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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 (18th)
Pentaho Data Integration an...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (7th)
 

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 3.1%, up 1.0% compared to last year.
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 1.7% mindshare, up 1.6% since last year.
Data Replication Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HiT Software DBMoto3.1%
NetApp SnapMirror7.2%
Dell RecoverPoint5.9%
Other83.8%
Data Replication
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics1.7%
SSIS3.7%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)3.6%
Other91.0%
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."
"DBMoto was very simple to set up and move our tables to the Oracle DB."
"Before we used Pentaho, our processes were in Microsoft Excel and the updates from databases had to be done manually, but now all our routines are done automatically and we have more time to do other jobs, saving us four or five hours daily."
"Provides a good open source option."
"We have been able to expose data services through the use of CDA relying on the same database as the reporting tools, thus avoiding inconsistencies among the data shown by reports and data acquired by external systems."
"We are very productive today thanks to that piece of software integration our data and the platform serving the processed data to our users."
"Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics has had a notably positive impact on my organization, enabling us to complete several projects efficiently."
"The fact that it's a low-code solution is valuable. It's good for more junior people who may not be as experienced with programming."
"It's very simple compared to other products out there."
"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."
 

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."
"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."
"A big problem after deploying something that we do in Lumada is with Git. You get a binary file to do a code review, so if you need to do a review, you have to take pictures of the screen to show each step."
"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 have been facing some difficulties when working with large datasets. It seems that when there is a large amount of data, I experience memory errors."
"The product needs more plugins."
"In terms of improvements, while creating on a remote service, we face challenges related to limited memory, which calls for optimization."
"I think Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics needs additional plugins for the market, and for some specific tasks it is very difficult."
"I experience difficulties when handling millions of rows, as the data movement from one source to another becomes challenging."
"In the Community edition, it would be nice to have more modules that allow you to code directly within the application."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I found the price to be quite reasonable."
"Customers pay a license fee yearly."
"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"
"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."
"There was a cost analysis done and Pentaho did favorably in terms of cost."
"I believe the pricing of the solution is more affordable than the competitors"
"You need to go through the paid version to have Hitachi Lumada specialized support. However, if you are using the free version, then you will have only the community support. You will depend on the releases from Hitachi to solve some problem or questions that you have, such as bug fixes. You will need to wait for the newest versions or releases to solve these types of problems."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Educational Organization
8%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise31
 

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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