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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

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Standard

$0.01

Cloud
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Enterprise

$0.01

Cloud
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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
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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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Highly recommend Fivetran

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 02, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fivetran
1 year of experience
We use Fivetran as our Extract Transform Load provider bringing data from all our various third-party services into our Data Warehouse in Microsoft Azure. Personally, I've used it extensively with Twilio's sendgrid connector in bringing and formatting all of our email and notification data into the warehouse for data analysts internally to run more extensive analysis on it.
  • UI is very clean.
  • Documentation is easy to use.
  • Plenty of connectors for different third party services.
Cons
  • Honestly, not much they're already crushing it!
  • If I had to say one thing, I guess I would say make it more accessible to non-data engineers.
I think it's suited best for what it was built for, ETL pipelines expedited. If you are a startup that has a software product with various different data sources that you need to quickly and reliably bring all together to some kind of centralized data store, Givetrain is well suited for this use case. If that isn't part of your business needs to do this data consolidation before any analysis it probably isn't well suited for your use case.

Fivetran - next generation data replication

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 22, 2021
Fivetran is used as a near real-time data replication solution between several source systems and organization-wide databases. Sources include traditional RDBMS, APIs, SAP Hana, etc. Fivetran is a reliable, and available service that did not result in any performance or data issues during its tenure with the data platform. It also supports some data transformations which are helpful to some use cases.
  • Near real time Data replication
  • Basic standardization
  • Availability of a wide variety of ingestion plugins
Cons
  • View based ingestion from RDBMS
  • Detailed Logging
  • API support
Fivetran is very well suited for any near real-time ingestion requirements for available plugins. Do not use it for complex data standardization as it only supports some features with that respect. Fivetran provides the required information on data volume, cost applicable, which is helpful to plan future ingestions. Sometimes historical refresh cost goes very high, but users also can be trained to save cost with appropriate measures.

Digital Seamless data provider only when you know your data requirement in advance.

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 04, 2021
SK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fivetran
2 years of experience
Fivetran has lots of digital connectors available with them required in our organization to make business decisions. Our Data management is the main consumer of the product, which then widely gets consumed in the organization's analytical format to make strategies. We are data-driven digital marketers that rely on data to make decision. The sources are expanding and handling them individually makes them very challenging and that's where Fivetran helps us solve the problem.
  • Seamless connector for data requirements
  • Custom reports
  • Database Connection
  • Change Lod
Cons
  • User-based control
Fivetran's business model justifies the use-case where we require data from a single source basically a lot of data but if the requirement is not on the heavier side, Fivetran comes to costly operation when compared to its peers. Otherwise, I'll recommend Fivetran for stability and update and seamless service provider.

Fivetran makes ELT quick and easy

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 12, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fivetran
1 year of experience
Fivetran is used by our reporting and analytics team to ingest data from multiple SaaS, Ad platform, and internal data sources. Fivetran supports our ELT approach using delivered connectors for most of our data sources.
  • Easily connects to source data using delivered connectors
  • Transforms data into standard models and schemas
  • Has very good documentation to help quickly setup connectors
Cons
  • Alerting and notification could be enhanced and be more timely in some cases
  • The error messages when there are connector setup issues could be more clear
[Fivetran is] very well suited when you are using popular and common data sources, such as the major ad platforms, and SaaS platforms such as Salesforce.
If the majority of your data sources are custom internal applications or databases, may be less value as you aren't leveraging the delivered connectors.

Fivetran for fast data replication

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 03, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fivetran
2 years of experience
We use Fivetran at my organization to securely replicate data from our production databases to our data warehouses in Snowflake, syncing production data at regular intervals on a daily schedule. This allows us to efficiently move data without impacting our production systems and allows us to keep more historically complete records of the life of data that exists in our production databases.
  • Allows triggering of transformations using basic SQL transformations performed when new data is loaded or synced over
  • Supporting data sync without affecting production databases availability or increasing load on production databases
  • Providing out-of-the-box connectors for quick and easy connection to a variety of commonly used databases
  • Supporting a variety of data sources (not only databases but also files like JSON or CSV files with exported data
Cons
  • Doesn't include support for a Kinesis stream as a data source so couldn't be used for some use cases under consideration
  • Doesn't support the use of "BEFORE DELETE" triggers
  • No support for serverless Aurora
Fivetran is a good choice if you want to get started quickly with replicating production transactional database tables to Snowflake with minimal impact on production. Setup is fast and Fivetran provides a user-friendly interface that can be used to resync individual tables if necessary. It's a good solution for a mature database schema where certain tables hold a very large amount of data, which when replicated into a system like Snowflake allows users to execute queries against the dataset that would otherwise be very slow and not perform well directly against the production database.
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