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 8.5, while Talend is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.8. IBM holds a 1.9% mindshare in DI, compared to Talend’s 1.5% 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

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of StreamSets is 1.9%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Talend Data Management Platform is 1.5%, 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

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

Pros

"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 ability to have a good bifurcation rate and fewer mistakes is valuable."

"The best feature that I really like is the integration."

"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"

"StreamSets data drift feature gives us an alert upfront so we know that the data can be ingested. Whatever the schema or data type changes, it lands automatically into the data lake without any intervention from us, but then that information is crucial to fix for downstream pipelines, which process the data into models, like Tableau and Power BI models. This is actually very useful for us. We are already seeing benefits. Our pipelines used to break when there were data drift changes, then we needed to spend about a week fixing it. Right now, we are saving one to two weeks. Though, it depends on the complexity of the pipeline, we are definitely seeing a lot of time being saved."

"It is really easy to set up and the interface is easy to use."

"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."

"The most valuable features are the option of integration with a variety of protocols, languages, and origins."

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"The solution can run on any machine and that is a big advantage."

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

"I like everything about this product, but the biggest thing is the ease of use."

"The most valuable feature is the data loading and scripting language"

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

"The most valuable features of the Talend Data Management Platform are the components."

"They're very competitive in terms of performance, which is a good selling point. It has very rich features. It provides a very rich feature set in the application."

"I like the way that you can use the context variables, and how you can work those context variables to give you values and settings for every development environment, such as PROD, TEST, and DEV."

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Cons

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

"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."

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

"StreamSets should provide a mechanism to be able to perform data quality assessment when the data is being moved from one source to the target."

"They need to improve their customer care services. Sometimes it has taken more than 48 hours to resolve an issue. That should be reduced. They are aware of small or generic issues, but not the more technical or deep issues. For those, they require some time, generally 48 to 72 hours to respond. That should be improved."

"The documentation is inadequate and has room for improvement because the technical support does not regularly update their documentation or the knowledge base."

"One area for improvement could be the cloud storage server speed, as we have faced some latency issues here and there."

"If you use JDBC Lookup, for example, it generally takes a long time to process data."

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"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."

"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."

"Data management could also encompass APIs and real-time streaming data integration."

"The product must enhance the data quality."

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

"The documentation from version to version could be more accurate."

"They lack in memory capacity."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"I believe the pricing is not equitable."

"StreamSets is expensive, especially for small businesses."

"The pricing is affordable for any business."

"StreamSets is an expensive solution."

"Its pricing is pretty much up to the mark. For smaller enterprises, it could be a big price to pay at the initial stage of operations, but the moment you have the Seed B or Seed C funding and you want to scale up your operations and aren't much worried about the funds, at that point in time, you would need a solution that could be scaled."

"It's not so favorable for small companies."

"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."

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

"License renewal is on a yearly basis."

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

"The tool is cheap."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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

Accent Group, Acticall, Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, Car & Boat Media, Cdiscount.com

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