Collibra Catalog vs Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics comparison

The compared Collibra and Hitachi Vantara solutions aren't in the same category. Collibra is ranked #3 in MM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 10.7% mindshare in the category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #18 in DI , with an average rating of 7.7, and holds a 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Collibra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Hitachi Vantara users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Collibra Catalog

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Metadata Management (3rd)

Pentaho Data Integration an...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (18th)

Mindshare comparison

Collibra Catalog and Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Collibra Catalog is designed for Metadata Management and holds a mindshare of 10.7%, down 11.0% compared to last year.
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 1.7% mindshare, up 1.1% since last year.

Metadata Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Collibra Catalog	10.7%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	20.0%
Alation Data Catalog	14.9%
Other	54.4%

Metadata Management

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics	1.7%
Informatica PowerCenter	6.0%
SSIS	5.7%
Other	86.6%

Data Integration

Featured Reviews

Tejbir Singh

Engagement Manager at Fractal

Facilitates data quality monitoring and AI governance with a complete suite of tools

When I initially started with Collibra, it was just a data cataloging platform with governance workflows around it. Now they have acquired a lot of other tools, or they have merged or acquired different platforms. It is a complete suite of tools for managing data. We can monitor data quality and take actions on the profiling results obtained by running data quality checks. Collibra helps catalog data assets, monitor the health of data assets, and take necessary actions. If we find data quality issues, it also provides a medium to capture those issues and how to remediate them. The workflows allow the creation of custom workflows based on needs. The newest addition in their tool suite is AI governance, which allows cataloging all AI models currently deployed or even in the pre-production stage. It helps document model meanings and the risks involved, thus managing all risks related to AI deployments.

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Aqeel UR Rehman

BI Analyst at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Transform data efficiently with rich features but there's challenges with large datasets

Currently, I am using Pentaho Data Integration for transforming data and then loading it into different platforms. Sometimes, I use it in conjunction with AWS, particularly S3 and Redshift, to execute the copy command for data processing Pentaho Data Integration is easy to use, especially when…

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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

"Collibra Catalog's best feature is the data quality checker."

"Using lineage and Collibra Catalog has helped me overall improve the trust and transparency regarding data origin and transformation."

"Gartner identifies Collibra Catalog as the leader, which aligns with our observations."

"Collibra Catalog allows us to automate metadata management, significantly saving time, effort, and finances."

"The most valuable features of Collibra Catalog are its customizability and ease of use."

"The workflows allow the creation of custom workflows based on needs."

"The data lineage capability is valuable as it shows how different sources are connected and how data flows, which is crucial for projects like migrations. Moreover, data lineage visualization in Collibra Catalog aids our data governance initiatives."

"Collibra Catalog has significantly enhanced data governance and compliance for our team, primarily through its valuable feature of endpoint lineage enabling visual representation of the data."

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"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."

"We also haven't had to create any custom Java code. Almost everywhere it's SQL, so it's done in the pipeline and the configuration. That means you can offload the work to people who, while they are not less experienced, are less technical when it comes to logic."

"The solution has a free to use community version."

"We use Lumada’s ability to develop and deploy data pipeline templates once and reuse them. This is very important. When the entire pipeline is automated, we do not have any issues in respect to deployment of code or with code working in one environment but not working in another environment. We have saved a lot of time and effort from that perspective because it is easy to build ETL pipelines."

"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."

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

"One of the most valuable features is the ability to create many API integrations. I'm always working with advertising agents and using Facebook and Instagram to do campaigns. We use Pentaho to get the results from these campaigns and to create dashboards to analyze the results."

"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."

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Cons

"One of the very key drawbacks is that automation for access provisioning is not available. If I discover a data set or data product in the marketplace and want to access the data, this feature doesn't exist at all."

"The tool's overall functionalities need to improve since, nowadays, many tools, from a business perspective, are easy to use."

"A key area for improvement in Collibra Catalog lies in its integration capabilities, particularly with a broader range of sources."

"If it can become more user-intuitive and work on integrating with communication platforms like Slack or Teams, it would significantly help business users."

