Azure Data Factory vs. Azure Event Hubs

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Data Factory
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Microsoft's Azure Data Factory is a service built for all data integration needs and skill levels. It is designed to allow the user to easily construct ETL and ELT processes code-free within the intuitive visual environment, or write one's own code. Visually integrate data sources using more than 80 natively built and maintenance-free connectors at no added cost. Focus on data—the serverless integration service does the rest.N/A
Azure Event Hubs
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Event Hubs is a managed, real-time data ingestion service that’s used to stream millions of events per second from any source to build dynamic data pipelines and respond to business challenges. Users can continue to process data during emergencies using the geo-disaster recovery and geo-replication features. It can be integrated with other Azure services to unlock insights. Existing Apache Kafka clients and applications can be allowed to talk to Event Hubs without any code changes, producing a…N/A
Pricing
Azure Data FactoryAzure Event Hubs
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Data FactoryAzure Event Hubs
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Azure Data FactoryAzure Event Hubs
Features
Azure Data FactoryAzure Event Hubs
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Azure Data Factory
9.0
Ratings
7% above category average
Azure Event Hubs
-
Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Azure Data Factory
8.5
Ratings
4% above category average
Azure Event Hubs
-
Ratings
Simple transformations9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Complex transformations8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Azure Data Factory
7.2
Ratings
10% below category average
Azure Event Hubs
-
Ratings
Data model creation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Metadata management7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing and debugging7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Azure Data Factory
7.5
Ratings
8% below category average
Azure Event Hubs
-
Ratings
Integration with data quality tools7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure Data FactoryAzure Event Hubs
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.0
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Support Rating
7.0
(0 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Azure Data FactoryAzure Event Hubs
Likelihood to Recommend
In a data pipeline, you will be able to add different kinds of activities for example connect from your on-premise SFTP and move CSV files to storage accounts. As well data factory has its own data flow if you are an ETL developer who experimented with maybe you have worked with SSIS, thus, you will start quickly with this new feature of the data factory.
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Large IoT data ingestion which needs to be processed as batches or data which requires certain time to process in such scenario Azure Event Hubs is working very effective.
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Pros
  • Creating ETL and ELT workflows as well as orchestrating and monitoring pipelines without writing any code.
  • Hybrid data integration is easily and agilely possible through this software.
  • It has lot of various useful components
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  • message queuing
  • data processing for notification.
  • Handling large volumes of data from multiple sources.
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Cons
  • Learning curve for pipeline creation interface.
  • Alerting isn't necessarily built in. Had to work around this to meet team needs.
  • With GIT enabled, some features can only be done via git, while some need to be done via the portal.
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  • pricing should be less
  • integration with the services should be enhanced.
  • Deduplication functionality should be there in Azure Event Hubs
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Usability
So far product has performed as expected. We were noticing some performance issues, but they were largely Synapse related. This has led to a shift from Synapse to Databricks. Overall this has delayed our analytic platform. Once databricks becomes fully operational, Azure Data Factory will be critical to our environment and future success.
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Support Rating
We have not had need to engage with Microsoft much on Azure Data Factory, but they have been responsive and helpful when needed. This being said, we have not had a major emergency or outage requiring their intervention. The score of seven is a representation that they have done well for now, but have not proved out their support for a significant issue
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Alternatives Considered
Azure Data Factory fits well into our overall systems architecture where we already utilize largely Azure services and also Microsoft based products in the on-premises environment. I think cost structure is also very competitive with Azure Data Factory. Most services provide a visual interface for designing ETL workflows, but our team found Azure Data Factory's interface more intuitive.
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All platforms are good, costing wise it is effective, scalable is being managed by Azure Event Hubs only so only configuration is being required to do, also provides the encrypted, reliable and secure solution .
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Return on Investment
  • Limiting the amount of data moving up and down from the cloud for cloud-native applications.
  • Overall simple to use interface which is actually easier for a first time ETL developer than SSIS.
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  • reducing the cost as you don't need to create a solution which is scalable
  • increasing the productivity of the solution.
  • customer satisfaction can be increased by integrating it as a solution.
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