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TIBCO Data Virtualization

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What is TIBCO Data Virtualization?

TIBCO Data Virtualization is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources and delivers the datasets and IT-curated data services foundation for nearly any solution.

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10 out of 10
April 05, 2023
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Vice President, Data Architecture
Pimco (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
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Carlos Castro
Head of BPM & Data Virtualization CoE
NOS (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
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Product Details

What is TIBCO Data Virtualization?

TIBCO® Data Virtualization aims to break down data silos and makes complex, distributed data environments simple – placing a business-friendly layer over data that makes it easier to find, understand, and use. Users focus on data’s business value, while data engineers take care of the rest. The solution lets users build and manage virtualized datasets and IT curated data services with speed and its out-of-the-box data sources supports the most demanding connectivity needs, with the goal of providing more data sources than any competitor.

TIBCO® Data Virtualization has been deployed in companies in financial services, energy, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, healthcare, government, transportation, communications, and technology.

TIBCO Data Virtualization Features

Data Visualization Features

  • Supported: Data Visualization Options
  • Supported: Interactivity
  • Supported: Data Import and Export
  • Supported: Dashboard Creation
  • Supported: Customization Capabilities
  • Supported: Data Filtering and Sorting
  • Supported: Project Collaboration Tools
  • Supported: Real-time Data Updates
  • Supported: Cross-platform Accessibility
  • Supported: Data Analytics Integration

Additional Features

  • Supported: Self-service UI
  • Supported: Data Catalog
  • Supported: Metadata Repository
  • Supported: Modeling & Transformation
  • Supported: Secuirty
  • Supported: Caching
  • Supported: Quality
  • Supported: Governance
  • Supported: Management
  • Supported: Performance Optimization
  • Supported: Version Control
  • Supported: Runtime Environment
  • Supported: Data Access
  • Supported: Data Delivery
  • Supported: Active Cluster
  • Supported: Deployment Manager
  • Supported: composite Data Views

TIBCO Data Virtualization Screenshots

Screenshot of Data Flow EditorScreenshot of Data CatalogScreenshot of Transform Editor

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TIBCO Data Virtualization Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, Japanese

Frequently Asked Questions

TIBCO Data Virtualization is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources and delivers the datasets and IT-curated data services foundation for nearly any solution.

Denodo, Dremio, and AtScale are common alternatives for TIBCO Data Virtualization.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.9.

The most common users of TIBCO Data Virtualization are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 27, 2023

Data Virtualization ... Evolution or Revolution

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Carlos Castro
Head of BPM & Data Virtualization CoE
NOS (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Identified as one important enabler for the new digital ecosystem, is helping NOS build a Digital Stack and deliver new capabilities much faster and enforce security, resilience, performance, and scalability. We start by implementing Data Virtualization to support our Interactive Voice Response used by our Call Center 24x7 and expanding this capability to our digital channels providing the best experience to NOS customers.
Pros and Cons
  • Performance (Data Cache keeps a live "copy" of our data)
  • Common data model design for Business and IT(improve data governance)
  • Faster Implementation(time-to-market)
  • Secure (systems not exposed)
  • Resilience (support several scenarios simultaneous - online data vs cache data)
  • Studio User interface more modern
  • Messaging (Kafka, Pulsar,...) adapter out-of-the-box without the need to buy additional software
Likelihood to Recommend
Tibco Data Virtualization simplifies the architecture between the operational systems and front ends. Allow us to build a common data model for everyone(Business and IT), align the different rules, capabilities, segments, and SLA's in one tool. Event-driven is a must in this kind of environment in particular for data cache management. The product is very flexible and we can easily replicate some tools and get "lost" in the use cases scenarios we want to implement, respect the product core and clarify your needs and objectives.
Return on Investment
  • FASTER time-to-market, from several months to weeks
  • INCREASED information quality from batch to online event processing
  • LOWERED costs due to multi functional agile team delivery(every week)
Performance
8
The overall performance regarding the engine is very good but depends on the database performance and query buid experience of the developer.
Data Virtualization
We are currently using our customer live information from different data sources (on-prem and cloud) and technology to support the different support channels. The volume and number of events supported to maintain the information achieve millions of records and events every day. With a throughput of 44 service calls by second and 73 events by second.
Alternatives Considered
Problems Addressed
Some information was not updated online. Customer in some use cases needs to interact with an assistant to perform some self-care tasks.
Impact of Virtualization
Data cache capability and flexibility to interact with different IT ecosystems frameworks and data sources.
Products Replaced
Yes
Removes layers of integration between backends and frontends
Key Differentiators
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
Capability to integrate in one platform the common data model and entities spread across multiple source systems defined for a Business view.
Support Rating
9
They escalate some improvements we ask for the next version.
Usability
5
The Studio interface need some review because the layout is outdated and misses some functionality more oriented for a less sql experience developer. Sometimes the messages and responsiveness causes some strange behavior that put the developer using other sql tools and copy the final result to the studio.
Easy Tasks
  • Lineage
  • Discovery
  • Troubleshooting
Difficult Tasks
  • Scratchpad analysis
  • Editing sql code
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
No
March 31, 2022

