StreamSets vs Talend Data Management Platform comparison

IBM and Talend are both solutions in the Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.4, while Talend is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.8. IBM holds a 1.8% mindshare in DI, compared to Talend’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Talend users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Talend Data Management Platform and StreamSets are leading tools in data integration and ETL solutions. StreamSets seems to have the upper hand with its user-friendly features and cost-effective open-source option, appealing to a broader audience.

Features: Talend provides real-time data access and transformation with extensive metadata sharing, ETL capabilities, and flexibility in code integration. It offers advanced monitoring and the ability to handle large data volumes. StreamSets allows code-free pipeline design, robust data drift handling, numerous connectors, and seamless ETL operations, catering to technical and non-technical users with its integration capabilities, particularly with cloud platforms.

Room for Improvement: Talend users face challenges with technical support during installation, multitasking, and documentation clarity. Its administration and version control could also improve, alongside performance in Change Data Capture and data lineage. StreamSets requires enhancements in its GUI, security features, SAP HANA integration, and documentation. Users also express a need for improved logging, user management, and security integrations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Talend caters to On-premises and Public Cloud deployments but struggles with support responsiveness during difficult installations. Although it has a supportive community portal, its customer service needs improvement. StreamSets, focusing on Public and Hybrid Cloud environments, is praised for immediate deployment scalability and usability but requires better documentation and customer assistance, with accessibility and educational resources needing enhancement.

Pricing and ROI: Talend offers a subscription-based pricing model, cost-effective against legacy competitors yet perceived as moderately high for small setups. StreamSets, with its open-source option, faces criticism for its commercial pricing model, needing adjustments for small enterprises. Both deliver ROI through resource efficiency and scalability benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

StreamSets

Ranking in Data Integration

9th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Talend Data Management Plat...

Ranking in Data Integration

21st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of StreamSets is 1.8%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Talend Data Management Platform is 1.6%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Reyansh Kumar

Technical Specialist at Accenture

We no longer need to hire highly skilled data engineers to create and monitor data pipelines

The things I like about StreamSets are its * overall user interface * efficiency * product features, which are all good. Also, the scheduling within the data engineering pipeline is very much appreciated, and it has a wide range of connectors for connecting to any data sources like SQL Server, AWS, Azure, etc. We have used it with Kafka, Hadoop, and Azure Data Factory Datasets. Connecting to these systems with StreamSets is very easy. You just need to configure the data sources, the paths and their configurations, and you are ready to go. It is very efficient and very easy to use for ETL pipelines. It is a GUI-based interface in which you can easily create or design your own data pipelines with just a few clicks. As for moving data into modern analytics systems, we are using it with Microsoft Power BI, AWS, and some on-premises solutions, and it is very easy to get data from StreamSets into them. No hardcore coding or special technical expertise is required. It is also a no-code platform in which you can configure your data sources and data output for easy configuration of your data pipeline. This is a very important aspect because if a tool requires code development, we need to hire software developers to get the task done. By using StreamSets, it can be done with a few clicks.

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Srinivas Mamidipalli

Senior Technical Manager at YASH Technologies

Built for everything and packed with features but there are some monitoring limitations

Our company uses the solution to provide data integration services for customers. Most of our implementations are on-premises for large or enterprise-level customers. We have six users with experience in both the local studio and the enterprise versions. The solution can run on any machine and…

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The ETL capabilities are very useful for us. We extract and transform data from multiple data sources, into a single, consistent data store, and then we put it in our systems. We typically use it to connect our Apache Kafka with data lakes. That process is smooth and saves us a lot of time in our production systems."

"The Ease of configuration for pipes is amazing. It has a lot of connectors. Mainly, we can do everything with the data in the pipe. I really like the graphical interface too"

"The most valuable would be the GUI platform that I saw. I first saw it at a special session that StreamSets provided towards the end of the summer. I saw the way you set it up and how you have different processes going on with your data. The design experience seemed to be pretty straightforward to me in terms of how you drag and drop these nodes and connect them with arrows."

"I really appreciate the numerous ready connectors available on both the source and target sides, the support for various media file formats, and the ease of configuring and managing pipelines centrally."

"The best thing about StreamSets is its plugins, which are very useful and work well with almost every data source. It's also easy to use, especially if you're comfortable with SQL. You can customize it to do what you need. Many other tools have started to use features similar to those introduced by StreamSets, like automated workflows that are easy to set up."

"The UI is user-friendly, it doesn't require any technical know-how and we can navigate to social media or use it more easily."

"For me, the most valuable features in StreamSets have to be the Data Collector and Control Hub, but especially the Data Collector. That feature is very elegant and seamlessly works with numerous source systems."

"One of the things I like is the data pipelines. They have a very good design. Implementing pipelines is very straightforward. It doesn't require any technical skill."

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"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to understand."

"The basic tools are easy to pick up and understand."

"The tool was mainly used for ETL processes to apply governance rules on data."

"We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need."

"The most valuable feature is integration."

"The features that I like the most are the simplicity of the interface, and the ability to quickly develop with a predefined component."

"The availability of connectors is great."

"The solution is connected to various phones. It retrieves the configuration from the system."

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Cons

"Sometimes, it is not clear at first how to set up nodes. A site with an explanation of how each node works would be very helpful."

