Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hadoop
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Hadoop is an open source software from Apache, supporting distributed processing and data storage. Hadoop is popular for its scalability, reliability, and functionality available across commoditized hardware.N/A
Matillion
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Matillion is a data pipeline platform used to build and manage pipelines. Matillion empowers data teams with no-code and AI capabilities to be more productive, integrating data wherever it lives and delivering data that’s ready for AI and analytics.
$2.50
Pay as you go per user
SSIS
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration solution.N/A
Pricing
Apache HadoopMatillionSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Editions & Modules
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Developer: For Individuals
$2.50/credit
Pay as you go per user
Basic
$1000
per month 500 prepaid credits (additional credits: $2.18/credit)
Advanced
$2000
per month 750 prepaid credits (additional credits: $2.73/credit)
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HadoopMatillionSSIS
Free Trial
NoYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBilled directly via cloud marketplace on an hourly basis, with annual subscriptions available depending on the customer's cloud data warehouse provider.
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Hadoop

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Matillion
Chose Matillion
We selected Matillion primarily because of it's ability to connect to numerous data sources and easily create transformation jobs. While Fivetran does a better job managing and examining deltas, it is not easy to use and is very non user friendly. SSIS was not a good fit for …
Chose Matillion
The only other ETL tool I've used was SSIS. At first I thought Matillion seemed "kiddish" after using the polished Microsoft tool but now I think Matillion is easier and can do much more as it has so many built-in connectors etc. We selected Matillion at our job because of …
Chose Matillion
Matillion has more security and better version control features. The support of amazing with new connectors introduced every day.
Chose Matillion
The Matillion selection was not my decision. But I think it's a good enough choice. It is especially valuable that the team can learn Matillion easily and that the project can be understood by the entire team with the visual environment instead of complex ETLs.
Chose Matillion
Matillion was chosen by Schibsted due to the seamless integration with Snowflake. The ease of use and fast workflow have made it an essential tool in our setup, and with the option to integrate nearly every data source there is, plus the ease of use, it really gives a lot of …
Chose Matillion
Matillion is much easier to set up and easier to work for the team. Offers a lot more connections which are easier to set up. Environment variables make it easy to set up once and job creation is easy. We use Metadata tables to just loop through the list of tables that need to …
Chose Matillion
Matillion is cloud-native, therefore it doesn't need virtual machines to set up. It is easier to use compared with some of them. It always does query pushdown, while other ones don't'. It is integrated with Snowflake, while other ETLs need to use workarounds in order to perform …
Chose Matillion
It's browser-based and well suited for snowflake and redshift DWH. Matillion is Python-scripting friendly.
Chose Matillion
Similar simple GUI but Matillion's is much cleaner, easier to manage and debug, and easier to connect to cloud databases. Matillion is also much faster.
Chose Matillion
Overall from an ease of use and set up standpoint, it stacks up better than most of the other tools I've used. However, Matillion doesn't quite expand and scale up as well as the other solutions.
Chose Matillion
1. Cloud Solution
2. Easy to create and manage ELT pipelines.
3. Works great with redshift databases.
Chose Matillion
Matillion ease of use and feature set along with integration capabilities and built in integrations are definitely a step ahead than the other tools and it provides the ability for us ti integrate with refshift, Snowflake and on premise data sources and hence becomes a …
Chose Matillion
Matillion is much easier to use than the other tools that I've worked with in the past and has a more complete forward-thinking cloud strategy. Legacy ETL tools struggle to make use of modern cloud data warehouse patterns.
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Matillion works better in the AWS context
Chose Matillion
Being a fairly new player in the market, Matillion is coming up against some well-established names such as Pentaho and Talend. The primary benefit for our use case was the fact that Matillion is built specifically for Amazon Redshift. While Pentaho and Talend are more mature …
SSIS
Chose SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
When looking to evaluate different options, we looked first to the experience and software we had in-house that would accomplish the job. When assessing alternatives outside we were looking for the tool that would offer the most flexibility.

