend’s higher initial cost is balanced by its extensive features that deliver high ROI for comprehensive data solutions. Melissa provides a cost-effective setup with a rapid ROI, focusing on specific data-quality functions essential for companies needing accuracy and precision.

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Melissa Data Quality vs. Talend Data Quality

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Categories and Ranking

Melissa Data Quality

Ranking in Data Quality

8th

Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Talend Data Quality

Ranking in Data Quality

5th

Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 2.9%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Talend Data Quality is 4.7%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Quality Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Talend Data Quality	4.7%
Melissa Data Quality	2.9%
Other	92.4%

Data Quality

Featured Reviews

GaryM

Data Architect at World Vision

SSIS MatchUp Component is Amazing

- Scalability is a limitation as it is single threaded. You can bypass this limitation by partitioning your data (say by alphabetic ranges) into multiple dataflows but even within a single dataflow the tool starts to really bog down if you are doing survivorship on a lot of columns. It's just very old technology written that's starting to show its age since it's been fundamentally the same for many years. To stay relavent they will need to replace it with either ADF or SSIS-IR compliant version. - Licensing could be greatly simplified. As soon as a license expires (which is specific to each server) the product stops functioning without prior notice and requires a new license by contacting the vendor. And updating the license is overly complicated. - The tool needs to provide resizable forms/windows like all other SSIS windows. Vendor claims its an SSIS limitation but that isn't true since pretty much all SSIS components are resizable except theirs! This is just an annoyance but needless impact on productivity when developing new data flows. - The tool needs to provide for incremental matching using the MatchUp for SSIS tool (they provide this for other solutions such as standalone tool and MatchUp web service). We had to code our own incremental logic to work around this. - Tool needs ability to sort mapped columns in the GUI when using advanced survivorship (only allowed when not using column-level survivorship). - It should provide an option for a procedural language (such as C# or VB) for survivor-ship expressions rather than relying on SSIS expression language. - It should provide a more sophisticated ability to concatenate groups of data fields into common blocks of data for advanced survivor-ship prioritization (we do most of this in SQL prior to feeding the data to the tool). - It should provide the ability to only do survivor-ship with no matching (matching is currently required when running data through the tool). - Tool should provide a component similar to BDD to enable the ability to split into multiple thread matches based on data partitions for matching and survivor-ship rather than requiring custom coding a parallel capable solution. We broke down customer data by first letter of last name into ranges of last names so we could run parallel data flows. - Documentation needs to be provided that is specific to MatchUp for SSIS. Most of their wiki pages were written for the web service API MatchUp Object rather than the SSIS component. - They need to update their wiki site documentation as much of it is not kept current. Its also very very basic offering very little in terms of guidelines. For example, the tool is single-threaded so getting great performance requires running multiple parallel data flows or BDD in a data flow which you can figure out on your own but many SSIS practitioners aren't familiar with those techniques. - The tool can hang or crash on rare occasions for unknown reason. Restarting the package resolves the problem. I suspect they have something to do with running on VM (vendor doesn't recommend running on VM) but have no evidence to support it. When it crashes it creates dump file with just vague message saying the executable stopped running.

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WesamHabboub

Chief Consultant at Insight360

Stands out for its user-friendly interface, robust community support, competitive pricing and strategic approach to improving data accuracy

Its greatest asset lies in its user-friendly interface, specifically within the Talend Open Studio, known for its ease of use and familiarity among users. The robust community support proves invaluable when encountering challenges, providing a reliable resource for issue resolution. Moreover, the pricing structure stands out as highly competitive compared to other offerings in the market, making it a cost-effective choice for users. The most valuable feature lies in the capability to assign data quality issues to different stakeholders, facilitating the tracking and resolution of defective work. This functionality enables a streamlined process for identifying, assigning, and subsequently addressing data quality issues.

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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

"We ran a standard name, address, and zip code, internal dedupe between the different files we had purchased, and we were able to quickly notify our vendor that they had tens of thousands of duplications that they were not even aware of."

"Enables us to send out bulk mailings when we need to verify NCOA."

"Address verification ensures our customers get their packages, and we aren’t charged for incomplete address information."

"We mainly communicate with our customers via email, so we primarily use it to find a phone number so we can contact them more efficiently. This allows us to talk to them and resolve their issues much more quickly."

"The high value in this tool is its relatively low cost, ease of use, tight integration with SSIS, superior performance (compared to competitors), and attribute-level advanced survivor-ship logic."

"It gives me an assessed value of the property in question. My partner and I are property investors, and it's good to get an assessed value to cull out properties that we're not interested in."

"We have only been using this for about two months, but it has sped up our processing significantly. It makes data mining easy and fast. We don't have to spend an entire month gathering correct information on leads. All we need is a list of home addresses, and in minutes we have names and phone numbers to increase our chance of these leads becoming customers."

"It cuts down significantly on time in trying to match names to addresses. I can do in a few hours what would otherwise take days to accomplish."

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"The features that I find to be the most valuable are the extensibility, the integration, and the ease of integration with multiple platforms."

"It’s easy to monitor the processes. Every morning I’ll open the Talend Administration Center to check the status of the process. Within seconds I’m able to see which process ran successfully and which have failed and why they failed."

"tLogRows are also great for finding bad data."

