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Score8.4 out of 10

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Pros

Intuitive Accessibility Permissions: Users have found the accessibility permissions within Fivetran to be intuitive, allowing them to easily secure and identify the allowed managers for data administration. This feature has been praised by multiple reviewers.

High Scalability of Data Replication Operations: The high scalability of data replication operations in Fivetran has received praise from users. It is ideal for creating backups of information in both cloud and non-cloud environments, ensuring source systems are well-protected. Several reviewers have highlighted this advantage.

Quick and Effective Customer Support: The customer support representative provided quick solutions to fix issues with the platform, as acknowledged by a user. Despite the issues being configuration errors on their part, the positive experience with Fivetran's support team was appreciated.

Fivetran Reviews

1 Review
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)

Gets data from Point A to Point B

Rating: 7 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to sync a MySQL instance to a redshift cluster so we can run analytics against a non-prod environment.

Pros

  • Quick replication of data with minimal lag.
  • Automated reporting if data is out of date.
  • The customer support team is relatively good.

Cons

  • A full schema refresh takes us two-three days and knocks us offline from monitoring up-to-date business KPIs, running updated analyses, etc. This is likely due to us having massive amounts of data (from a count(1) perspective, not size of tables perspective).
  • There's little to no progress estimate on the front end UI to see how long this refresh might take and you need to enable back end logging in Amazon to see where it's at in the sync process and derive rough estimates of completion time.

Likelihood to Recommend

Fivetran works well when you have a lot of data in different places and want to get it all in one spot. I don't think it's as necessary if you have one cluster that needs to be replicated against and the data could wait a day. In this instance, there are other tools.
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Scott Laronge
Head of Data Science in Information Technology at Couchsurfing International (Internet, 11-50 employees)
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