Palantir Foundry vs Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics comparison

Palantir and Hitachi Vantara are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Palantir is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.0, while Hitachi Vantara is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.7. Palantir holds a 2.8% mindshare in DI, compared to Hitachi Vantara’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Palantir users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Hitachi Vantara users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Pentaho Data Integration and Palantir Foundry compete in the data integration and ETL solutions category. While Pentaho is favored for its cost-effectiveness and ease of use, Palantir Foundry has the upper hand with advanced features and stronger data visualization capabilities.

Features: Pentaho Data Integration is popular due to its open-source nature, ease of use, and support for various data formats and databases. Its intuitive interface allows users to develop ETL solutions with minimal coding. Palantir Foundry offers advanced data integration and seamless pipelining features. It includes strong data visualization capabilities and offers a comprehensive tech stack within a single platform.

Room for Improvement: Pentaho could benefit from better integration with specific databases and enhanced error logging. Improvements to the community version's features are also suggested. Users of Palantir Foundry find the solution expensive and seek better user documentation and frontend capabilities. Its integration with external systems could be more intuitive and detailed error messages are needed.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pentaho provides flexibility with on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments but relies heavily on community support for its non-enterprise version. Customer service response times vary. Palantir Foundry is primarily deployed in the public cloud, offering excellent customer service and technical support, although resolution of complex issues may take time.

Pricing and ROI: Pentaho Data Integration is noted for its cost-effectiveness, especially the free Community Edition. The enterprise version, though not free, remains affordable compared to competitors. Palantir Foundry is known for its high cost, perceived as justified by its extensive feature set and centralized tooling, providing value through contract negotiations for larger organizations.

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Categories and Ranking

Palantir Foundry

Ranking in Data Integration

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Operations Analytics (9th), Supply Chain Analytics (1st), Cloud Data Integration (14th), Data Migration Appliances (4th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data and Analytics Service Providers (1st)

Pentaho Data Integration an...

Ranking in Data Integration

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Palantir Foundry is 2.8%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is 1.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Rama Subba Reddy Thavva

Solution Architect at Mercedes-Benz AG

A low-code/no-code platform with a user-friendly UI

We couldn't implement or use some of the latest functionalities, like Spark. Palantir Foundry is scalable, but it is costly compared to other cloud providers. The solution is more suitable for small and medium businesses. It might be difficult for large enterprises. I rate the solution’s scalability a seven out of ten.

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Ryan Ferdon

Senior Data Engineer at Burgiss

Low-code makes development faster than with Python, but there were caching issues

If you're working with a larger data set, I'm not so sure it would be the best solution. The larger things got the slower it was. It was kind of buggy sometimes. And when we ran the flow, it didn't go from a perceived start to end, node by node. Everything kicked off at once. That meant there were times when it would get ahead of itself and a job would fail. That was not because the job was wrong, but because Pentaho decided to go at everything at once, and something would process before it was supposed to. There were nodes you could add to make sure that, before this node kicks off, all these others have processed, but it was a bit tedious. There were also caching issues, and we had to write code to clear the cache every time we opened the program, because the cache would fill up and it wouldn't run. I don't know how hard that would be for them to fix, or if it was fixed in version 10. Also, the UI is a bit outdated, but I'm more of a fan of function over how something looks. One other thing that would have helped with Pentaho was documentation and support on the internet: how to do things, how to set up. I think there are some sites on how to install it, and Pentaho does have a help repository, but it wasn't always the most useful.

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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 provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."

"The data lineage is great."

"Encapsulates all the components without the requirement to integrate or check compatibility."

"The AI engine that comes with Palantir Foundry is quite interesting."

"It's scalable."

"Great features available in one tool."

"The virtualization tool is useful."

"The ease of use is my favorite feature. We're able to build different models and projects or combine different projects to build one use case."

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"We use Lumada’s ability to develop and deploy data pipeline templates once and reuse them. This is very important. When the entire pipeline is automated, we do not have any issues in respect to deployment of code or with code working in one environment but not working in another environment. We have saved a lot of time and effort from that perspective because it is easy to build ETL pipelines."

"It has improved our data integration capabilities."

"The fact that it enables us to leverage metadata to automate data pipeline templates and reuse them is definitely one of the features that we like the best. The metadata injection is helpful because it reduces the need to create and maintain additional ETLs. If we didn't have that feature, we would have lots of duplicated ETLs that we would have to create and maintain. The data pipeline templates have definitely been helpful when looking at productivity and costs."

"It is easy to use, install, and start working with."

"The abstraction is quite good."

