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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Fivetran

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AFivetran 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…

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    HVR (discontinued)

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AHVR’s real-time data replication solution was merged with Fivetran after the late 2021 acquisition of HVR by Fivetran. Functionality from HVR is now a part of Fivetran, and HVR is no longer available for sale.N/A
    Pricing
    FivetranHVR (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $0.01
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    Standard
    $0.01
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    Enterprise
    $0.01
    per credit
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FivetranHVR (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Fivetran
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
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    Features
    FivetranHVR (discontinued)
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Fivetran and HVR (discontinued)
    Feature
    Fivetran
    10.0
    8 Ratings
    17% above category average
    HVR (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Fivetran and HVR (discontinued)
    Feature
    Fivetran
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    8% below category average
    HVR (discontinued)
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    Simple transformations7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Fivetran and HVR (discontinued)
    Feature
    Fivetran
    6.2
    8 Ratings
    25% below category average
    HVR (discontinued)
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    Data model creation2.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Fivetran and HVR (discontinued)
    Feature
    Fivetran
    8.3
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    HVR (discontinued)
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    Integration with data quality tools8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FivetranHVR (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Skyvia
    Score9.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score8 out of 10
    Qlik Replicate
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Replicate
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FivetranHVR (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    FivetranHVR (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fivetran
    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.
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    Discontinued Products
    HVR is a real-time replication tool, if you want to centralize your database to cloud in order to provide the best services to your clients or end-users then HVR plays a vital role. multiple sources such as on-premises and cloud databases need to be combined or out together on cloud for creating a centralized warehouse then HVR is very much useful as a replication tool. HVR is a very robust tool.
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    Pros
    Fivetran
    • Easily connects to source data using delivered connectors
    • Transforms data into standard models and schemas
    • Has very good documentation to help quickly setup connectors
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    • Data replication from source to target system
    • Almost Realtime data refresh
    • CDC solution
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    Cons
    Fivetran
    • 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
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    Discontinued Products
    • Connectivity with more source such as salesforce
    • Missing Enterprise manager
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    Usability
    Fivetran
    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.
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    Performance
    Fivetran
    It runs pretty well and gets our data from point A to point cluster quickly enough. Honestly, it's not something I think about unless it breaks and that's pretty rare.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fivetran
    We never seriously considered using anything else. Our data engineers had used Fivetran extensively in previous roles so when it came time to make a decision, there wasn't much of a process. They gladly signed the contract with Fivetran pretty quickly.
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    Discontinued Products
    HVR was cost-efficient to us compare to other tools also we had a demo with our data and found out that HVR's performance is much better when replicating data from SAP to Snowflake compare to any other tool. A huge volume of data can be handled very easily. Also, the connectivity with the number of sources to pull the data is very good and they are continuously adding more sources.
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    Return on Investment
    Fivetran
    • It has been very positive in serving BI team with new source requests
    • It has been OK at scaling to match as data volumes as source data size grows
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    Discontinued Products
    • Almost Real time data availability
    • Makes Reporting easy for BI team
    • Quick development saves human efforts
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