Wonderful idea, delivered well, but with average ecosystem.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Banking Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it for unifying access to various systems distributed across the company, along with simplifying authentication to several "kerberized" data sources. Also, we have a row-level security filtering applied in TDV due to a few underlying data source systems not supporting RLS. As for business problems, we actually do not address any (yet), we address only technical ones.
Pros and Cons
  • Data throughput.
  • Multitude of connectivity options to published datasources (JDBC, ODBC, REST, SOAP...).
  • Performance of TDV Studio (its own IDE) is poor.
  • Performance of TDV repository database is rather poor for larger numbers of objects .(Note: We have approx. 9tsd objects introspected in TDV and approx. 20tsd objects generated in upper DV layers.)
  • Propagation of privileges to parent/child dependencies does not work when applying recursively on a folder. (It's a huge setback when working with large number of objects organized semantically into subfolders.)
  • Lack of command line client interface for scripting at the time of version 8.4 (I had to write my own CLI.)
  • TDV Studio does an absolutely horrible job with its own code editors when indentation is in place. Also, the editor is brutally slow and feature-poor.
  • Tracking privileges on the level of table/view columns causes occasional problems when regranting.
  • TDV's stored programs ("SQL scripts" in their own terminology) compiler leaves out many syntactic and semantic checks, making them hugely prone to run-time errors.
  • TDV Server's REST API is a very poor (in terms of features) and flawed cousin to its SOAP API (at the time of version 8.4).
Likelihood to Recommend
It's a very nice tool for accessing data in a simple way, but it's haunted by many flaws, in design, in implementation and during use of its own IDE, the TDV Studio. It's of little use when "semiproduct"/temporary calculations are necessary for calculating anything as it does not provide fast data offloading techniques (comparable to, e.g., Oracle's direct path loads, parallel inserts, multi-inserts, CTAS's or combinations thereof).
Alternatives Considered
I was not part of product evaluation team, don't know what led my company to choosing TibcoDV in particular.
Support Rating
7
The support guys really want to help. Alas, they seldom do it quickly - We experienced many occasions when the support people could not understand our (well-described, with sufficient number of screenshots and log files attached) problem cases.
Problems Addressed
We did not solve any business problems (yet), we solved technical problems with authentication, authorization and connectivity as such to several data providing systems across our organization.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
50
Different. Some are business people interested in accessing data, some are local IT vendors making use of data provided by TDV in their own IT systems, one (myself) is the former Oracle-DB-specialist-turned-TibcoDV-generalist who makes this all work.
Support Headcount Required
1
One full-time developer (me), one architect and one sysadmin. The latter two have nearly 0% allocation for the DV project.
Business Processes Supported
  • Unifying authentication and authorization.
  • Simplifying access to multiple data providing systems.
Innovative Uses
  • I myself learned fundamentals of C# and .NET Core to code around the lack of Tibco's own CLI. That sounds pretty innovative to me.
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
Implementation Phases
Yes
Implementation Issues
  • Lack of CLI for scripting.
  • Insufficient/incomplete support for mass granting/revoking of privileges.
  • Bad support for mass assignment/unassigment of RLS policies.
  • TDV Server's REST API is just a poor cousin to its SOAP API.
  • TDV Studio is a rather bad IDE for writing code.
Implementation Rating
3
No.
Difficult Tasks
  • Introspection. It has to be run several times in a row to account for errors from the previous introspections.
  • IDE and its SQL editing features in particular are horrible.
  • Lack of good CLI for scripting.
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
No
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