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    Maia by Matillion

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMaia by Matillion is an autonomous data engineering platform designed to automate the lifecycle of data pipelines through AI-driven orchestration. The solution functions as an enterprise "digital workforce" that translates natural language requirements into production-ready DataPipelines, leveraging a Pushdown Architecture to execute transformations natively within cloud data warehouses.N/A

    Amazon Redshift

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Redshift is a hosted data warehouse solution, from Amazon Web Services.

    $0.24

    per GB per month

    Pricing
    Maia by MatillionAmazon Redshift
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Redshift Managed Storage
    $0.24
    per GB per month
    Current Generation
    $0.25 - $13.04
    per hour
    Previous Generation
    $0.25 - $4.08
    per hour
    Redshift Spectrum
    $5.00
    per terabyte of data scanned
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Maia by MatillionAmazon Redshift
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBilled directly via cloud marketplace on an hourly basis, with annual subscriptions available depending on the customer's cloud data warehouse provider.—
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    Community Pulse
    Maia by MatillionAmazon Redshift
    Considered Both Products
    Matillion
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Being a fairly new player in the market, Matillion is coming up against some well-established names such as Pentaho and Talend. The primary benefit for our use case was the fact that Matillion is built specifically for Amazon Redshift. While Pentaho and Talend are more mature …
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    When compared with other technologies , Matillion was cost effective , more scalable and flexible in terms of complexity and components. The licensing cost of Matillion was also less and the flexibility with components helps in implementing complex business logics. The training …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    I have not used any other cloud-based ETL tools. Only on-premise solutions.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    I didn't do the compare or eval, tool was chosen before I was hired.
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Pentaho was used initially but the support was terrible. It was taking years to fix bugs and the scheduler was buggy, and it took an eternity to get the issue with the misfired job on the quartz Java scheduler to become made reliable. Informatica is a great tool that was …
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Before the ETL tool we made the decision to stick to Redshift as a database. Compared to listed products (that I used) I would say that the decision was easy if we consider the sync with AWS and Redshift, cloud-based solution, team collaboration, built-in scheduling, and …
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    I used Airflow, AWS Data Pipeline, mETL, and night-shift. Airflow and AWS Data Pipeline is simply horrible. mETL is still better, but the GUI is not that easy.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    There's a number of systems not available to enter in here that we also took a look at: AWS Data pipeline, Airflow, Xplenty, etc. The reason we chose Matillion is for the balance of features (ability to connect into cloud data sources like Jira), a simple interface to put …
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is built around the Microsoft ecosystem; we needed something that was either "ecosystem-agnostic" or focused on AWS, which Matillion is. SSIS has very limited ability to parameterize jobs/packages compared to Matillion, reducing the …
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    We've our own home-grown Java based ETL application. This application calls for code changes frequently, which is not the case with Matillion.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion is purely cloud solution versus Informatica Cloud still requires PowerCenter to do any serious transformation work.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Generally, Matillion is much easier to get up and running, quicker to deliver value and returns on your ELT process, and simpler to maintain. The speed to get data connections and start pulling data is so quick that you can focus on the transformations and business rules …
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion ease of use and feature set along with integration capabilities and built in integrations are definitely a step ahead than the other tools and it provides the ability for us ti integrate with refshift, Snowflake and on premise data sources and hence becomes a …
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    SSIS, Attunity
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    Matillion seemed more robust than Fivetran and was easier to use.
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Our organization hires present college students in an apprenticeship role, so it was important to us that whatever tool we use to be easy to train on. We also preferred that it integrate well with Snowflake since we had decided that we wanted to use that as our data storage …
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion is easier to set up and use. Works well for cloud data warehouses. Falls short when legacy application connectors are required, this is where Talend and Informatica have the upper hand.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    We evaluated Fivetran, TreasureData, StitchData and few other options. But only with Matillion did we have the option of a cloud-based ETL solution that we were able to host within the APAC-Sydney region to ensure our data stays within our region.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion is the only dedicated ETL solution we have used in the current data team. However, we decided to use Matillion because the BI front-end solution we also chose at the time, Periscope, recommended them to us and have a solid working relationship with them. So far, both …
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    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Redshift
