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Denodo pros and cons

Vendor: Denodo
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Pros & Cons summary

Denodo excels in data virtualization, enabling seamless integration and data access from diverse sources. The platform is praised for data catalog and lineage capabilities, enhancing traceability. Performance features like ClearOptimizer and Virtual Cache optimize processing. Denodo supports API integration, connecting to various technologies. However, its data catalog needs development, AWS/GCP integration requires improvement, and training documentation is limited. User-specific security and performance management with high volume use also need enhancements.

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PROS

Denodo excels at data virtualization, allowing seamless connectivity to diverse data sources and integration across platforms.
Denodo enhances performance with features like query optimization and virtual cache, ensuring efficient data processing and retrieval.
Denodo offers robust data abstraction tools, enabling easy data transformation and logical data warehouse functionalities.
Denodo provides reliable data synchronization and transfer capabilities, benefiting business operations and analytics teams.
Denodo facilitates flexible, tool-agnostic data management, allowing companies to maintain independence from specific BI solutions.

CONS

Data catalog needs improvement and development, with room for better functionality.
Performance is slow when dealing with a large number of views and high volume.
Integration requires enhancements for better speed and process management.
Stability and performance management need advancements, particularly in the data management functionality.
Bulk data handling is difficult in Denodo, often leading to performance issues with large datasets.
 

Denodo Pros review quotes

Dash Bibhuprasad - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 7, 2022
While we may not be using all the features of Denodo at this time, we have found the data virtualization features to be very useful in helping us connect our data sources together, bringing all our data into one platform.
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Naresh Maddineni - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 20, 2022
The best thing about Denodo is that creating and deploying a web service can be done in about 10 minutes, compared to a whole day when it comes to other solutions (such as when deploying with Java and AWS).
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KB
Sep 23, 2022
One thing that we have noticed is that when you have a BI tool, you end up building a lot of the logic in the BI tool, but as a company, every company wants to be tool agnostic because today, you could be in the Qlik Sense, and tomorrow, you may decide to go with Tableau or something else that is there. If you have put a lot of logic within the tool, transitioning or moving away from one BI tool to another tool becomes a very intensive process. By keeping the logic in Denodo, you can move to any tool.
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Alisson Machado De Menezes - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 16, 2022
In general, it's good for us to make tests so we can scout the data.
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MohamedSaied - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 7, 2024
Denodo provides several server connectivity options with other tools such as ODPC and UDPC. It supports API integrations, allowing integration with a wide range of databases using different technologies, including NoSQL and relational databases.
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MV
Aug 25, 2019
It is a go-to tool for data virtualization. The virtualization and data catalog are the features of why we chose Denodo.
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LeandroSodré - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 16, 2022
The most valuable aspects of this solution are the short time frame in which you can deliver and connect.
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AS
Sep 20, 2022
In PL/SQL, first you need to gather all the data and then start writing the file, but in Denodo you fetch the data and write the data simultaneously. So, for example, if you have 1 million or 2 million records, you don't have to wait to fetch all of the 2 million; you can keep on fetching and writing in the file simultaneously.
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reviewer1179582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 11, 2022
Denodo is lightweight in terms of how it leads you to combine your discrete data systems at one spot.
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AbhijeetKarki - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 20, 2022
The ability to connect to a lot of different sources.
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Denodo Cons review quotes

Dash Bibhuprasad - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 7, 2022
It would be beneficial to make sure that the team that will be using Denodo has some kind of training on how to use the product at least a month beforehand, and there could even be some kind of feedback or Q&A sessions to go along with the training. If Denodo were able to provide this kind of training, it would be very helpful to users in insurance and banking companies because the staff are typically older and not always technically-minded.
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Naresh Maddineni - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 20, 2022
There are a couple of areas that can be improved in Denodo. From a stability point of view, sometimes we see issues in the data management functionality. This only happens now and then, however, and usually takes place when we add in our own customization.
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KB
Sep 23, 2022
I would like it if we could pull the data model or export the data model because Denodo has, based on how you build, something called associations. The data model gets very confusing when you go look at it. It depends on how you define it, but it's really huge. I wish there was a way to export it into Visio. It could be that they already have a way to do it, and I don't know, but it would be much easier for the architects and even for the developers to look at it than scrunching it into the screen and expanding every small portion of it. If there was an easy way to export the Denodo model into another modeling tool and view it, it would be great.
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Alisson Machado De Menezes - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 16, 2022
The git configuration really should be improved.
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MohamedSaied - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 7, 2024
They need to invest more in the optimization engine. It will be a fantastic tool for them to enhance automation and improve the GUI interface, especially for Integration, as some tools are still not fully integrated, such as Iceberg.
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MV
Aug 25, 2019
The data catalog certainly has room for improvement. It is functional but we look forward to development. We are in constant contact with Denodo and they are fully aware of our needs.
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LeandroSodré - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 16, 2022
The feature that you have to connect on LDAP needs improvement.
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AS
Sep 20, 2022
Tasks such as conversion of a date format or conversion of a number format that can be done in a very easy way in different languages, like SQL or Oracle, are not so easy to do in Denodo. For example, if you want to convert a date from one format to another, in Oracle it's pretty easy; in Denodo, however, it requires so many lines of code. Simple things that can be done very quickly in other database languages require more lines of code in Denodo.
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reviewer1179582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 11, 2022
It would be good if the solution provided a much-needed cellular platform.
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AbhijeetKarki - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 20, 2022
Performance management could be improved.
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