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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Matillion

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMatillion is a data pipeline platform used to build and manage pipelines. Matillion empowers data teams with no-code and AI capabilities to be more productive, integrating data wherever it lives and delivering data that’s ready for AI and analytics.

    $2.50

    Pay as you go per user

    SSIS

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration solution.N/A
    Pricing
    MatillionSSIS
    Editions & Modules
    Developer: For Individuals
    $2.50/credit
    Pay as you go per user
    Basic
    $1000
    per month 500 prepaid credits (additional credits: $2.18/credit)
    Advanced
    $2000
    per month 750 prepaid credits (additional credits: $2.73/credit)
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MatillionSSIS
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBilled directly via cloud marketplace on an hourly basis, with annual subscriptions available depending on the customer's cloud data warehouse provider.—
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    Community Pulse
    MatillionSSIS
    Considered Both Products
    Matillion
    Chose Matillion
    The only other ETL tool I've used was SSIS. At first I thought Matillion seemed "kiddish" after using the polished Microsoft tool but now I think Matillion is easier and can do much more as it has so many built-in connectors etc. We selected Matillion at our job because of …
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    Chose Matillion
    We selected Matillion primarily because of it's ability to connect to numerous data sources and easily create transformation jobs. While Fivetran does a better job managing and examining deltas, it is not easy to use and is very non user friendly. SSIS was not a good fit for …
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    Chose Matillion
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is built around the Microsoft ecosystem; we needed something that was either "ecosystem-agnostic" or focused on AWS, which Matillion is. SSIS has very limited ability to parameterize jobs/packages compared to Matillion, reducing the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Matillion has more security and better version control features. The support of amazing with new connectors introduced every day.
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    The Matillion selection was not my decision. But I think it's a good enough choice. It is especially valuable that the team can learn Matillion easily and that the project can be understood by the entire team with the visual environment instead of complex ETLs.
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Matillion is much easier to set up and easier to work for the team. Offers a lot more connections which are easier to set up. Environment variables make it easy to set up once and job creation is easy. We use Metadata tables to just loop through the list of tables that need to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Matillion was chosen by Schibsted due to the seamless integration with Snowflake. The ease of use and fast workflow have made it an essential tool in our setup, and with the option to integrate nearly every data source there is, plus the ease of use, it really gives a lot of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    It's browser-based and well suited for snowflake and redshift DWH. Matillion is Python-scripting friendly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Matillion is cloud-native, therefore it doesn't need virtual machines to set up. It is easier to use compared with some of them. It always does query pushdown, while other ones don't'. It is integrated with Snowflake, while other ETLs need to use workarounds in order to perform …
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Similar simple GUI but Matillion's is much cleaner, easier to manage and debug, and easier to connect to cloud databases. Matillion is also much faster.
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Matillion ease of use and feature set along with integration capabilities and built in integrations are definitely a step ahead than the other tools and it provides the ability for us ti integrate with refshift, Snowflake and on premise data sources and hence becomes a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    1. Cloud Solution
    2. Easy to create and manage ELT pipelines.
    3. Works great with redshift databases.
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Matillion seemed more robust than Fivetran and was easier to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Matillion is much easier to use than the other tools that I've worked with in the past and has a more complete forward-thinking cloud strategy. Legacy ETL tools struggle to make use of modern cloud data warehouse patterns.
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Matillion works better in the AWS context
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Being a fairly new player in the market, Matillion is coming up against some well-established names such as Pentaho and Talend. The primary benefit for our use case was the fact that Matillion is built specifically for Amazon Redshift. While Pentaho and Talend are more mature …
    Incentivized
    Chose Matillion
    Overall from an ease of use and set up standpoint, it stacks up better than most of the other tools I've used. However, Matillion doesn't quite expand and scale up as well as the other solutions.
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    Microsoft
    Chose SSIS
    When looking to evaluate different options, we looked first to the experience and software we had in-house that would accomplish the job. When assessing alternatives outside we were looking for the tool that would offer the most flexibility.