    The best advantage for us was the easy way to integrate our current solution in AWS to Amazon Redshift.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Redshift
    Most of our stack is on AWS, so while Snowflake and BigQuery was a viable option from a performance perspective, it was easier to integrate with RedShift. We considered hosting SQL Server on AWS or using Amazon RDS (Postgres or MySQL), however, the self-service aspect of …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
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    78%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
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    78%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Maia by MatillionAmazon Redshift
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Maia by Matillion and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Maia by Matillion
    8.7
    143 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Amazon Redshift
    -
    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources9.0142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL8.3100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Maia by Matillion and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Maia by Matillion
    8.8
    143 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Amazon Redshift
    -
    Ratings
    Simple transformations9.5143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations8.2142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Maia by Matillion and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Maia by Matillion
    8.4
    135 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Amazon Redshift
    -
    Ratings
    Data model creation9.133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management9.140 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow8.4126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration7.8127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging7.9128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Maia by Matillion and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Maia by Matillion
    8.2
    23 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Amazon Redshift
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    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools8.222 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools8.220 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Maia by MatillionAmazon Redshift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (145 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (144 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (131 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Maia by MatillionAmazon Redshift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Matillion
    Great: Need to query simpler APIs, or utilize well known services such as GSheets etc.? Matillion has got some of the best and easiest to use connectors out there. Not so great: Do you need have a competent CI/CD flow that you will be able to update / compare from Matillion as well as other sources at the same time? Good luck, you will need to be extra careful, as you might have to have a deeper dive into your servers Terminal each time you have a git conflict.
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    Amazon AWS
    If the number of connections is expected to be low, but the amounts of data are large or projected to grow it is a good solutions especially if there is previous exposure to PostgreSQL. Speaking of Postgres, Redshift is based on several versions old releases of PostgreSQL so the developers would not be able to take advantage of some of the newer SQL language features. The queries need some fine-tuning still, indexing is not provided, but playing with sorting keys becomes necessary. Lastly, there is no notion of the Primary Key in Redshift so the business must be prepared to explain why duplication occurred (must be vigilant for)
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    Pros
    Matillion
    • The user interface of your data pipelines makes it easier for people who aren’t as techy as data engineers to observe what's going on.
    • Customer support is quick, not always as efficient as you would want it to be, but still.
    • Nice documentation available.
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    Amazon AWS
    • [Amazon] Redshift has Distribution Keys. If you correctly define them on your tables, it improves Query performance. For instance, we can define Mapping/Meta-data tables with Distribution-All Key, so that it gets replicated across all the nodes, for fast joins and fast query results.
    • [Amazon] Redshift has Sort Keys. If you correctly define them on your tables along with above Distribution Keys, it further improves your Query performance. It also has Composite Sort Keys and Interleaved Sort Keys, to support various use cases
    • [Amazon] Redshift is forked out of PostgreSQL DB, and then AWS added "MPP" (Massively Parallel Processing) and "Column Oriented" concepts to it, to make it a powerful data store.
    • [Amazon] Redshift has "Analyze" operation that could be performed on tables, which will update the stats of the table in leader node. This is sort of a ledger about which data is stored in which node and which partition with in a node. Up to date stats improves Query performance.
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    Cons
    Matillion
    • Matillion is brilliant at importing data -- it would be amazing to have more ways to export data, from emailed exports to API pushes.
    • Any Python that takes more than a few lines of code requires an external server to run it. It would be great to have more integration (perhaps in a connected virtual environment) to easily integrate customized code.
    • Troubleshooting server logs requires quite a bit of technical expertise. More human readable detailed error handling would be greatly appreciated.
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    Amazon AWS
    • We've experienced some problems with hanging queries on Redshift Spectrum/external tables. We've had to roll back to and old version of Redshift while we wait for AWS to provide a patch.
    • Redshift's dialect is most similar to that of PostgreSQL 8. It lacks many modern features and data types.
