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HiT Software DBMoto vs Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics comparison

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Categories and Ranking

HiT Software DBMoto
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Data Replication (15th)
Pentaho Data Integration an...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
61
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

HiT Software DBMoto and Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. HiT Software DBMoto is designed for Data Replication and holds a mindshare of 3.0%, up 2.2% compared to last year.
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 1.8% mindshare, up 1.6% since last year.
Data Replication Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HiT Software DBMoto3.0%
NetApp SnapMirror7.7%
Vision Solutions Double-Take6.7%
Other82.6%
Data Replication
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics1.8%
SSIS4.0%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)3.8%
Other90.4%
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1489908 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
User-friendly, easy to manage, with good support
We use HiT Software DBMoto for migration and reporting The most valuable features are that is easy to install and it is user-friendly. Pricing is an area that needs improvement. We started to use this product a year ago. It's a stable solution. We have not experienced any issues. It's a…
Michelle Lawson - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's a good product that is user-friendly and easy to manage, and I would recommend it to others."
"The most valuable features are that is easy to install and it is user-friendly."
"DBMoto was very simple to set up and move our tables to the Oracle DB."
"Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics positively impacted my organization by organizing data that was scattered across many different databases and APIs, reducing a lot of manual work and centralizing it into one data warehouse."
"It's my understanding that the product can scale."
"I can create faster instructions than writing with SQL or code. Also, I am able to do some background control of the data process with this tool. Therefore, I use it as an ELT tool. I have a station area where I can work with all the information that I have in my production databases, then I can work with the data that I created."
"We have a huge amount of data that needs to be cleaned and made more valuable for our organization, and this Data Integration helps us to achieve that goal."
"Its drag-and-drop interface lets me and my team implement all the solutions that we need in our company very quickly. It's a very good tool for that."
"With this solution, instead of it taking a week, it was reduced to an afternoon, or about three hours."
"This solution allows us to create pipelines using a minimal amount of custom coding."
"The fact that it enables us to leverage metadata to automate data pipeline templates and reuse them is definitely one of the features that we like the best. The metadata injection is helpful because it reduces the need to create and maintain additional ETLs. If we didn't have that feature, we would have lots of duplicated ETLs that we would have to create and maintain. The data pipeline templates have definitely been helpful when looking at productivity and costs."
 

Cons

"Pricing is an area that needs improvement."
"This product would be improved with additional built-in functions for simpler date conversion, as well as for data type transformations."
"I also found, in my case, that the statistical data input wasn't working (.sas7bdat input wasn't working)."
"The product needs more plugins."
"Upgrading the bi-platform is a little pain, but the rest is easy to use and to set up."
"The price of the regular version is not reasonable and it should be lower."
"I was not happy with the Pentaho Report Designer because of the way it was set up."
"Some of the scheduling features about Lumada drive me buggy. The one issue that always drives me up the wall is when Daylight Savings Time changes. It doesn't take that into account elegantly. Every time it changes, I have to do something. It's not a big deal, but it's annoying."
"The performance could be improved. If they could have analytics perform well on large volumes, that would be a big deal for our products."
"In the community version the scheduling tool is not good, and we had to build it ourselves."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I found the price to be quite reasonable."
"Customers pay a license fee yearly."
"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."
"The price of the regular version is not reasonable and it should be lower."
"We are using the Community Edition. We have been trying to use and sell the Enterprise version, but that hasn't been possible due to the budget required for it."
"I primarily work on the Community Version, which is available to use free of charge."
"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."
"Sometimes we provide the licenses or the customer can procure their own licenses. Previously, we had an enterprise license. Currently, we are on a community license as this is adequate for our needs."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Educational Organization
8%
 

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Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise32
 

Questions from the Community

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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...
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...
 

Also Known As

DBMoto
Hitachi Lumada Data Integration, Kettle, Pentaho Data Integration
 

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Sample Customers

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