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Datafold vs F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Datafold
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Data Quality (26th)
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Datafold and F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Datafold is designed for Data Quality and holds a mindshare of 0.2%.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, on the other hand, focuses on Application Delivery Controllers (ADC), holds 1.9% mindshare, up 0.1% since last year.
Data Quality Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Datafold0.2%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)10.0%
Qlik Talend Cloud6.8%
Other83.0%
Data Quality
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition1.9%
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)11.6%
NetScaler11.6%
Other74.9%
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

Shrinkhala Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy General Manager at Agriculture Skill Council of India
Data monitoring has transformed our secure data workflows and now drives accurate decisions
Regarding the best features Datafold offers, tracking and monitoring of our data pipeline has become easier than ever, especially in the field of agriculture where collecting vast amounts of data is critical. India, being an agrarian country, has a majority of its population dependent on agriculture, making the tracking of complex data essential. The user interface is very useful and easy to navigate, allowing newcomers to train for just a week before being able to work independently with Datafold. It simplifies the entire process of collecting data from source to sync and addresses concerns related to secret and confidential data by supporting integration effectively. Datafold has consistently proven itself with its real-time alerts and visualizations when analyzing data for insights, enabling users to check on real-time anomalies and resolve them quickly. From our perspective, the platform has improved our testing environment significantly, ensuring the quality and consistency of captured data while saving us time and effort from manual intervention. I find Datafold to be superior, given its strong positive feedback from numerous users on platforms such as Google. My team has validated that the data testing capabilities are impressive, helping users validate data quality and identify any issues or lag, thus enabling us to address root causes before they become significant problems. Datafold has proven to be a game changer for organizations, and its pricing is quite reasonable, making it easy on our budget and encouraging annual subscription renewals. Datafold has positively impacted my organization as the user interface is extremely easy to navigate, allowing my team to efficiently engage with the environment and receive real-time updates regarding data capturing, quality, migration, and flow. It alerts us to any bugs, enabling us to reduce or eliminate errors almost entirely. Datafold provides an environment for creating tests, allowing users to independently ensure data matches benchmark quality and consistency, which saves valuable manpower and time. Thanks to Datafold, our team is now focused on more critical tasks rather than debugging and monitoring data flow. Overall, the feedback regarding data handling is consistently very positive. In terms of measurable impact, when we used traditional methods, our team consumed approximately four to five man hours daily for data transfers, but with Datafold, we have reduced that to only one hour per day, which is a substantial time-saving and a game changer for our organization.
reviewer2800392 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cloud deployment has simplified traffic distribution and now supports flexible multi-zone DR
Regarding F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's improvement areas, the current dashboard is very useful, but I believe the registration process should be simplified in the virtual edition. Especially in the Azure environment, many features are not currently aligned and working with Azure. We need to make efforts to ensure it is well integrated with Azure. Currently, if we want to integrate route tables with the virtual F5 edition, we need to deploy scripting inside the virtual F5 instances, and then that script performs the virtual IP route table changes in the Azure environment. This feature should be auto-configured, and efforts are needed to ensure the virtual edition is very much aligned with the Azure environment. I am expecting this improvement in the next edition. The failover capability is also not as good as it should be. We have tested the failover functionality, and sometimes we have observed that failover fails. F5 does not successfully fail over to other instances perfectly, so that also needs to be improved. Security should also be enhanced, as in the past I have seen some security loopholes. Tightening of security should be included in the new software. These improvements should be present in near future editions.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Datafold helped significantly because it has great resources for customizing queries and defining primary keys for comparison."
"Datafold has positively impacted my organization by helping us catch data regressions before they reach production."
"Datafold has proven to be a game changer for organizations, and its pricing is quite reasonable, making it easy on our budget and encouraging annual subscription renewals."
"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization at the State of Oregon by streamlining operations, delivering significant time savings, reducing errors, and giving me a clearer overview of which features each customer has, which minimizes mistakes during operations and enhances our overall efficiency."
"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization by simplifying management, as we previously had to manage hardware boxes, and now with the virtual edition it is easy to use and reliable, and we have been working with it for the last three to four years without a single issue reported, making it a very reliable and stable product."
"I would highly recommend F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition to everyone because we have had a phenomenal experience using this device."
"Since we implemented F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, we have experienced better application performance and lower costs compared to hardware appliances, along with flexibility in deploying F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition across multiple hybrid clouds."
"The features that I like include LTM and Global Traffic Manager (GTM)."
"Since implementing F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, I have noticed fewer security incidents, improved uptime, and measurable changes in speed and customer satisfaction."
"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization in all three aspects: saving time, improving security posture, and complementing our appliances on our F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition."
"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization through features such as the Local Traffic Manager, BIG-IP DNS, Advanced Web Application Firewall, SPM, iRules, and SSL/TLS offloading, which are really helpful."
 

Cons

"I know that bugs can be related to misconfigurations, but we had issues with comparisons where executing the queries simply did nothing, and we didn't have much information about why it failed."
"Currently, I do not have specific feature requests or concerns since I have not heard of any major issues."
"The first pain point for me is that the reporting capabilities are weak."
"The customer support experience for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is actually very poor."
"A downside of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is that to capture TCP dump, in Palo Alto, we can do it within the UI itself. However, here, to capture the TCP dump, we need to log in into the CLI and be familiar with the commands."
"I have a specific issue with the network interface connector, the NIC. We're limited to a maximum of two NICs in a virtualized environment. It's a limitation of the tool."
"However, for new engineers, it can take some time to fully understand and use all the features efficiently, especially around advanced traffic policies and customization."
"I believe F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition could be improved in the area of pricing. It is a somewhat expensive solution, and the price needs to be improved based on what our customers have told us."
"BIG-IP could improve in supporting microservices, for example, in Docker and Kubernetes environments."
"I believe that F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, whether virtual or hardware, needs improvement in the logging module."
"The failover capability is also not as good as it should be. We have tested the failover functionality, and sometimes we have observed that failover fails."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is standard."
"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is an expensive solution, but it's worth the price."
"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being expensive."
"My company's customers need to make payments for the licensing charges attached to the product. It is an expensive product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
37%
Educational Organization
13%
Transportation Company
8%
Retailer
6%
Construction Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise22
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Datafold?
Currently, I do not have specific feature requests or concerns since I have not heard of any major issues. A few limited integration issues arose during our initial two years but were resolved prom...
What is your primary use case for Datafold?
My main use case for Datafold is as a data observability platform that we leverage for many of our data products, particularly because our data is very susceptible to any kind of breakdown or catas...
What advice do you have for others considering Datafold?
For others considering Datafold, I advise them to assess their own needs before committing to the platform. Datafold can be a game changer for handling vast data, data migration, and monitoring. It...
What needs improvement with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
Sometimes customers assume vulnerability points in F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition represent actual vulnerabilities, but they are false positives in that particular environment. In customer scans where m...
What advice do you have for others considering F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
I am currently working on different types of projects. I am handling SSL Orchestrator in a bank project and mainly handling load balancing in telecom projects. The value of my experience depends on...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I think it is expensive.
 

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