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
Tableau Prep
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Prep enables users to get to the analysis phase faster by helping them quickly combine, shape, and clean their data. According to the vendor, a direct and visual experience helps provide users with a deeper understanding of their data, smart features make data preparation simple, and integration with the Tableau analytical workflow allows for faster speed to insight. Tableau Prep allows users to connect to data on-premises or in the cloud, whether it’s a database or a…
$15
per month billed annually per user
Toad Data Point
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Toad Data Point is a cross-platform, self-service, data-integration tool that simplifies data access, preparation and provisioning. It provides data connectivity and desktop data integration, and with the Workbook interface for business users, it provides simple-to-use visual query building and workflow automation.
$365
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Viewer
$15
per month billed annually per user
Explorer
$42
per month billed annually per user
Creator
$70
per month billed annually per user
Base Edition
$365
Pro Edition
$528
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Astro by AstronomerTableau PrepToad Data Point
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
7.0
(10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
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(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
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(0 ratings)
5.3
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Astro by AstronomerTableau PrepToad Data Point
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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Tableau
If your data sets are coming in without much stewardship then Tableau Prep can help to clean the data before you start trying to create visualizations for your end users. You will save a lot of time this way - rather than seeing problems once you are creating dashboards. If you don't have large data sets or your data is relatively simple, then Tableau Prep may not be needed.
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Quest Software
Appropriate for general querying and some DBA work. It's the universal least-offensive solution for most environments - not best of breed, but not subject to unusual/extensive requirements. It just works. On the other hand, some functionality (e.g. data import/export, snippets) are perfunctory and minimal and seem to be either difficult or impossible to automate. If you need to streamline those operations, you'll be forced to rely on third-party solutions that mostly work on top of (instead of with) TOAD.
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Pros
Astronomer, Inc.
  • Workflow management
  • Wide availability of plugins
  • Dependency management on upstream
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Tableau
  • Display the raw data coming in from the data warehouse
  • Point out situations that might be erroneous
  • Show the distribution of raw data figures
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Quest Software
  • Export data into excel.
  • Export data into excel using a pivot table functionality.
  • Navigation between windows is intuitive and easy to understand.
  • Good for SQL novices and experts alike.
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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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Tableau
  • Use of Macros within Workflow (and more types of automation)
  • Join Editor also giving a SQL Update Query
  • More types of visuals
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Quest Software
  • The workflow is a relatively new feature. Quest is adding additional functionality and the workflows are useful now.
  • Would be nice if the 'Automate' feature was a bit easier to use.
  • Would be nice if some of the SQL Editor features in the traditional interface worked better in the new workflow interface (although, these are being fixed with each release).
  • Would be nice if there were fewer releases.
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Likelihood to Renew
Astronomer, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Tableau
It is a valuable tool for generating and cleaning files for multiple purposes.
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Quest Software
No answers on this topic
Usability
Astronomer, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Tableau
It works well and is user friendly for the basics but needs more options for bring in data (using SQL queries for example) and export format options.
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Quest Software
I find Toad Data Point easy to use for both the novice and the experienced business analyst. If all you desire is to access data and create spreadsheets...this is a snap. Toad Data Point actually has cool data analysis features built into it. The newer workflow interface makes automating steps a snap
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Support Rating
Astronomer, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Tableau
I have not really had to reach out for any kind of customer support for Tableau Prep, so I can't really say. However, the support that Tableau has given for their other products has been great, so I would assume it would be the same here. They are also constantly adding new features and providing software updates, and that is always a plus.
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Quest Software
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Astronomer, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Tableau
Live connections to cloud services (Google Sheets for example) and cloud hosted databases (cloud hosted SIS for example) for scheduled flows are not supported
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Quest Software
No answers on this topic
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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Tableau
Before Prep, we had to do all the data joining and connecting in a Tableau Workbook. Not only did this cause workbooks connected with live data to run frustratingly slowly, a new connection and set-up had to be established every time a new workbook as created, even if you were working with the same data. The extracts produced by Prep allow several workbooks to be working from the same data set-up without any additional work, saving time and stress.
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Quest Software
Although Toad and UltraEdit are both great products, from an SQL standpoint Toad is a much better editor and troubleshooter.
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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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Tableau
  • Quicker data sets for online reports
  • More efficient data cleaning Ad Hoc reports
  • Costly if using data management to schedule data pull and cleaning (priced per viewer accounts not creator accounts)
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Quest Software
  • It is the least common denominator - not particularly optimized for our environment or workflows.
  • Hangs or slowdowns add anywhere from 5% - 7% for projects utilizing large/complicated data setts. (This could be due to other IT-imposed constraints and not entirely due to TOAD.)
  • Trying to perform some operations requires reading documentation and experimenting in order to figure out the TOAD-specific approaches and commands.
  • It just works (when we understand it). Updates don't break things and things don't suddenly start behaving differently. Best of all, we don't mysteriously lose functionality.
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