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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Alooma

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAlooma is a data integration product providing ETL capabilities with a focus on output to data warehouse. It also offers pipeline monitoring and error handling protocols.N/A

    Fivetran

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AFivetran replicates applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance data warehouse, after a five minute setup. The vendor says their standardized cloud pipelines are fully managed and zero-maintenance. The vendor says Fivetran began with a realization: For modern companies using cloud-based software and storage, traditional ETL tools badly underperformed, and the complicated configurations they required often led to project failures. To streamline and accelerate…

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    AloomaFivetran
    Editions & Modules
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    Starter
    $0.01
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    Standard
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    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AloomaFivetran
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    AloomaFivetran
    Considered Both Products
    Alooma
    Chose Alooma
    Haven't used the alternatives, since Alooma was one of the earlier ones to the market. From a cursory viewing, however, the features seem to match relatively similarly.
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    Fivetran
    Chose Fivetran
    Honestly, we haven't done much investigation in a while, it just works 360 days of the year. The other five days there may be a hiccup that will throw us a day off of data, but it gets caught up in the end.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    AloomaFivetran
    Cloud Data Integration
    Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Alooma and Fivetran
    Feature
    Alooma
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Fivetran
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built connectors8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connector modification7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for real-time and batch integration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality services8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data security features7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring console8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Alooma and Fivetran
    Feature
    Alooma
    -
    Ratings
    Fivetran
    10.0
    8 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Alooma and Fivetran
    Feature
    Alooma
    -
    Ratings
    Fivetran
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings7.67 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Alooma and Fivetran
    Feature
    Alooma
    -
    Ratings
    Fivetran
    6.2
    8 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings2.06 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings4.04 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Alooma and Fivetran
    Feature
    Alooma
    -
    Ratings
    Fivetran
    8.3
    7 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AloomaFivetran
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    AloomaFivetran
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Alooma
    Very appropriate for managing an ELT stack -- Alooma handles the 'E' and 'L' pieces very well. Due to the way transformation is setup, it is more on the lightweight side of things and thus works for this kind of stack. For more traditional ETL stacks, Alooma would probably not be the right fit.
    Incentivized
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    Fivetran
    Fivetran's business model justifies the use-case where we require data from a single source basically a lot of data but if the requirement is not on the heavier side, Fivetran comes to costly operation when compared to its peers. Otherwise, I'll recommend Fivetran for stability and update and seamless service provider.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Alooma
    • Transformation of data before entering the data warehouse -- allows for a consistent/understandable schema for analytics teams.
    • Adding of additional data sources: Alooma has a large library of pre-built, common 3rd party vendors for which data is often needed to be ETL-ed.
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    Fivetran
    • Easily connects to source data using delivered connectors
    • Transforms data into standard models and schemas
    • Has very good documentation to help quickly setup connectors
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Alooma
    • More tools on managing the data warehouse itself. Although great on the ingest and transformation of data, more help provided by the tool on managing the outputs would be welcome.
    • Increase possibilities in the transformation step, rather than single event transformations.
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    Fivetran
    • Very difficult to get connectors enhanced if a specific needed object is not supported by them
    • Depending on the edition needed and the data volumes, can get quite expensive
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Alooma
    No answers on this topic
    Fivetran
    Very easy and intuitive to setup and maintain as there usually are not that many options. Very well documented (e.g. how to setup each connector, how the schema looks like, any specific features of this connector etc.). Also the operation is intuitive, e.g. you have status pages, log pages, configuration pages etc. for each connector.
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    Performance
    Alooma
    No answers on this topic
    Fivetran
    It runs pretty well and gets our data from point A to point cluster quickly enough. Honestly, it's not something I think about unless it breaks and that's pretty rare.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Alooma
    Haven't used the alternatives, since Alooma was one of the earlier ones to the market. From a cursory viewing, however, the features seem to match relatively similarly.
    Incentivized
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    Fivetran
    We never seriously considered using anything else. Our data engineers had used Fivetran extensively in previous roles so when it came time to make a decision, there wasn't much of a process. They gladly signed the contract with Fivetran pretty quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Alooma
    • Allowing for additional data sources to more automation capability around monitoring the business is a huge ROI
    Incentivized
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    Fivetran
    • It has been very positive in serving BI team with new source requests
    • It has been OK at scaling to match as data volumes as source data size grows
    Incentivized
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