Ab Initio Co&gt;Operating System vs Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics comparison

Ab Initio Co>Operating System vs. Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics

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Categories and Ranking

Ab Initio Co>Operating System

Ranking in Data Integration

24th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Workload Automation (19th)

Pentaho Data Integration an...

Ranking in Data Integration

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Ab Initio Co>Operating System is 1.3%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is 1.5%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics	1.5%
Ab Initio Co>Operating System	1.3%
Other	97.2%

Data Integration

Featured Reviews

AlejandroMosso

Senior Solutions Architect at IDS Comercial

Enables creation of sophisticated applications with powerful parallelism and quick, effective support

The most valuable features of Ab Initio Co>Operating System are its performance and the ability to implement parallelism. There are three kinds of parallelism in Ab Initio Co>Operating System, which allow us to create very sophisticated solutions for almost any kind of application. This parallelism is one of the strongest features. Additionally, its scalability offers a unique way to escalate applications that differs from other technologies. In terms of data processing, the emphasis is on understanding the data. Data profiling is fundamental, and Ab Initio Co>Operating System integrates tools to perform this within the GDE, as well as specialized products for this purpose. Data profiling graphs can be implemented when necessary to understand the data sources.

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Michelle Lawson

Principal Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Streamlines complex data workflows and has supported automated customer payment notifications

I haven't used Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics in a couple of years, so I don't know how it can be improved. I was pretty pleased with it and was self-taught on it, working a lot with their team at various times, but they were surprised that I was able to learn it all by myself. The documentation is not bad, and documentation is the main thing that any product can do to make themselves better because the easier it is to find examples of what you're trying to do improves the learning curve. I think it took me the longest to learn how to do the asynchronous processing and have things wait for other things to finish processing before continuing on in the workflow. I choose 8 out of 10 because the one reason that it's been rejected at T-Mobile is that everything has to go through a provisioning process and has to get approved, meaning the actual code base has to be investigated by T-Mobile before they'll allow us to use tools of that nature. For whatever reason, we just haven't been able to get that approval; I don't know if it's on Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics' side or if it's on our side. The more you can make it easier for companies to feel comfortable that your product is secure, robustly tested and bug-free, and free of any other kind of negative hacks, the more quickly it will get accepted.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Ab Initio Co>Operating System excels at providing data lineage regardless of the type of data I have."

"Co>Operating System's most valuable feature is its ability to process bulk data effectively."

"Ab Initio reaches the highest performance and is very flexible in processing huge amounts of data."

"Ab Initio Co>Operating System support is the best I have encountered."

"The graphical interface of Ab Initio Co>Operating System is very easy to understand and allows me to visualize the data flow effectively."

"Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is a great solution to accomplish big things in a very short time."

"I find the drag and drop feature in Pentaho Data Integration very useful for integration."

"We can schedule job execution in the BA Server, which is the front-end product we're using right now. That scheduling interface is nice."

"We're using the PDI and the repository function, and they give us the ability to easily generate reporting and output, and to access data. We also like the ability to schedule."

"The area where Lumada has helped us is in the commercial area. There are many extractions to compose reports about our sales team performance and production steps. Since we are using Lumada to gather data from each industry in each country. We can get data from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia at the same time. We can then concentrate and consolidate it in only one place, like our data warehouse. This improves our production performance and need for information about the industry, production data, and commercial data."

"I absolutely love Hitachi. I'm one of the forefront supporters of Hitachi for my firm. It's so easy to integrate within our environments. In terms of being able to quickly build ETL jobs, transform, and then automate them, it's really easy to integrate throughout for data analytics."

"The way it has improved our product is by giving our users the ability to do ad hoc reports, which is very important to our users. We can do predictive analysis on trends coming in for contracts, which is what our product does. The product helps users decide which way to go based on the predictive analysis done by Pentaho. Pentaho is not doing predictions, but reporting on the predictions that our product is doing. This is a big part of our product."

"Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics has positively impacted my organization by saving costs, managing large data sets, and integrating multiple sources."

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Cons

"Ab Initio Co>Operating System is a very expensive product."

"While Ab Initio Co>Operating System has positive attributes, I find that certain features can sometimes be difficult to understand."

"An awesome improvement would be big data solutions, for example, implementing some kind of business intelligence or neural networks for artificial intelligence."

"Co>Operating System would be improved with more integrations for less well-known technologies."

"Lumada could have more native connectors with other vendors, such as Google BigQuery, Microsoft OneDrive, Jira systems, and Facebook or Instagram. We would like to gather data from modern platforms using Lumada, which is a better approach. As a comparison, if you open Power BI to retrieve data, then you can get data from many vendors with cloud-native connectors, such as Azure, AWS, Google BigQuery, and Athena Redshift. Lumada should have more native connectors to help us and facilitate our job in gathering information from these new modern infrastructures and tools."

"I work with the Community Edition, therefore I do not have support. There was an issue that I could not resolve with community support."

"In terms of the flexibility to deploy in any environment, such as on-premise or in the cloud, we can do the cloud deployment only through virtual machines. We might also be able to work on different environments through Docker or Kubernetes, but we don't have an Azure app or an AWS app for easy deployment to the cloud. We can only do it through virtual machines, which is a problem, but we can manage it. We also work with Databricks because it works with Spark. We can work with clustered servers, and we can easily do the deployment in the cloud. With a right-click, we can deploy Databricks through the app on AWS or Azure cloud."