SSIS provided the most robust set of …
Features
Apache HadoopMatillionSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hadoop
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Ratings
Matillion
8.6
143 Ratings
4% above category average
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
7.0
56 Ratings
16% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings9.0142 Ratings9.056 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings8.2100 Ratings5.043 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hadoop
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Ratings
Matillion
8.7
143 Ratings
8% above category average
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
6.8
56 Ratings
17% below category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings9.3143 Ratings9.056 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings8.1142 Ratings4.755 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hadoop
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Ratings
Matillion
8.3
135 Ratings
6% above category average
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
7.5
54 Ratings
4% below category average
Data model creation00 Ratings9.133 Ratings9.028 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings9.140 Ratings6.035 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.4126 Ratings7.045 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings7.6127 Ratings9.040 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.7128 Ratings6.351 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Apache Hadoop
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Ratings
Matillion
8.2
23 Ratings
3% above category average
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
5.3
43 Ratings
40% below category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings8.222 Ratings6.038 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.220 Ratings4.538 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(37 ratings)
8.6
(145 ratings)
8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.6
(8 ratings)
8.6
(6 ratings)
9.0
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Usability
8.0
(6 ratings)
8.4
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8.0
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Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
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8.8
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Support Rating
7.5
(3 ratings)
7.4
(7 ratings)
8.0
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Online Training
6.1
(2 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
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8.2
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
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8.1
(131 ratings)
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9.1
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User Testimonials
Apache HadoopMatillionSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Likelihood to Recommend
Apache
Altogether, I want to say that Apache Hadoop is well-suited to a larger and unstructured data flow like an aggregation of web traffic or even advertising. I think Apache Hadoop is great when you literally have petabytes of data that need to be stored and processed on an ongoing basis. Also, I would recommend that the software should be supplemented with a faster and interactive database for a better querying service. Lastly, it's very cost-effective so it is good to give it a shot before coming to any conclusion.
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Matillion
Great: Need to query simpler APIs, or utilize well known services such as GSheets etc.? Matillion has got some of the best and easiest to use connectors out there. Not so great: Do you need have a competent CI/CD flow that you will be able to update / compare from Matillion as well as other sources at the same time? Good luck, you will need to be extra careful, as you might have to have a deeper dive into your servers Terminal each time you have a git conflict.
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Microsoft
As I mentioned earlier SQL Server Integration Services is suitable if you want to manage data from different applications. It really helps in fetching the data and generating reports. Its automation make it very easy and time efficient. It works well with large database as well. But it doesn't work well with real time data, it will take some time to gather the real time data. I would not recommend using it in a real time/fast-paced environment.
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Pros
Apache
  • Handles large amounts of unstructured data well, for business level purposes
  • Is a good catchall because of this design, i.e. what does not fit into our vertical tables fits here.
  • Decent for large ETL pipelines and logging free-for-alls because of this, also.
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Matillion
  • The user interface of your data pipelines makes it easier for people who aren’t as techy as data engineers to observe what's going on.
  • Customer support is quick, not always as efficient as you would want it to be, but still.
  • Nice documentation available.
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Microsoft
  • Standard ETL use cases for daily loads
  • Loading incoming data from Vendors which is placed on FTP and adding them to the SQL Warehouse
  • Creating outgoing data files and writing them to Vendor FTPs
  • Easy Active Directory integration for seamless connections to SQL Server
  • CI/CD by hosting the code on visualstudio.com
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Cons
Apache
  • Less organizational support system. Bugs need to be fixed and outside help take a long time to push updates
  • Not for small data sets
  • Data security needs to be ramped up
  • Failure in NameNode has no replication which takes a lot of time to recover
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Matillion
  • Matillion is brilliant at importing data -- it would be amazing to have more ways to export data, from emailed exports to API pushes.
  • Any Python that takes more than a few lines of code requires an external server to run it. It would be great to have more integration (perhaps in a connected virtual environment) to easily integrate customized code.
  • Troubleshooting server logs requires quite a bit of technical expertise. More human readable detailed error handling would be greatly appreciated.
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Microsoft
  • Connection managers for online data sources can be tricky to configure.
  • Performance tuning is an art form and trialing different data flow task options can be cumbersome. SSIS can do a better job of providing performance data including historical for monitoring.
  • Mapping destination using OLE DB command is difficult as destination columns are unnamed.
  • Excel or flat file connections are limited by version and type.
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Likelihood to Renew
Apache
Hadoop is organization-independent and can be used for various purposes ranging from archiving to reporting and can make use of economic, commodity hardware. There is also a lot of saving in terms of licensing costs - since most of the Hadoop ecosystem is available as open-source and is free
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Matillion
With the current experience of Matillion, we are likely to renew with the current feature option but will also look for improvement in various areas including scalability and dependability. 1. Connectors: It offers various connectors option but isn't full proof which we will be looking forward as we grow. 2. Scalability: As usage increase, we want Matillion system to be more stable.
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Microsoft
Some features should be revised or improved, some tools (using it with Visual Studio) of the toolbox should be less schematic and somewhat more flexible. Using for example, the CSV data import is still very old-fashioned and if the data format changes it requires a bit of manual labor to accept the new data structure
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Usability
Apache
As Hadoop enterprise licensed version is quite fine tuned and easy to use makes it good choice for Hadoop administrators. It’s scalability and integration with Kerberos is good option for authentication and authorisation. installation can be improved. logging can be improved so that it become easier for debugging purposes. parallel processing of data is achieved easily.
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Matillion
We are able to bring on new resources and teach them how to use Matillion without having to invest a significant amount of time. We prefer looking for resources with any type of ETL skill-set and feel that they can learn Matillion without problem. In addition, the prebuilt objects cover more than 95% of our use cases and we do not have to build much from scratch.
