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    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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    Google Cloud Dataflow

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGoogle offers Cloud Dataflow, a managed streaming analytics platform for real-time data insights, fraud detection, and other purposes.N/A
    Pricing
    FivetranGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $0.01
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    Standard
    $0.01
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    Enterprise
    $0.01
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FivetranGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    FivetranGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Considered Both Products
    Fivetran
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    FivetranGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Fivetran and Google Cloud Dataflow
    Feature
    Fivetran
    10.0
    8 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Google Cloud Dataflow
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    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Fivetran and Google Cloud Dataflow
    Feature
    Fivetran
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Google Cloud Dataflow
    -
    Ratings
    Simple transformations7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Fivetran and Google Cloud Dataflow
    Feature
    Fivetran
    6.2
    8 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Google Cloud Dataflow
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    Data model creation2.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Fivetran and Google Cloud Dataflow
    Feature
    Fivetran
    8.3
    7 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Google Cloud Dataflow
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    Integration with data quality tools8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Fivetran and Google Cloud Dataflow
    Feature
    Fivetran
    -
    Ratings
    Google Cloud Dataflow
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Real-Time Data Analysis00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Low Latency00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Data Enrichment00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score10 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FivetranGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FivetranGoogle Cloud Dataflow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
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    Google
    It is best in cases where you have batch as well as streaming data. Also in some cases where you have batch data right now and in future you will get streaming data. In those cases Dataflow is very good. Also in cases where most of your infra is on GCP. It might not be good when you already are on AWS or Azure. And also you want in-depth control over security and management. Then you can directly use Apache beam over Dataflow.
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    Pros
    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
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    Google
    • Streaming, Real time work load
    • Batch processing
    • Auto scaling
    • flexible pricing
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    Cons
    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
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    Google
    • More templates for Bigquery and App Engine. There is only limited options for templates so the things we use can limit.
    • I would like native connectors for Excel (XLSX) to reduce the need for custom wrappers in financial pipelines.
    • Debugging Google Cloud Dataflow using only logs in Cloud Logging can be overwhelming sometimes, and it’s not always obvious which specific element in the flow caused a failure. IT uses a lot of time.
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    Usability
    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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    Google
    It really saved a lot of time and it's flexibility really can give you infra which is future-proof for most of the use cases may it be streaming or batch data. And with this you can avoid use of resource-heavy big data offerings.
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    Performance
    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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    Google
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    Google
    Google Cloud Dataproc Cloud Datafusion
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    Return on Investment
    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
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    Google
    • cost saving from managing our own data center for ETL servers
    • consumption based pricing
    • with auto scaling feature, we were able to expand components to support work load
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