"The way it has improved our product is by giving our users the ability to do ad hoc reports, which is very important to our users. We can do predictive analysis on trends coming in for contracts, which is what our product does. The product helps users decide which way to go based on the predictive analysis done by Pentaho. Pentaho is not doing predictions, but reporting on the predictions that our product is doing. This is a big part of our product."

"I absolutely love Hitachi. I'm one of the forefront supporters of Hitachi for my firm. It's so easy to integrate within our environments. In terms of being able to quickly build ETL jobs, transform, and then automate them, it's really easy to integrate throughout for data analytics."

"It's my understanding that the product can scale."

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Cons

"Difficult to receive data from external sources."

"The solution’s data security could be improved."

"The workflow could be improved."

"The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages. Informatica EDC can easily capture and report it because it talks to the metadata. This is generated across those various staging points."

"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."

"The solution's visualization and analysis could be improved."

"Some error messages can be very cryptic."

"Compared to other hyperscalers, Palantir Foundry is complex and not so user-intuitive."

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"Since Hitachi took over, I don't feel that the documentation is as good within the solution. It used to have very good help built right in."

"Should provide additional control for the data warehouse"

"Its basic functionality doesn't need a whole lot of change. There could be some improvement in the consistency of the behavior of different transformation steps. The software did start as open-source and a lot of the fundamental, everyday transformation steps that you use when building ETL jobs were developed by different people. It is not a seamless paradigm. A table input step has a different way of thinking than a data merge step."

"One thing that I don't like, just a little, is the backward compatibility."

"Lumada could have more native connectors with other vendors, such as Google BigQuery, Microsoft OneDrive, Jira systems, and Facebook or Instagram. We would like to gather data from modern platforms using Lumada, which is a better approach. As a comparison, if you open Power BI to retrieve data, then you can get data from many vendors with cloud-native connectors, such as Azure, AWS, Google BigQuery, and Athena Redshift. Lumada should have more native connectors to help us and facilitate our job in gathering information from these new modern infrastructures and tools."

"The reporting definitely needs improvement. There are a lot of general, basic features that it doesn't have. A simple feature you would expect a reporting tool to have is the ability to search the repository for a report. It doesn't even have that capability. That's been a feature that we've been asking for since the beginning and it hasn't been implemented yet."

"I have been facing some difficulties when working with large datasets. It seems that when there is a large amount of data, I experience memory errors."

"I would like to see support for some additional cloud sources. It doesn't support Azure, for example. I was trying to do a PoC with Azure the other day but it seems they don't support it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."

"It's expensive."

"The solution’s pricing is high."

"Palantir Foundry has different pricing models that can be negotiated."

"If a company is looking for an ETL solution and wants to integrate it with their tech stack but doesn't want to spend a bunch of money, Pentaho is a good solution"

"The solution reduced our ETL development time by a lot because a whole project used to take about a month to get done previously. After having Lumada, it took just a week. For a big company in Brazil, it saves a team at least $10,000 a month."

"I use it because it is free. I download from their page for free. I don't have to pay for a license. With other tools, I have to pay for the licenses. That is why I use Pentaho."

"The pricing has been pretty good. I'm used to using everything open-source or freeware-based. I understand that organizations need to make sure that the solutions are secure, and that's basically where I hit a roadblock in my current organization. They needed to ensure that we had a license and we had a secure way of accessing it so that no outside parties could get access to our data, but in terms of pricing, considering how much other teams are spending on cloud solutions or even their existing solutions, its price point is pretty good. At this time, there are no additional costs. We just have the licensing fees."

"We did a two or three-year deal the last time we did it. As compared to other solutions, at least so far in our experience, it has been very affordable. The licensing is by component. So, you need to make sure you only license the components that you really intend to use. I am not sure if we have relicensed after the Hitachi acquisition, but previously, multi-year renewals resulted in a good discount. I'm not sure if this is still the case. We've had the full suite for a lot of years, and there is just the initial cost. I am not aware of any additional costs."

"You don't need the Enterprise Edition, you can go with the Community Edition. That way you can use it for free and, for free, it's a pretty good tool to use."

"There was a cost analysis done and Pentaho did favorably in terms of cost."

"You need to go through the paid version to have Hitachi Lumada specialized support. However, if you are using the free version, then you will have only the community support. You will depend on the releases from Hitachi to solve some problem or questions that you have, such as bug fixes. You will need to wait for the newest versions or releases to solve these types of problems."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

16%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Palantir Foundry?

Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration.

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What needs improvement with Palantir Foundry?

The solution’s data security could be improved. We cannot use many Python packages with the solution. We were able to use only a few compatible Python packages.

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What is your primary use case for Palantir Foundry?