"I really like the fact that there are no out-of-the-box solutions regarding the development of jobs. Other vendors may have modules which cleanse your addresses. In Talend, you have the freedom to completely develop the process yourself. This can be tricky, but it also makes it fun."

"It has definitely streamlined certain processes."

"The numerous components provided by Talend mean you’re able to create jobs quickly and efficiently."

"It reduces the QA effort immensely by handling most of the test scenarios in a reusable way."

"The file fetch process is impeccable."

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Cons

"Speed of delivery/ease of use. They advertise a 24-hour, next business day turn time on data annotation, but I’ve found it is usually closer to 72 hours. This is still excellent, just make sure you add in the appropriate fluff to your delivery timelines."

"The tool needs to provide resizable forms/windows like all other SSIS windows. Vendor claims its an SSIS limitation however all SSIS components are resizable so that isn't true. This is just an annoyance but needless."

"One of the problems that we ran into this year was we probably spent over 40 hours finding and trying to drill down to where specific bugs were in the program, which was a tremendous waste of time for us. There were a couple of updates to Windows this year, the program kept crashing. It happened on two different occasions over a period of a few months. Once we told them what the problem was - even though their tech support is great to work with - it literally took probably about two months to fix the issue where we could actually use the program the way we needed to use it."

"It really hasn't given us a phone number for the owner of the property, and that's one thing I'd really like to be getting. Either a phone number or email."

"We would appreciate it if there was a larger database so that we could find information more often. For example, we can search for 10 people and only find the information for three of them, if we are lucky."

"The custom software solution we still use in-house makes Excel a lot slower than usual."

"It could always be cheaper."

"Needs to provide more phone numbers, even cell numbers (scrubbed numbers)."

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"In terms of the solution's technical support, the interactions were satisfactory, but there is room for improvement, especially in managing expectations."

"If the SQL input controls could dynamically determine the schema-based on the SQL alone, it would simplify the steps of having to use a manually created and saved schema for use in the TMap for the Postgres and Redshift components. This would make things even easier."

"The performance is one area that Talend Data Quality could improve in because large volumes take a lot of time."

"The ability to change the code when debugging the JavaScript could be improved."

"When we upgraded to Version 6.4.1, we tried using a GIT repository instead of a SVN repository. After a few incidents where things disappeared and changes were not saved, we decided to go back to a SVN repository."

"In redundancy analysis, the query is failing to bring non-matched records. This query is an internal script. There is no way (that I know of) to fix this syntax error for future runs."

"NullPointerExceptions are going to be the death of me and are a big reason for our transition away from Talend. One day, it is fine with a 1000 blank rows, then the next day, it will find one blank cell and it breaks down."

"I would say that some of the support elements need improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are concerned that our own pricing is going up every year for Melissa Data products, but we highly recommend the services for people who are routinely sending out mailings."

"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."

"Be sure to determine how the data is priced (record-based versus credit-based or some hybrid of data and services)."

"Depends on situation. We prefer to have data onsite, but some might prefer web access."

"The only complaint that I have towards it is they sell licenses based on a range of usage, and I feel those ranges are too large."

"Pricing is very reasonable."

"Fully understand your volume, both monthly and annually. Speak with a Melissa account manager, they will put together an effective solution to meet your needs."

"Buy a lot more credits than you think you’re going to need."

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"Moreover, the pricing structure stands out as highly competitive compared to other offerings in the market, making it a cost-effective choice for users."

"We did not purchase a separate license for DQ. It is part of our data platform suite, and I believe it is well-priced."

"It's a subscription-based platform, we renew it every year."

"It is cheaper than Informatica. Talend Data Quality costs somewhere between $10,000 to $12,000 per year for a seat license. It would cost around $20,000 per year for a concurrent license. It is the same for the whole big data solution, which comes with Talend DI, Talend DQ, and TDM."

"I would advise to first take a look and at the Open Studio edition. Figure out what you need and purchase the appropriate license."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Insurance Company

13%

Healthcare Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	14

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

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What do you like most about Talend Data Quality?

The most valuable feature lies in the capability to assign data quality issues to different stakeholders, facilitating the tracking and resolution of defective work.

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

There are many data quality tools available, but some can be expensive. Talend Data Quality stands out because it is often provided for free if you already have Talend Data Integration, which means...

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What needs improvement with Talend Data Quality?

Talend suite might have a missing product, particularly in the commercial master aspect. This would contribute to completing the overall picture, though the focus isn't necessarily on economic cons...

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Overview

Data Quality Components for SSIS

This suite of data transformations for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) delivers the full spectrum of data quality including data profiling, data verification, data enrichment and data matching. With an intuitive interface and drag/drop capabilities, this powerful toolkit makes it easy to unify data into a single version of the truth for Master Data Management (MDM) success.

Melissa

The data quality tools in Talend Open Studio for Data Quality enable you to quickly take the first big step towards better data quality for your organization: getting a clear picture of your current data quality. Without having to write any code, you can perform data quality analysis tasks ranging from simple statistical profiling, to analysis of text fields and numeric fields, to validation against standard patterns (email address syntax, credit card number formats) or custom patterns of your own creation.

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Sample Customers

Boeing Co., FedEx, Ford Motor Co, Hewlett Packard, Meade-Johnson, Microsoft, Panasonic, Proctor & Gamble, SAAB Cars USA, Sony, Walt Disney, Weight Watchers, and Intel.

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