"One thing that I would like to add is the ability to manually enter data. The way the solution currently works is we don't have the option to manually change the data at any point in time. Being able to do that will allow us to do everything that we want to do with our data. Sometimes, we need to manually manipulate the data to make it more accurate in case our prior bifurcation filters are not good. If we have the option to manually enter the data or make the exact iterations on the data set, that would be a good thing."

"We create pipelines or jobs in StreamSets Control Hub. It is a great feature, but if there is a way to have a folder structure or organize the pipelines and jobs in Control Hub, it would be great. I submitted a ticket for this some time back."

"StreamSet works great for batch processing but we are looking for something that is more real-time. We need latency in numbers below milliseconds."

"Currently, we can only use the query to read data from SAP HANA. What we would like to see, as soon as possible, is the ability to read from multiple tables from SAP HANA. That would be a really good thing that we could use immediately. For example, if you have 100 tables in SQL Server or Oracle, then you could just point it to the schema or the 100 tables and ingestion information. However, you can't do that in SAP HANA since StreamSets currently is lacking in this. They do not have a multi-table feature for SAP HANA. Therefore, a multi-table origin for SAP HANA would be helpful."

"The data collector in StreamSets has to be designed properly. For example, a simple database configuration with MySQL DB requires the MySQL Connector to be installed."

"I would like to see it integrate with other kinds of platforms, other than Java. We're going to have a lot of applications using .NET and other languages or frameworks. StreamSets is very helpful for the old Java platform but it's hard to integrate with the other platforms and frameworks."

"Visualization and monitoring need to be improved and refined."

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"I've had some issues with bugs causing crashes, especially when making changes to the system or with the monthly upgrades to Studio they've introduced."

"I would like to sync a project and do an upload from that current version, and then from GitLab, be able to download the latest one."

"Including either XML or JSON in the next release would definitely be a good transformation. I'm not sure if Talend has that feature, but it's one of those requirements that we are working around and have to do some parsing of XML so this could make it easier."

"The solution's memory sometimes bottlenecks and that can be challenging."

"I'd be interested in seeing the running of Python programs and transformations from within the studio itself."

"The sales and market department could improve the Talend Data Management Platform."

"The stability is good, but the performance is slower when I work on a huge amount of data."

"The product must enhance the data quality."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I believe the pricing is not equitable."

"There are different versions of the product. One is the corporate license version, and the other one is the open-source or free version. I have been using the corporate license version, but they have recently launched a new open-source version so that anybody can create an account and use it. The licensing cost varies from customer to customer. I don't have a lot of input on that. It is taken care of by PMO, and they seem fine with its pricing model. It is being used enterprise-wide. They seem to have got a good deal for StreamSets."

"StreamSets Data Collector is open source. One can utilize the StreamSets Data Collector, but the Control Hub is the main repository where all the jobs are present. Everything happens in Control Hub."

"The pricing is too fixed. It should be based on how much data you need to process. Some businesses are not so big that they process a lot of data."

"We use the free version. It's great for a public, free release. Our stance is that the paid support model is too expensive to get into. They should honestly reevaluate that."

"The licensing is expensive, and there are other costs involved too. I know from using the software that you have to buy new features whenever there are new updates, which I don't really like. But initially, it was very good."

"The pricing is affordable for any business."

"StreamSets is expensive, especially for small businesses."

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"The pricing is a little higher than what I had expected, but it's comparable with I-PASS competitors."

"The price is on a per-user basis. It's a little more expensive than other tools. There aren't any additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"License renewal is on a yearly basis."

"The solution's pricing is very reasonable and half the cost of Informatica."

"The tool is cheap."

"The price of the Talend Data Management Platform is reasonable. The other competing solutions are priced high. Gartner Magic Quadrant identified other solutions, such as Informatica, that are far more expensive."

"The licensing cost is about 40,000 Euros a year."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about StreamSets?

The best thing about StreamSets is its plugins, which are very useful and work well with almost every data source. It's also easy to use, especially if you're comfortable with SQL. You can customiz...

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What needs improvement with StreamSets?

We often faced problems, especially with SAP ERP. We struggled because many columns weren't integers or primary keys, which StreamSets couldn't handle. We had to restructure our data tables, which ...

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What is your primary use case for StreamSets?

StreamSets is used for data transformation rather than ETL processes. It focuses on transforming data directly from sources without handling the extraction part of the process. The transformed data...

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What do you like most about Talend Data Management Platform?

We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need.

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

Talend was an open-source tool, so there were no fees associated with it.

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What needs improvement with Talend Data Management Platform?

The biggest challenge with Talend was its performance. Sometimes data cleaning from the data warehouse was very slow, and we had to restart the server to enhance performance.

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Overview

StreamSets is a data integration platform that enables organizations to efficiently move and process data across various systems. It offers a user-friendly interface for designing, deploying, and managing data pipelines, allowing users to easily connect to various data sources and destinations. StreamSets also provides real-time monitoring and alerting capabilities, ensuring that data is flowing smoothly and any issues are quickly addressed.

Talend offers robust data integration in an open and scalable architecture to maximize its value to your business. Simple, graphical tools and wizards get you up and running quickly with native code generation that streamlines development.

Sample Customers

Availity, BT Group, Humana, Deluxe, GSK, RingCentral, IBM, Shell, SamTrans, State of Ohio, TalentFulfilled, TechBridge

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