Bitwise offers Hydrograph, a data integration tool with provides ETL functionality on Hadoop and Spark.
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SolarWinds Task Factory
Score 8.2 out of 10
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According to the vendor, SolarWinds Task Factory saves time managing tedious ELT/ETL tasks with high-performing SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) components that can be used within the Visual Studio environment to connect to nearly any data source. Task Factory’s components and tasks have been optimized to ensure fast performance of data-centric applications, and the user can run Task Factory…
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Hydrograph
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Task Factory
1,245 (annual subscription license)
per server
Task Factory Azure Data Factory
1,495 (annual subscription license)
per ADF node
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Hydrograph
SolarWinds Task Factory
Free Trial
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Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Hydrograph
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Features
Hydrograph
SolarWinds Task Factory
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Hydrograph
6.0
1 Ratings
32% below category average
SolarWinds Task Factory
9.4
40 Ratings
13% above category average
Connect to traditional data sources
5.01 Ratings
9.440 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Hydrograph
6.5
1 Ratings
23% below category average
SolarWinds Task Factory
9.2
39 Ratings
12% above category average
Simple transformations
5.01 Ratings
8.739 Ratings
Complex transformations
8.01 Ratings
9.635 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Hydrograph
5.4
1 Ratings
37% below category average
SolarWinds Task Factory
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Data model creation
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow
4.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Collaboration
5.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Testing and debugging
6.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Since I started working with this great tool all data analysis programs have been running effectively. Implementation of projects and tasks have been effective and reliable. Data collected from each department gives us working plan on better management of various programs. The Dimension Merge SCD Transform helps us to load large volumes of data within a short period of time.
The single most beneficial component to Task Factory is the Upsert component. If you're familiar with writing MERGE statements in T-SQL, you'll appreciate the Upsert component. Drag the component into your Data Flow and a few clicks later you have a MERGE without the code complexities.
Where some native SSIS components leave you wanting more, Task Factory extends on many of these components as well as support for data sources not native to SSIS components.
The number of extra components that come in the Task Factory tool kit will expand your tool belt to do just about anything you need or want to accomplish in SSIS.
It was built by Pragmatic Works who sold it to SentryOne and now Solar Winds, concerned about future support. SolarWinds is discontinuing support for related products such as BiXpress.
Had issues with connecting to certain versions of SQL Server - would fail when deploying one package - had to deploy the entire solutions.
Occasional random failures observed with the Filter tranform.
Task Factory has become a key product for our use of doing ETL work in SSIS. Their custom SSIS components allow us to work simply on the data engineering side of things. We can ignore the lower level work needed to connect to disparate data sources. This allows us to work faster and provide more value to the business
Overall, the best vendor we currently have on the data side of the house. No issues, issues are resolved very quickly and upgrades go without any issues.
ZappySys is an alternative provider that we tested. However, we found the ease of use, set up and installation to be much simplier and quicker using Task Factory. ZappySys has a number of the same connectors but are more difficult to setup and the GUI is not as intuitive and simple to use.
We were able to support our developers with Task Factory features and reduce the development time by 40%.
Recently Task Factory has changed their pricing module and it seems to be pretty costly for our process. Our business team has started to evaluate whether this is worth it going forward.