    • Constraints are not enforced. We must rely on other means to verify the integrity of transformed tables.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Matillion
    With the current experience of Matillion, we are likely to renew with the current feature option but will also look for improvement in various areas including scalability and dependability. 1. Connectors: It offers various connectors option but isn't full proof which we will be looking forward as we grow. 2. Scalability: As usage increase, we want Matillion system to be more stable.
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    Amazon AWS
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    Usability
    Matillion
    We are able to bring on new resources and teach them how to use Matillion without having to invest a significant amount of time. We prefer looking for resources with any type of ETL skill-set and feel that they can learn Matillion without problem. In addition, the prebuilt objects cover more than 95% of our use cases and we do not have to build much from scratch.
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    Amazon AWS
    Just very happy with the product, it fits our needs perfectly. Amazon pioneered the cloud and we have had a positive experience using RedShift. Really cool to be able to see your data housed and to be able to query and perform administrative tasks with ease.
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    Support Rating
    Matillion
    Overall, I've found Matillion to be responsive and considerate. I feel like they value us as a customer even when I know they have customers who spend more on the product than we do. That speaks to a motive higher than money. They want to make a good product and a good experience for their customers. If I have any complaint, it's that support sometimes feels community-oriented. It isn't always immediately clear to me that my support requests are going to a support engineer and not to the community at large. Usually, though, after a bit of conversation, it's clear that Matillion is watching and responding. And responses are generally quick in coming.
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    Amazon AWS
    The support was great and helped us in a timely fashion. We did use a lot of online forums as well, but the official documentation was an ongoing one, and it did take more time for us to look through it. We would have probably chosen a competitor product had it not been for the great support
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    Implementation Rating
    Matillion
    We were able to control on access and built various enviroment for implementation
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    Amazon AWS
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    Alternatives Considered
    Matillion
    Fivetran offers a managed service and pre-configured schemas/models for data loading, which means much less administrative work for initial setup and ongoing maintenance. But it comes at a much higher price tag. So, knowing where your sweet spot is in the build vs. buy spectrum is essential to deciding which tool fits better. For the transformation part, dbt is purely (SQL-) code-based. So, it is mainly whether your developers prefer a GUI or code-based approach.
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    Amazon AWS
    Than Vertica: Redshift is cheaper and AWS integrated (which was a plus because the whole company was on AWS).
    Than BigQuery: Redshift has a standard SQL interface, though recently I heard good things about BigQuery and would try it out again.
    Than Hive: Hive is great if you are in the PB+ range, but latencies tend to be much slower than Redshift and it is not suited for ad-hoc applications.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Matillion
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon AWS
    Redshift is relatively cheaper tool but since the pricing is dynamic, there is always a risk of exceeding the cost. Since most of our team is using it as self serve and there is no continuous tracking by a dedicated team, it really needs time & effort on analyst's side to know how much it is going to cost.
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    Scalability
    Matillion
    We're using Matillion on EC2 instances, and we have about 20 projects for our clients in the same instance. Sometimes, we're struggling to manage schedules for all projects because thread management is not visible, and we can't see the process at the instance level.
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    Amazon AWS
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    Return on Investment
    Matillion
    • Matillion has been the backbone of my company's analytical functionalities for 10+ years, so it has a good ROI.
    • The price is ok for what our company built with it, but it starts to be less competitive if the tool is not used at its fullest.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Our company is moving to the AWS infrastructure, and in this context moving the warehouse environments to Redshift sounds logical regardless of the cost.
    • Development organizations have to operate in the Dev/Ops mode where they build and support their apps at the same time.
    • Hard to estimate the overall ROI of moving to Redshift from my position. However, running Redshift seems to be inexpensive compared to all the licensing and hardware costs we had on our RDBMS platform before Redshift.
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    ScreenShots

    Maia by Matillion Screenshots

    Screenshot of Matillion's GUI, used to orchestrate jobs with control data flow functionality, automating the ETL process.Screenshot of where structured and semi-structured data can be prepared to create clean data sets that can be used with any BI/reporting/visualization tool of choice. Matillion reads and combines data across a target warehouse external storage, such as S3 or Blob.Screenshot of Matillion's self-validating components, sample and row counts. If a job does fail, the warehouse queue services available with Matillion can be used get an alert to a connected email or Slack account.Screenshot of the SQL component used to run custom scripts from within Matillion. With hundreds of pre-built connectors out of the box, Matillion can handle complex transformation needs.