Our use cases are mostly related to data analytics. We are building some dashboards and ETL pipelines on the Palantir side. Palantir Foundry is a low-code/no-code platform with a user-friendly UI. ...

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Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?

Hi Rajneesh, yes here is the feature comparison between the community and enterprise edition : https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/brochure/leverage-open-source-benefits-with-assurance-of-hita...

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What do you think can be improved with Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations?

In my opinion, the reporting side of this tool needs serious improvements. In my previous company, we worked with Hitachi Lumada Data Integration and while it does a good job for what it’s worth, ...

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What do you use Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations for most frequently?

My company has used this product to transform data from databases, CSV files, and flat files. It really does a good job. We were most satisfied with the results in terms of how many people could us...

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Overview

Palantir Foundry is an enterprise data management platform offering comprehensive tooling for working with big data. Because it is an operating system made for modern enterprises, it is highly available and a continuously updated platform.

Palantir Foundry is a fully managed SaaS platform that spans from cloud hosting and data integration to flexible analytics, visualization, model-building, operational decision-making, and decision capture. It equips technical and non-technical users to make data-driven operational decisions.

Palantir Foundry includes tools to integrate data of any scale, format, or structure, and also has granular, flexible access controls for individual datasets. In addition, it has an open, modular architecture with multiple RESTful APIs, it has native applications for developing machine learning and artificial intelligence, it provides sophisticated data science applications for users of all technical abilities, and much more.

Palantir Foundry Features

The most valuable Palantir Foundry features include:

Security, flexibility, interoperability, easy deployment, built-in role classification, purpose-based access controls, interoperable architecture, model integration, AI modeling tools, ontology, custom workflows, team-specific applications, self-serve analytics, lineage system, operational application building, 200+ data connectors, data versioning, change management framework, sand decision orchestration, and custom dashboard and report building tools.

With Palantir Foundry You Can:

Accelerate development & operations
Collaborate globally
Save time on security
Reduce costs

Palantir Foundry Benefits

Some of the many Palantir Foundry benefits include:

Modular: Because Palantir Foundry is modular, it can integrate with existing infrastructure.
Granular governance: Robust data governance controls help ensure seamless compliance, auditability, and security.
Secure data sharing: The security infrastructure allows you to share data securely, within organizations and with chosen partners.
Rapid integration: Palantir Foundry can rapidly integrate models and data from data platforms into an operational ontology, and can also fuel existing data platforms.
Stand-alone deployment: Palantir Foundry can be deployed standalone and can provide all necessary capabilities for data connection, data integration, and model building.
Prevent lock-in: The data and model integration suites are designed to prevent lock-in, and assume that tools will be interoperating with Palantir Foundry as an organization grows.
No SQL necessary: Users do not have to use SQL queries or employ engineers to write strings in order to search petabytes of data. With Palantir Foundry, natural language is used to query data and results are returned in real-time.
Excellent data integration: Palantir Foundry provides secure, scalable, and resilient integration of all data sources.
Availability: The Palantir platform uses DNS routing, gateways and elastic load balancing to ensure availability. Dedicated accounts and virtual resources are used on a per customer basis.
Multiple metrics types: The Palantir platform provides hundreds of metrics. Some include average session length, drop-off rate, number of logins per user, number of accounts, and search speed.

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot users like Palantir Foundry because it has many advantages:

“It is user-friendly, good automation, and allows you to do a better job of data governance.” - Associate, Inhouse Consulting at a pharma/biotech company

“Works seamlessly with good end-to-end capabilities and the capability to scale.” - Wallace H., Sr. Director at a tech services company

Palantir

Pentaho Data Integration stands as a versatile platform designed to cater to the data integration and analytics needs of organizations, regardless of their size. This powerful solution is the go-to choice for businesses seeking to seamlessly integrate data from diverse sources, including databases, files, and applications. Pentaho Data Integration facilitates the essential tasks of cleaning and transforming data, ensuring it's primed for meaningful analysis. With a wide array of tools for data mining, machine learning, and statistical analysis, Pentaho Data Integration empowers organizations to glean valuable insights from their data. What sets Pentaho Data Integration apart is its maturity and a vibrant community of users and developers, making it a reliable and cost-effective option. Pentaho Data Integration offers a range of features, including a comprehensive ETL toolkit, data cleaning and transformation capabilities, robust data analysis tools, and seamless deployment options for data integration and analytics solutions, making it a go-to solution for organizations seeking to harness the power of their data.

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Sample Customers

Merck KGaA, Airbus, Ferrari,United States Intelligence Community, United States Department of Defense

66Controls, Providential Revenue Agency of Ro Negro, NOAA Information Systems, Swiss Real Estate Institute

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