"While Pentaho Data Integration is very friendly, it is not very useful when there isn't a lot of data to handle."

"The reporting definitely needs improvement. There are a lot of general, basic features that it doesn't have. A simple feature you would expect a reporting tool to have is the ability to search the repository for a report. It doesn't even have that capability. That's been a feature that we've been asking for since the beginning and it hasn't been implemented yet."

"In terms of improvements, while creating on a remote service, we face challenges related to limited memory, which calls for optimization."

"The performance could be improved. If they could have analytics perform well on large volumes, that would be a big deal for our products."

"I would like to see more improvements with AS400 DB2."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Co>Operating System's pricing is on the expensive end since it tends to be used by big enterprises."

"I think Lumada's price is fair compared to some of the others, like BusinessObjects, which is was the other thing that I used at my previous job. BusinessObject's price was more reasonable before SAP acquired it. They jacked the price up significantly. Oracle's OBIEE tool was also prohibitively expensive."

"When we first started with it, it was much cheaper. It has gone up drastically, especially since Hitachi bought out Pentaho."

"There is a good open source option (Community Edition)."

"There was a cost analysis done and Pentaho did favorably in terms of cost."

"The solution reduced our ETL development time by a lot because a whole project used to take about a month to get done previously. After having Lumada, it took just a week. For a big company in Brazil, it saves a team at least $10,000 a month."

"I believe the pricing of the solution is more affordable than the competitors"

"I use it because it is free. I download from their page for free. I don't have to pay for a license. With other tools, I have to pay for the licenses. That is why I use Pentaho."

"For most development tasks, the Enterprise edition should be sufficient. It depends on the type of support that you require for your production environment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

32%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	29

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Ab Initio Co>Operating System?

While Ab Initio Co>Operating System has positive attributes, I find that certain features can sometimes be difficult to understand. When I have too many import feeds opened, they can conflict wi...

What is your primary use case for Ab Initio Co>Operating System?

The flexibility of data type and source integration for my IT ecosystem is excellent because Ab Initio Co>Operating System uses metadata, so it doesn't actually access the data; it takes the dat...

What advice do you have for others considering Ab Initio Co>Operating System?

I have not been involved in the security access of the platform's data security features, but I know that Ab Initio Co>Operating System is very careful because it doesn't access any customer dat...

Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?

Hi Rajneesh, yes here is the feature comparison between the community and enterprise edition : https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/brochure/leverage-open-source-benefits-with-assurance-of-hita...

What do you think can be improved with Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations?

In my opinion, the reporting side of this tool needs serious improvements. In my previous company, we worked with Hitachi Lumada Data Integration and while it does a good job for what it’s worth, ...

What do you use Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations for most frequently?

My company has used this product to transform data from databases, CSV files, and flat files. It really does a good job. We were most satisfied with the results in terms of how many people could us...

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Also Known As

Co>Operating System

Hitachi Lumada Data Integration, Kettle, Pentaho Data Integration

Overview

Ab Initio Co>Operating System offers powerful data processing capabilities, catering to big data needs with robustness and flexibility. Its architecture is designed for high performance, efficient data management, and advanced analytics, making it suitable for tech-savvy industries.

Ab Initio Co>Operating System provides an integrated platform that simplifies data processing tasks, from data validation to complex data transformations. It's engineered to handle large data volumes with efficiency, featuring an intuitive design and consistent performance. This makes it indispensable for industries requiring seamless integration and processing power, supported by tools for debugging, metadata management, and data profiling.

What are the key features of Ab Initio Co>Operating System?

Graphical Development Environment: Provides a user-friendly interface for designing data transformations.
Parallel Processing: Enables efficient handling of large datasets by leveraging parallelism.
Data Quality Management: Offers comprehensive tools for ensuring data accuracy and consistency.
Metadata Management: Facilitates easy access and management of data lineage and metadata.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Scalability: Easily adapts to increasing data and processing demands, minimizing additional costs.
Time Efficiency: Reduces development and processing time, enhancing productivity.
Cost Savings: Lowers operational expenses through efficient resource use.
Data Accuracy: Ensures reliable data quality, critical for decision-making processes.

In industries like telecommunications and finance, Ab Initio Co>Operating System is implemented to streamline data workflows and provide real-time analytics. Its role in these sectors involves batch processing, complex event processing, and integrating diverse sources, addressing the demands for agility and performance excellence.

Ab Initio

Pentaho Data Integration stands as a versatile platform designed to cater to the data integration and analytics needs of organizations, regardless of their size. This powerful solution is the go-to choice for businesses seeking to seamlessly integrate data from diverse sources, including databases, files, and applications. Pentaho Data Integration facilitates the essential tasks of cleaning and transforming data, ensuring it's primed for meaningful analysis. With a wide array of tools for data mining, machine learning, and statistical analysis, Pentaho Data Integration empowers organizations to glean valuable insights from their data. What sets Pentaho Data Integration apart is its maturity and a vibrant community of users and developers, making it a reliable and cost-effective option. Pentaho Data Integration offers a range of features, including a comprehensive ETL toolkit, data cleaning and transformation capabilities, robust data analysis tools, and seamless deployment options for data integration and analytics solutions, making it a go-to solution for organizations seeking to harness the power of their data.

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Sample Customers

A multinational transportation company

66Controls, Providential Revenue Agency of Ro Negro, NOAA Information Systems, Swiss Real Estate Institute

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