Fivetran vs WhereScape RED comparison

Fivetran and WhereScape are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Fivetran is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.8, while WhereScape is ranked #48. Fivetran holds a 2.2% mindshare in DI, compared to WhereScape’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Fivetran users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of WhereScape users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

WhereScape RED and Fivetran cater to different aspects of data management, excelling in specific areas. WhereScape RED shines in environments demanding high automation and quality assurance, whereas Fivetran is preferred for its simplicity and robust replication capabilities.

Features: WhereScape RED offers data warehouse automation with metadata-driven development, extensive documentation, and support for agile methods. Fivetran provides managed pipelines, easy integration with various data sources, and the ability to manage connectors individually.

Room for Improvement: WhereScape RED could improve its performance, scalability, change data capture support, and multi-database environment flexibility. Fivetran might enhance data pipeline observability, offer more connector options, and provide more competitive pricing and customization options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: WhereScape RED allows deployment in on-premises, public, and hybrid cloud environments, with highly praised customer service. Fivetran is primarily deployed in public and hybrid clouds, with a simpler deployment process due to its cloud-centric design, providing good customer service.

Pricing and ROI: WhereScape RED offers cost-effective licensing based on developer seats, facilitating scalability and swift ROI due to quick development cycles. Fivetran's consumption-based pricing can be expensive for high-volume usage, making it less affordable for smaller enterprises, with ROI being usage-dependent.

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Fivetran vs. WhereScape RED

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Categories and Ranking

Fivetran

Ranking in Data Integration

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Replication (3rd), Cloud Data Integration (8th)

WhereScape RED

Ranking in Data Integration

48th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 2.2%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhereScape RED is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Erik Jones

Head of BI and Analytics at HyperScience

Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI

Fivetran has room for improvement in data pipeline observability. The Fivetran logs are fairly basic, compared to, for example, the insight Fivetran gives into helping users understanding the performance of data pipelines. So I think their observability into the pipeline itself could be improved. In addition, Fivetran is in the very early stages of allowing other companies to access its metadata API, but that's something that could use improvement, and I know that they're working on right now. We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool. It would be nice if Fivetran offered both their regular offering plus the reverse ETL option as well.

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it_user584544

Manager Data Warehousing at a university with 10,001+ employees

The architecture is based on metadata and documentation is automated.

I would love to see a GUI interface for defining dependencies between build processes. RED provides a spreadsheet like interface for defining the dependencies between builds. Once the dependencies are defined, RED can produce a nice dependency diagram to give a visualization of the dependency tree. It would be easier to define complex dependency relationships if the dependency diagram were interactive. Our legacy ETL tool provided this GUI dependency definition via a drag and drop diagram which was very useful. The solution provided by WhereScape does work, and the dependency diagrams generated are helpful. It would just be nice to have the ability to define dependencies via a diagram, since dependencies relationships are much easier to understand via a diagram.

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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

"Fivetran is remarkably easy to use; I haven't encountered any other data integration tool that is as user-friendly."

"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."

"There's the general feature of the platform where it just makes it very easy to integrate different things, but I would say a specific difference is their integration of DBT,."

"The simplicity and scalability are the strongest features of Fivetran."

"It is easy for users to get accustomed to the tool due to its gentle learning curve and clear error transparency."

"The product has some seamless connectors, which are readily available."

"The product is very easy to use and very easy to configure."

"It is not like a traditional ETL, but it gives quite a lot of flexibility."

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"I found the initial setup very easy."

"WhereScape RED has improved our business's ability to generate needed reporting without requiring a large team of developers to manually code all of the necessary plumbing."

"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."

"I like the data vault implementations."

"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."

"WhereScape's deployment package is a fantastic feature. The application allows for selecting specific objects that you would like to deploy from one environment to another rather than deploying the entire database."

"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."

"This is a fantastically robust DW tool that will make you at least 10 times faster in producing a DW."

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Cons

"The biggest area for improvement is in customization, particularly in how Fivetran socializes its tools."

"The interface needs to be more user-friendly."

"Fivetran is very expensive for data sources with a lot of rows, such as email data. I would like to see cheaper pricing for data sources like that."

"Fivetran could improve in the area of customization, especially in how they socialize their tools."

"Fivetran would be improved by adding the ability to integrate the data from third-party APIs."

"Fivetran should add more connectors because its competitors, like Airbyte, have more connectors."

"We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool."

"Some of the pain points we're looking at are trying to integrate some of the items in the Microsoft stack, so SharePoint and Excel, and then some of the newer Azure services."

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"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."

"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."

"Technical support isn't the best."

"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."

"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."

"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."

"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."

"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is reasonably expensive"

"The licensing costs are extremely high for the usage of somebody who has one GB or two GB of usage per day for real-time traffic. There are many other players in the market which are similarly priced or competitively priced. On average per month, it used to come around 12,000-15,000 USD, which is very high."

"I would say they're a little bit on the expensive side, and their contract process is not particularly good, but there is a lot of potential flexibility."

"When you have a lot of workflows and complex use cases, pricing goes down as you use it more."

"I can't give exact amounts because that's based on usage, but it's more expensive than some of its competitors."

"Fivetran is very expensive, and its database-driven pricing model is outdated."

"The pricing model is okay and mid to large companies will not have an issue with it."

"I rate the pricing a six out of ten."

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"ROI is at least 10 times."

"Speed to market of a warehouse solution at a relatively inexpensive price point."

"Factor in the price of specialized consulting who know this product. They're hard to find and expensive."

"Our company purchased a corporate unlimited license."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

27%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

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Overview

Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, is trusted by companies like OpenAI, LVMH, Pfizer, Verizon and Spotify to centralize data from SaaS applications, databases, files, and other sources into cloud destinations, including data lakes. With high-performance pipelines, seamless interoperability, and enterprise-grade security, Fivetran empowers organizations to modernize their data infrastructure, power analytics and AI, ensure compliance, and achieve transformative business outcomes. Learn more at Fivetran.com

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WhereScape is data warehouse software that automates the Data Warehouse lifecycle. From implementation to maintenance, WhereScape will ensure your data warehouse projects are completed up to 5x faster than manual coding.

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