"There is an issue with Collibra Catalog's pricing model, especially for organizations with many databases, as the initial package comes with a limited number of connectors."

"In Collibra Catalog, the main area that has room for improvement is the search functionality. It should be more natural language oriented instead of searching for exact names."

"More automation and artificial intelligence involvement are necessary. Reducing required employee involvement and enhancing ease of use are vital."

"If the price is a bit reduced, that would be better."

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"I would like to see improvements made for real-time data processing."

"I would like to see improvement when it comes to integrating structured data with text data or anything that is unstructured. Sometimes we get all kinds of different files that we need to integrate into the warehouse."

"Although it is a low-code solution with a graphical interface, often the error messages that you get are of the type that a developer would be happy with. You get a big stack of red text and Java errors displayed on the screen, and less technical people can get intimidated by that. It can be a bit intimidating to get a wall of red error messages displayed. Other graphical tools that are focused at the power user level provide a much more user-friendly experience in dealing with your exceptions and guiding the user into where they've made the mistake."

"It could be better integrated with programming languages, like Python and R. Right now, if I want to run a Python code on one of my ETLs, it is a bit difficult to do. It would be great if we have some modules where we could code directly in a Python language. We don't really have a way to run Python code natively."

"There is not a data quality or MDM solution in the Pentaho DI suite."

"Parallel execution could be better in Pentaho. It's very simple but I don't think it works well."

"If you're working with a larger data set, I'm not so sure it would be the best solution. The larger things got the slower it was."

"I was not happy with the Pentaho Report Designer because of the way it was set up. There was a zone and, under it, another zone, and under that another one, and under that another one. There were a lot of levels and places inside the report, and it was a little bit complicated. You have to search all these different places using a mouse, clicking everywhere... each report is coded in a binary file... You cannot search with a text search tool..."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Collibra Catalog is fairly priced - I would rate their pricing seven out of ten."

"The product is highly priced compared to other vendors."

"I think they can bring a few more features and align better with other quality products."

"Collibra offers a per-user licensing model."

"The cost of these types of solutions are expensive. So, we really appreciate what we get for our money. Though, we don't think of the solution as a top-of-the-line solution or anything like that."

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

"You don't need the Enterprise Edition, you can go with the Community Edition. That way you can use it for free and, for free, it's a pretty good tool to use."

"We did a two or three-year deal the last time we did it. As compared to other solutions, at least so far in our experience, it has been very affordable. The licensing is by component. So, you need to make sure you only license the components that you really intend to use. I am not sure if we have relicensed after the Hitachi acquisition, but previously, multi-year renewals resulted in a good discount. I'm not sure if this is still the case. We've had the full suite for a lot of years, and there is just the initial cost. I am not aware of any additional costs."

"It does seem a bit expensive compared to the serverless product offering. Tools, such as Server Integration Services, are "almost" free with a database engine. It is comparable to products like Alteryx, which is also very expensive."

"I mostly used the open-source version. I didn't work with a license."

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

"If a company is looking for an ETL solution and wants to integrate it with their tech stack but doesn't want to spend a bunch of money, Pentaho is a good solution"

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

28%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	16
Large Enterprise	25

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Collibra Catalog?

The data lineage capability is valuable as it shows how different sources are connected and how data flows, which is crucial for projects like migrations. Moreover, data lineage visualization in C...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Collibra Catalog?

Pricing is not under my purview as I am an architect. The platform team handles the licensing aspects.

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What needs improvement with Collibra Catalog?

I have utilized the sophisticated search capability in Collibra Catalog, and it can be improved by implementing more natural language search capabilities. Currently, we need to enter the asset name...

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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...

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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, ...

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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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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Overview

Collibra Catalog is both a report and a data catalog that helps analysts and information users spend less time looking for essential clinical, financial, and operational data and more time solving critical business challenges.

Collibra

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.

Hitachi Vantara

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AXA XL, DNB, Adobe, PMI, Holland America Line, UC Davis Health, Cox Automotive

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