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Fivetran

Overview

What is Fivetran?

Fivetran 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…

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Pricing

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Starter

$0.01

Cloud
per credit

Standard

$0.01

Cloud
per credit

Enterprise

$0.01

Cloud
per credit

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.fivetran.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $0.01
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Product Demos

Fivetran - Interactive Demo

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Features

Data Source Connection

Ability to connect to multiple data sources

10
Avg 8.3

Data Transformations

Data transformations include calculations, search and replace, data normalization and data parsing

6.3
Avg 8.1

Data Modeling

A data model is a diagram or flowchart that illustrates the relationships between data

6.1
Avg 8.0

Data Governance

Data governance is the practise of implementing policies defining effective use of an organization's data assets

9
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Fivetran?

Fivetran 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 analytics projects, Fivetran developed zero-configuration, zero-maintenance pipelines to deliver data into modern cloud warehouses.

Shaped by the real-world needs of data analysts and business intelligence users, Fivetran technology promises to enable organizations to control their data without complex engineering and ultimately supports data-backed decisions and company culture.

Fivetran Features

  • Supported: Five-minute setup
  • Supported: Complete replication from any source
  • Supported: Fully managed 24x7
  • Supported: Normalized schemas from denormalized APIs
  • Supported: Automatic schema migrations

Fivetran Videos

Fivetran Customer Video: Optimizely
Fivetran Customer Story: Kiva

Fivetran Competitors

Fivetran Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesWorldwide
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Fivetran starts at $0.01.

Alooma and Stitch from Talend are common alternatives for Fivetran.

Reviewers rate Connect to traditional data sources and Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Fivetran are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Automating the data extraction and loading part with ease

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 31, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fivetran
4 years of experience
We want to load data from various operational systems into our central data warehouse. Fivetran supports this task with minimal setup and maintenance effort on our side. This allows us to focus on the value adding tasks instead of on moving data between systems. We use Fivetran to sync data from CRM, Marketing Automation, ERP, HR, Subscription Management and Billing, and Support systems.
  • Small initial setup effort
  • Fivetran automatically takes care to fix loading issues
  • Has connectors to many different systems
Cons
  • 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
If your source systems have a supported connector and the provided schemas from Fivetran work for you, then I consider it well suited. Also make sure based on your volume estimations if the costs work out for you. If you want to focus your data engineers on more value adding tasks and outsource the "moving data from A to B" part, then Fivetran is a great match. If you want to custom-develop all the data integrations and have a sufficiently large workforce to do so, then you might not need it.
Data Source Connection (2)
100%
10.0
Connect to traditional data sources
100%
10.0
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL
100%
10.0
Data Transformations (2)
80%
8.0
Simple transformations
80%
8.0
Complex transformations
80%
8.0
Data Modeling (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Business rules and workflow
80%
8.0
Collaboration
80%
8.0
Testing and debugging
90%
9.0
Data Governance (2)
80%
8.0
Integration with data quality tools
80%
8.0
Integration with MDM tools
80%
8.0
  • Saved a lot of manual development days (unable to quantify)
  • Accelerated the time to add a new source to the data warehouse a lot
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.
Matillion requires a lot more initial setup effort and the resulting schemas are also much more "raw" data than the nicely cleaned schemas which Fivetran provides. Therefore it would also require more (manual) post-processing efforts compared to Fivetran. So the savings on time and internal resources are not as big. Stitch did not have as many supported source systems based on our specific requirements and also was more expensive for our case.
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