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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM DataStage

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AIBM® DataStage® is a data integration tool that helps users to design, develop and run jobs that move and transform data. At its core, the DataStage tool supports extract, transform and load (ETL) and extract, load and transform (ELT) patterns. A basic version of the software is available for on-premises deployment, and the cloud-based DataStage for IBM Cloud Pak® for Data offers automated integration capabilities in a hybrid or multicloud environment.N/A

    SingleStore

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASingleStore aims to enable organizations to scale from one to one million customers, handling SQL, JSON, full text and vector workloads in one unified platform.

    $0.69

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    Pricing
    IBM DataStageSingleStore
    Editions & Modules
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    OnDemand
    $0.69
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM DataStageSingleStore
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    IBM DataStageSingleStore
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    65 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    Features
    IBM DataStageSingleStore
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of IBM DataStage and SingleStore
    Feature
    IBM DataStage
    7.7
    11 Ratings
    8% below category average
    SingleStore
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    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL7.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of IBM DataStage and SingleStore
    Feature
    IBM DataStage
    7.6
    11 Ratings
    7% below category average
    SingleStore
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    Simple transformations8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of IBM DataStage and SingleStore
    Feature
    IBM DataStage
    7.2
    11 Ratings
    10% below category average
    SingleStore
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    Data model creation7.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management5.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration7.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging6.711 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of IBM DataStage and SingleStore
    Feature
    IBM DataStage
    5.3
    10 Ratings
    42% below category average
    SingleStore
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    Integration with data quality tools5.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools5.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of IBM DataStage and SingleStore
    Feature
    IBM DataStage
    -
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    SingleStore
    6.9
    3 Ratings
    16% below category average
    ACID compliance00 Ratings5.93 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Database locking00 Ratings6.63 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Disaster recovery00 Ratings5.93 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM DataStageSingleStore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.9
    (11 ratings)
    7.2
    (76 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.8
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (50 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    8.2
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    Vendor pre-sale
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM DataStageSingleStore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    DataStage is somewhat outdated for an ETL. I guess that's what makes it a bit lagged behind its competitors. It can be used for data processing, sure, but its performance seems to be lagging behind or quite slow given the server it is running from. I won’t depend on this application if it's handling a lot of mission-critical banking and business data.
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    SingleStore
    Good for Applications needing instant insights on large, streaming datasets. Applications processing continuous data streams with low latency. When a multi-cloud, high-availability database is required When NOT to Use Small-scale applications with limited budgets Projects that do not require real-time analytics or distributed scaling Teams without experience in distributed databases and HTAP architectures.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Connect to multiple types of data-sources including Oracle, Teradata, Snowflake, SQl Server.
    • Powerful tool to load large volumes of data.
    • Transformation stages allow us to reduce the amount of code needed to create ETL scripts.
    • Allow us to synchronize and refresh data as much as needed.
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    SingleStore
    • Technical support is stellar -- far above and beyond anything I've experienced with any other company.
    • When we compared SingleStore to other databases two years ago, we found SingleStore performance to be far superior.
    • Pipeline data ingestion is exceptionally fast.
    • The ability to combine transactional and analytical workloads without compromising performance is very impressive.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Technical support is a key area IBM should improve for this product. Sometimes our case is assigned to a support engineer and he has no idea of the product or services.
    • Provide custom reports for datastage jobs and performance such as job history reports, warning messages or error messages.
    • Make it fully compatible with Oracle and users can direct use of Oracle ODBC drivers instead of Data Direct driver. Same for SQL server.
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    SingleStore
    • It does not release a patch to have back porting; it just releases a new version and stops support; it's difficult to keep up to that pace.
    • Support engineers lack expertise, but they seem to be improving organically.
