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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

    Snowflake

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
    Pricing
    Maia by MatillionSnowflake
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Maia by MatillionSnowflake
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    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 MatillionSnowflake
    Considered Both Products
    Matillion
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    The only other ETL tool I've used was SSIS. At first I thought Matillion seemed "kiddish" after using the polished Microsoft tool but now I think Matillion is easier and can do much more as it has so many built-in connectors etc. We selected Matillion at our job because of …
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion was chosen by Schibsted due to the seamless integration with Snowflake. The ease of use and fast workflow have made it an essential tool in our setup, and with the option to integrate nearly every data source there is, plus the ease of use, it really gives a lot of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Works better than Informatica but does not fare as well as Snowflake.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    1. Better push down to Snowflake
    2. Small investment to start using product
    3. Easy to setup and get started
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    I have not used any other products yet
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    I think Matillion is more cost effective and user friendly as compared to the ones mentioned
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion has better capabilities and better built-in elements that saves your time and efforts. also the connectivity across multiple data warehousing tool is better in Matillion. even the performance of the pipeline and the time required to create a particular pipeline is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion is affordable, easy to use with a graphical interface
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    In my opinion Matillion provides more flexibility then the other tools I mentioned.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    n/a -- joined the team after they already were established in Matillion. Have had brief looks at other ETL products but found nothing compelling enough to suggest a change.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by 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 …
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Cost and ease of use were better for our purposes. Matillion distinguishes itself from Fivetran and SnapLogic through its user-friendly design, no-code interface, in-depth transformation capabilities, allowing for complex data manipulations directly within the platform, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    We decided to move forward with Matillion because it was the best tool among tools that support both ingesting data from a source system to a target database and running transformation workflows on it afterwards. Fivetran and Airbyte only support data ingestion and we had our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Removes most of the complexity around setting up and preparing things.
    If you could describe with words what needs to be done to move data from A to B, the implementation in Matillion would probably be the most similar in terms of simplicity of understanding what you are doing …
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    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Much easier to use
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion is much easier to set up and easier to work for the team. Offers a lot more connections which are easier to set up. Environment variables make it easy to set up once and job creation is easy. We use Metadata tables to just loop through the list of tables that need to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion ran circles around Stitch and Striim both in functionality, setup, and performance. There was no real comparison. Fivetran massively outperforms Matillion in pretty much every facet of the production from setup, maintenance, visibility, and usability. It already …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Airflow would be a lot to manage. Alteryx is good but we have specific use-cases where Matillion is much better.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    dbt is great for engineers and those comfortable with coding. Matillion is the low-code alternative with a huge emphasis on collaboration with ease. You don't need to checkout a branch, clone, pull, merge etc. in order to help your colleague with a data pipeline. The simple …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Similar to Alteryx. Feels more modern.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    I tried to use several opensource tools before Matillion. They were not bad, but I spent a ton of time maintaining the system, and debugging why things wouldn't work. It also seemed like everything needed a hack to get it working properly. With Matillion, it just works outside …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Overall had a better value for money
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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 was not part of the selection process and have only used SQL and Python for building data pipelines.
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    Snowflake Computing
    Chose Snowflake
    Snowflake fits perfectly into our BI stack, with Matillion delivering the data on a daily schedule, and feeding into Tableau for analysis and further manipulating.
    Incentivized
    Chose Snowflake
    Snowflake provides various features, such as integration with Python using Snowpark. The reporting feature that caters to your small reporting needs is Snowsight. The Snowflake data marketplace is where you can get multiple data for free and even some of the data which you can …
    Incentivized
    Chose Snowflake
    Snowflake beats these other products in every category it was rated against
    Incentivized
    Chose Snowflake
    In my experience running the data management practice at InterWorks, we believe that cloud data warehouse products will eventually serve the majority of data warehousing use cases and power data analytics at most companies. Of this cohort, we believe that Snowflake is the best …
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    Chose Snowflake
    Redshift compute and storage can be scaled up/down together (though they added some features recently, they don't quite add up). I haven't tried Avalanche or Firebolt but would love to in the near future, due to their pedigree or revolutionary billing methods.
    Incentivized
    Chose Snowflake
    The average percentage of time that a data warehouse is actually doing something is around 20%. Given this, the price by query estimate becomes an important pricing consideration.

    For this, Snowflake crucially decouples of storage and compute. With Snowflake you pay for 1) …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Maia by MatillionSnowflake
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Maia by Matillion and Snowflake
    Feature
    Maia by Matillion
    8.7
    143 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Snowflake
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    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 Snowflake
    Feature
    Maia by Matillion
    8.8
    143 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Snowflake
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    Ratings
    Simple transformations9.5143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations8.2142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Maia by Matillion and Snowflake
    Feature
    Maia by Matillion
    8.4
    135 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Snowflake
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    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 Snowflake
    Feature
    Maia by Matillion
    8.2
    23 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Snowflake
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    Integration with data quality tools8.222 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools8.220 Ratings00 Ratings
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    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Maia by MatillionSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (145 ratings)
    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (144 ratings)
    8.8
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (131 ratings)
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    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 MatillionSnowflake
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
    • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
    • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
    • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
    • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
    • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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    Implementation Rating
    Matillion
    We were able to control on access and built various enviroment for implementation
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    Snowflake Computing
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
    • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
    • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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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.

    Snowflake Screenshots

    Screenshot of Snowflake Installation