    SSIS provided the most robust set of …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    82%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    MatillionSSIS
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Matillion and SQL Server Integration Services
    Feature
    Matillion
    8.5
    131 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services
    7.5
    53 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources8.9130 Ratings8.853 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL8.190 Ratings6.240 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Matillion and SQL Server Integration Services
    Feature
    Matillion
    7.0
    132 Ratings
    15% below category average
    SQL Server Integration Services
    8.1
    53 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Simple transformations7.6132 Ratings8.553 Ratings
    Complex transformations6.5131 Ratings7.752 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Matillion and SQL Server Integration Services
    Feature
    Matillion
    8.3
    124 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services
    7.4
    51 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Data model creation9.133 Ratings8.627 Ratings
    Metadata management9.140 Ratings7.133 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow8.4116 Ratings8.242 Ratings
    Collaboration7.5116 Ratings7.338 Ratings
    Testing and debugging7.7117 Ratings6.148 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Matillion and SQL Server Integration Services
    Feature
    Matillion
    8.2
    23 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services
    6.9
    41 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools8.222 Ratings7.436 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools8.220 Ratings6.436 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    MatillionSSIS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (133 ratings)
    8.0
    (53 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (132 ratings)
    9.3
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.5
    (126 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MatillionSSIS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Matillion
    Great: Need to query simpler APIs, or utilize well known services such as GSheets etc.? Matillion has got some of the best and easiest to use connectors out there. Not so great: Do you need have a competent CI/CD flow that you will be able to update / compare from Matillion as well as other sources at the same time? Good luck, you will need to be extra careful, as you might have to have a deeper dive into your servers Terminal each time you have a git conflict.
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    Microsoft
    Ideal if the company is already a Microsoft shop, so chances are that it is free with SQL Server. Also, good for moving data between on premise systems. Not ideal for moving data to the cloud. No functionality out of the box to work with REST APIs. Stable product but definitely not the future
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    Pros
    Matillion
    • The user interface of your data pipelines makes it easier for people who aren’t as techy as data engineers to observe what's going on.
    • Customer support is quick, not always as efficient as you would want it to be, but still.
    • Nice documentation available.
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    Microsoft
    • Standard ETL use cases for daily loads
    • Loading incoming data from Vendors which is placed on FTP and adding them to the SQL Warehouse
    • Creating outgoing data files and writing them to Vendor FTPs
    • Easy Active Directory integration for seamless connections to SQL Server
    • CI/CD by hosting the code on visualstudio.com
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    Cons
    Matillion
    • Matillion is brilliant at importing data -- it would be amazing to have more ways to export data, from emailed exports to API pushes.
    • Any Python that takes more than a few lines of code requires an external server to run it. It would be great to have more integration (perhaps in a connected virtual environment) to easily integrate customized code.
    • Troubleshooting server logs requires quite a bit of technical expertise. More human readable detailed error handling would be greatly appreciated.
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    Microsoft
    • Connection managers for online data sources can be tricky to configure.
    • Performance tuning is an art form and trialing different data flow task options can be cumbersome. SSIS can do a better job of providing performance data including historical for monitoring.
    • Mapping destination using OLE DB command is difficult as destination columns are unnamed.
    • Excel or flat file connections are limited by version and type.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Matillion
    With the current experience of Matillion, we are likely to renew with the current feature option but will also look for improvement in various areas including scalability and dependability. 1. Connectors: It offers various connectors option but isn't full proof which we will be looking forward as we grow. 2. Scalability: As usage increase, we want Matillion system to be more stable.
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    Microsoft
    Some features should be revised or improved, some tools (using it with Visual Studio) of the toolbox should be less schematic and somewhat more flexible. Using for example, the CSV data import is still very old-fashioned and if the data format changes it requires a bit of manual labor to accept the new data structure
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    Usability
    Matillion