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Microsoft
SSIS is a great tool for most ETL needs. It has the 90% (or more) use cases covered and even in many of the use cases where it is not ideal SSIS can be extended via a .NET language to do the job well in a supportable way for almost any performance workload.
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Performance
Apache
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Matillion
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Microsoft
SQL Server Integration Services performance is dependent directly upon the resources provided to the system. In our environment, we allocated 6 nodes of 4 CPUs, 64GB each, running in parallel. Unfortunately, we had to ramp-up to such a robust environment to get the performance to where we needed it. Most of the reports are completed in a reasonable timeframe. However, in the case of slow running reports, it is often difficult if not impossible to cancel the report without killing the report instance or stopping the service.
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Support Rating
Apache
It's a great value for what you pay, and most Data Base Administrators (DBAs) can walk in and use it without substantial training. I tend to dabble on the analyst side, so querying the data I need feels like it can take forever, especially on higher traffic days like Monday.
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Matillion
Overall, I've found Matillion to be responsive and considerate. I feel like they value us as a customer even when I know they have customers who spend more on the product than we do. That speaks to a motive higher than money. They want to make a good product and a good experience for their customers. If I have any complaint, it's that support sometimes feels community-oriented. It isn't always immediately clear to me that my support requests are going to a support engineer and not to the community at large. Usually, though, after a bit of conversation, it's clear that Matillion is watching and responding. And responses are generally quick in coming.
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Microsoft
The support, when necessary, is excellent. But beyond that, it is very rarely necessary because the user community is so large, vibrant and knowledgable, a simple Google query or forum question can answer almost everything you want to know. You can also get prewritten script tasks with a variety of functionality that saves a lot of time.
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Online Training
Apache
Hadoop is a complex topic and best suited for classrom training. Online training are a waste of time and money.
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Matillion
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Microsoft
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Implementation Rating
Apache
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Matillion
We were able to control on access and built various enviroment for implementation
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Microsoft
The implementation may be different in each case, it is important to properly analyze all the existing infrastructure to understand the kind of work needed, the type of software used and the compatibility between these, the features that you want to exploit, to understand what is possible and which ones require integration with third-party tools
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Alternatives Considered
Apache
Not used any other product than Hadoop and I don't think our company will switch to any other product, as Hadoop is providing excellent results. Our company is growing rapidly, Hadoop helps to keep up our performance and meet customer expectations. We also use HDFS which provides very high bandwidth to support MapReduce workloads.
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Matillion
Fivetran offers a managed service and pre-configured schemas/models for data loading, which means much less administrative work for initial setup and ongoing maintenance. But it comes at a much higher price tag. So, knowing where your sweet spot is in the build vs. buy spectrum is essential to deciding which tool fits better. For the transformation part, dbt is purely (SQL-) code-based. So, it is mainly whether your developers prefer a GUI or code-based approach.
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Microsoft
I think SQL Server Integration Services is better suited for on-premises data movement and ADF is more suited for the cloud. Though ADF has more connectors, SQL Server Integration Services is more robust and has better functionality just because it has been around much longer
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Scalability
Apache
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Matillion
We're using Matillion on EC2 instances, and we have about 20 projects for our clients in the same instance. Sometimes, we're struggling to manage schedules for all projects because thread management is not visible, and we can't see the process at the instance level.
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Microsoft
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Return on Investment
Apache
  • There are many advantages of Hadoop as first it has made the management and processing of extremely colossal data very easy and has simplified the lives of so many people including me.
  • Hadoop is quite interesting due to its new and improved features plus innovative functions.
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Matillion
  • Matillion has been the backbone of my company's analytical functionalities for 10+ years, so it has a good ROI.
  • The price is ok for what our company built with it, but it starts to be less competitive if the tool is not used at its fullest.
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Microsoft
  • Without this, we would have to manually update a spreadsheet of our SQL Server inventory
  • We would also have poor alerting; if an instance was down we wouldn't know until it was reported by a user
  • We only have one other person who uses SQL Server Integration Services , he's the expert. It would fall to me without him and I would not enjoy being responsible for it.
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ScreenShots

Matillion Screenshots

Screenshot of Matillion's GUI, used to orchestrate jobs with control data flow functionality, automating the ETL process.Screenshot of where structured and semi-structured data can be prepared to create clean data sets that can be used with any BI/reporting/visualization tool of choice. Matillion reads and combines data across a target warehouse external storage, such as S3 or Blob.Screenshot of Matillion's self-validating components, sample and row counts. If a job does fail, the warehouse queue services available with Matillion can be used get an alert to a connected email or Slack account.Screenshot of the SQL component used to run custom scripts from within Matillion. With hundreds of pre-built connectors out of the box, Matillion can handle complex transformation needs.