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Talend Open Studio vs WhereScape RED comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Talend Open Studio
Ranking in Data Integration
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
WhereScape RED
Ranking in Data Integration
45th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Talend Open Studio is 4.4%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhereScape RED is 1.1%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Costin Marzea - PeerSpot reviewer
Allows you to develop your own components and can be used as an OEM
Sometimes, scalability is part of planning. It depends on what you mean by scalability. People talk a lot about it, but scalability is not always about system functionality. Sometimes, it may be planning the job you're doing. If you want to split it into several jobs or servers, you don't actually have to have it built in as a functionality. You can create a job using a loop, which runs and controls several jobs in a loop that may be controlled. Scaling should not always be part of the infrastructure based on whether the engine can scale or not. I think it's your plan or project that should scale and split, and you can define these parameters. These parameters include how many servers you want to run or how many executions you want to do on different parts of the data. It's not always an issue of the engine running. Sometimes, your database should be configured to support partitioning. The product may scale very well without partitioning, but if the basic response is very slow, you didn't solve the problem. You should solve the problems at a higher level, not just at the execution level. They should be solved at the database level and communication level, and you should have firewalls. We are trying to add to the open source the ability to generate code for containers and Kubernetes that exist in the subscription version. Once you do this, Kubernetes will take care of the scaling, so there is no problem.
reviewer1618884 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quick to set up, flexible, and stable
The scheduling part I don't like due to the fact that it allows you to schedule as a parent and child and other things, however, the error trackability has to be a little more user-friendly. It's also not user-friendly in the sense that it loads all the jobs and there are not enough filters so that it doesn't need to load everything. If the job fails, you don't get any type of alert or email. It would be ideal if there was some sort of automated alert message. Technical support isn't the best. It would be ideal if we understood how to do it in a card exception regarding exclusion, where the card is captured separately rather than filling the whole process on the data inbound side. Certain workloads like this are organized in such a way where you seem to be doubling the work as opposed to streamlining the process.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature for me when it comes to this solution is that it's easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Talend Open Studio are customization and integration."
"The solution's technical support is responsive and helpful."
"The drag-and-drop feature in the interface is very good."
"The initial setup of the product was very easy."
"Talend can connect to multiple data sources, including relational data sources, ERP, CRM, and others."
"We have contacted their technical support. They are great. They offer very professional help. If I need some technical answer, they are very professional. They are quick, professional, and very accurate."
"The data integration aspect of the solution is excellent."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"I like the data vault implementations."
"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."
"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."
"Support is absolutely excellent, efficient, and timely."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."
"RED generates comprehensive documentation and regenerates it as quickly as things changes, but it also provides impact documentation."
 

Cons

"Talend should improve the log and error handling to better track the errors you find during development. Sometimes it's challenging to see what's causing an issue, and tracking that on Talend is complicated."
"The solution should integrate with a version control system in the subscription versions to make it easy to work with and manage the version control."
"The profiling perspective needs improvement. Instead of using it in the studio, we are using a different tool which is also provided by Talend. It's redundant."
"The server-side should be completely revamped."
"Talent consumes a lot of resources on my PC."
"he overall marketing and documentation of this product need to improve a lot."
"It doesn't have the ability to keep the repository of the source code (visual pipeline). It can be integrated with Git."
"It is complicated to understand the configuration process for email components."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"Customization could be better."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Right now, because we're using the open-source version, there's no cost."
"Pricing and licensing are fairly straightforward. It is reasonably priced and managed."
"The cost for one year for the ETL tools, not for the big data, is 6K per year. It is a good price."
"It is an open-source tool which means it is a free solution."
"It is an open-source product."
"I am using the open-source version of the solution, so there are no extra costs for any feature."
"The paid version of this solution has a very high price, but even with the limitations, the Community version works fine."
"Price could be lower. It is getting too expensive when compared to some other solutions, which is actually a little bit concerning."
"Our company purchased a corporate unlimited license."
"ROI is at least 10 times."
"Factor in the price of specialized consulting who know this product. They're hard to find and expensive."
"Speed to market of a warehouse solution at a relatively inexpensive price point."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
Insurance Company
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Talend Open Studio compare with AWS Glue?
We reviewed AWS Glue before choosing Talend Open Studio. AWS Glue is the managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) from Amazon Web Services. AWS Glue enables AWS users to create and manage jobs in...
What do you like most about Talend Open Studio?
It is easy to use and covers most of the functions needed. We can use the code without any extra effort. The open source is very good. They have the same commercials with additional connectors. The...
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Sample Customers

Almerys, BF&M, Findus
British American Tobacco, Cornell University, Allianz Benelux, Finnair, Solarwinds and many more.
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