    • Lacks enterprise CDC capability: Change data capture (CDC) is a process that tracks and records changes made to data in a database and then delivers those changes to other systems in real time.
    • For enterprise-level backup & restore capability, we had to implement our model via Velero snapshot backup.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    We haven't seen a faster relation database. Period. Which is why we are super happy customers and will for sure renew our license.
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    Usability
    IBM
    Because it is robust, and it is being continuously improved. DS is one of the most used and recognized tools in the market. Large companies have implemented it in the first instance to develop their DW, but finding the advantages it has, they could use it for other types of projects such as migrations, application feeding, etc.
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    SingleStore
    [Until it is] supported on AWS ECS containers, I will reserve a higher rating for SingleStore. Right now it works well on EC2 and serves our current purpose, [but] would look forward to seeing SingleStore respond to our urge of feature in a shorter time period with high quality and security.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    Solutions are based around a business needs and even when implementing such solution, real time insights are also followed through showing the updates the business are implementing while informing the end users as what is new with technology.
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    Performance
    IBM
    It could load thousands of records in seconds. But in the Parallel version, you need to understand how to particionate the data. If you use the algorithms erroneously, or the functionalities that it gives for the parsing of data, the performance can fall drastically, even with few records. It is necessary to have people with experience to be able to determine which algorithm to use and understand why.
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    SingleStore
    SingleStore excels in real-time analytics and low-latency transactions, making it ideal for operational analytics and mixed workloads. Snowflake shines in batch analytics and data warehousing with strong scalability for large datasets. SingleStore offers faster data ingestion and query execution for real-time use cases, while Snowflake is better for complex analytical queries on historical data.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    IBM offers different levels of support but in my experience being and IBM shop helps to get direct support from more knowledgeable technicians from IBM. Not sure on the cost of having this kind of support, but I know there's also general support and community blogs and websites on the Internet make it easy to troubleshoot issues whenever there's need for that.
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    SingleStore
    The support deep dives into our most complexed queries and bizarre issues that sometimes only we get comparing to other clients. Our special workload (thousands of Kafka pipelines + high concurrency of queries). The response match to the priority of the request, P1 gets immediate return call. Missing features are treated, they become a client request and being added to the roadmap after internal consideration on all client needs and priority. Bugs are patched quite fast, depends on the impact and feasible temporary workarounds. There is no issue that we haven't got a proper answer, resolution or reasoning
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    Online Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    Would prefer in person training but for online training, it's almost as good as in person
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    We allowed 2-3 months for a thorough evaluation. We saw pretty quickly that we were likely to pick SingleStore, so we ported some of our stored procedures to SingleStore in order to take a deeper look. Two SingleStore people worked closely with us to ensure that we did not have any blocking problems. It all went remarkably smoothly.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    With effective capabilities and easy to manipulate the features and easy to produce accurate data analytics and the Cloud services Automation, this IBM platform is more reliable and easy to document management. The features on this platform are equipped with excellent big data management and easy to provide accurate data analytics.
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    SingleStore
    Greenplum is good in handling very large amount of data. Concurrency in Greenplum was a major problem. Features available in SingleStore like Pipelines and in memory features are not available in Greenplum. Gemfire was not scaling well like SingleStore. Support of both Greenplum and Gemfire was not good. Product team did not help us much like the ones in SingleStore who helped us getting started on our first cluster very fast.
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    Scalability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    Very reliable. Coming from mariadb, singlestore has made our application more reliable and faster!
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • It’s hard to say at this point, it delivers, but not quite as I expected. It takes a lot of resources to manage and sort this out (manpower, financial).
    • Definitely, I don’t have the exact numbers, but given the data it processes, it is A LOT. So props to the developer of this application.
    • Again, based on my experience, I’d choose other ETL apps if there is one that's more user-friendly.
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    SingleStore
    • As the overall performance and functionality were expanded, we are able to deliver our data much faster than before, which increases the demand for data.
    • Metadata is available in the platform by default, like metadata on the pipelines. Also, the information schema has lots of metadata, making it easy to load our assets to the data catalog.
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