    We are able to bring on new resources and teach them how to use Matillion without having to invest a significant amount of time. We prefer looking for resources with any type of ETL skill-set and feel that they can learn Matillion without problem. In addition, the prebuilt objects cover more than 95% of our use cases and we do not have to build much from scratch.
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    Microsoft
    SSIS is a great tool for most ETL needs. It has the 90% (or more) use cases covered and even in many of the use cases where it is not ideal SSIS can be extended via a .NET language to do the job well in a supportable way for almost any performance workload.
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    Performance
    Matillion
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    SQL Server Integration Services performance is dependent directly upon the resources provided to the system. In our environment, we allocated 6 nodes of 4 CPUs, 64GB each, running in parallel. Unfortunately, we had to ramp-up to such a robust environment to get the performance to where we needed it. Most of the reports are completed in a reasonable timeframe. However, in the case of slow running reports, it is often difficult if not impossible to cancel the report without killing the report instance or stopping the service.
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    Support Rating
    Matillion
    Overall, I've found Matillion to be responsive and considerate. I feel like they value us as a customer even when I know they have customers who spend more on the product than we do. That speaks to a motive higher than money. They want to make a good product and a good experience for their customers. If I have any complaint, it's that support sometimes feels community-oriented. It isn't always immediately clear to me that my support requests are going to a support engineer and not to the community at large. Usually, though, after a bit of conversation, it's clear that Matillion is watching and responding. And responses are generally quick in coming.
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    Microsoft
    The support, when necessary, is excellent. But beyond that, it is very rarely necessary because the user community is so large, vibrant and knowledgable, a simple Google query or forum question can answer almost everything you want to know. You can also get prewritten script tasks with a variety of functionality that saves a lot of time.
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    Implementation Rating
    Matillion
    We were able to control on access and built various enviroment for implementation
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    Microsoft
    The implementation may be different in each case, it is important to properly analyze all the existing infrastructure to understand the kind of work needed, the type of software used and the compatibility between these, the features that you want to exploit, to understand what is possible and which ones require integration with third-party tools
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    Alternatives Considered
    Matillion
    Fivetran offers a managed service and pre-configured schemas/models for data loading, which means much less administrative work for initial setup and ongoing maintenance. But it comes at a much higher price tag. So, knowing where your sweet spot is in the build vs. buy spectrum is essential to deciding which tool fits better. For the transformation part, dbt is purely (SQL-) code-based. So, it is mainly whether your developers prefer a GUI or code-based approach.
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    Microsoft
    I had nothing to do with the choice or install. I assume it was made because it's easy to integrate with our SQL Server environment and free. I'm not sure of any other enterprise level solution that would solve this problem, but I would likely have approached it with traditional scripting. Comparably free, but my own familiarity with trad scripts would be my final deciding factor. Perhaps with some further training on SSIS I would have a different answer.
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    Scalability
    Matillion
    We're using Matillion on EC2 instances, and we have about 20 projects for our clients in the same instance. Sometimes, we're struggling to manage schedules for all projects because thread management is not visible, and we can't see the process at the instance level.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Matillion
    • Matillion has been the backbone of my company's analytical functionalities for 10+ years, so it has a good ROI.
    • The price is ok for what our company built with it, but it starts to be less competitive if the tool is not used at its fullest.
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    Microsoft
    • Data integrity across various products allows unify certain processes inside the organization and save funds by reducing human labour factor.
    • Automated data unification allows us plan our inputs better and reduce over-warehousing by overbuying
    • The employee number, responsible for data management was reduced from 4 to 1 person
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    ScreenShots

    Matillion Screenshots

    Screenshot of Matillion's GUI, used to orchestrate jobs with control data flow functionality, automating the ETL process.Screenshot of where structured and semi-structured data can be prepared to create clean data sets that can be used with any BI/reporting/visualization tool of choice. Matillion reads and combines data across a target warehouse external storage, such as S3 or Blob.Screenshot of Matillion's self-validating components, sample and row counts. If a job does fail, the warehouse queue services available with Matillion can be used get an alert to a connected email or Slack account.Screenshot of the SQL component used to run custom scripts from within Matillion. With hundreds of pre-built connectors out of the box, Matillion can handle complex transformation needs.