Astro by Astronomer vs. Salesforce Data Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Astro by Astronomer
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, a data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code. Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow™, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded more than 8 million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world.N/A
Salesforce Data Cloud
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Data Cloud (formerly Salesforce Genie) is a solution to put data to work for customers. It is deeply embedded in the Einstein 1 Platform, which means any external data lake or warehouse can now drive actions and workflows inside of the Salesforce CRM.
$108,000
per year per org
Pricing
Astro by AstronomerSalesforce Data Cloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Data Cloud for Marketing
$108000
per year per org
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Astro by AstronomerSalesforce Data Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
Astro by AstronomerSalesforce Data Cloud
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Astro by Astronomer
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data Cloud
5.5
2 Ratings
39% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Astro by Astronomer
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data Cloud
6.0
2 Ratings
29% below category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Astro by Astronomer
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data Cloud
7.2
2 Ratings
8% below category average
Data model creation00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Astro by Astronomer
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data Cloud
6.5
2 Ratings
20% below category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Astro by AstronomerSalesforce Data Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Astro by AstronomerSalesforce Data Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Astronomer, Inc.
Astronomer is well suited for workflow and dependency management for enterprise-level data lakes. It is not a product for data processing though. Different source systems can be integrated, it also provides powerful interfaces for alerting and monitoring. Easy to build DAGs, graphical UI, API support makes the product more user-friendly as well. Astronomer also does a great job on user training.
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Salesforce
I would recommend Salesforce Data Cloud as an 8 because it is great for keeping track of customer and sale information, it is easy to use, it is easy to generate reports and it is user friendly. However, it is very expensive and does not integrate with other CRMs well
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Pros
Astronomer, Inc.
  • Workflow management
  • Wide availability of plugins
  • Dependency management on upstream
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Salesforce
  • Integration with other systems is really working for us. Also having models developed in Data Cloud and then use for servers, Salesforce sales and for Marketing Cloud.
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Cons
Astronomer, Inc.
  • More language agnostic
  • Flexible fork and join capabilities
  • Near real time UI updates in case of deployment of enhanced DAGs
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Salesforce
  • Sometimes it can be very fidgety and you need a team of salesforce developers in order to implement the solution
  • Can be expensive, but so are other providers
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Usability
Astronomer, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Because it is worth this, the analytics, reporting, CRM, security parameters, mobile support all make it this worth. Also, I personally believe it has high potential to grab customers attention and increase sales.
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Alternatives Considered
Astronomer, Inc.
Astronomer is a fast, secure, scalable workload management solution. It provides world-class user training along with easy to interact support.
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Salesforce
I like Salesforce Data Cloud because like mentioned before, it is easy to use, easy to generate reports, create workflows, keep track of customer data, sales data, house data, etc. You can also import excel sheets with customer data as well and it will create the fields for you which is nice
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Return on Investment
Astronomer, Inc.
  • It helps to build scalable, available and low maintenance workloads
  • Integrated Alerts and notifications helps to detect load issues in the early stages
  • Ensures meeting data SLAs
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Salesforce
  • It's been really good because for example, now we can use some of the segmentation of our clients. We have all the models running in that cloud, so it's been easier for us having this information built and having the calculation of the segments that we want to use with clients.
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