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Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) vs ibi Open Data Hub for Mainframe comparison

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Categories and Ranking

ibi Open Data Hub for Mainf...
Ranking in Data Integration
64th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
Ranking in Data Integration
12th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of ibi Open Data Hub for Mainframe is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is 2.6%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)2.6%
ibi Open Data Hub for Mainframe0.7%
Other96.7%
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

it_user3876 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Provides High Reliability and Data Security
• Data in the datahub refreshes nightly. As the data only refreshes once every day, it is necessary to have to wait for any changes to thesource systems to become available.The daily refresh can be extremely useful for reconciling data. • DataHub only displays details of current members of the Organization. So it has much limited data available for generation of dynamic reports. • DataHub is volatile. The records are completely re-loaded each day. It puts burden on the system. • There are very few summary tables available due to storage of data in a detailed format. • The detailed information is not stored in the DataHub. It is stored in the relevant source system. Only commonly required data is stored within the DataHub.
Hafiz Mannan - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Services – Services Partner at 3 As Technologies
Facilitates complex data integration with ease and flexibility
It would be great if ODI could link the designer, mapping, and workflows in a more simplified manner, maybe in one combined interface. It would be excellent not to have to go into different areas to perform different activities but rather have a user-defined interface where we can configure a job, run it, monitor it, link packages, and link subprocesses all in one frame instead of having the designer separately, mapping separately, and monitoring and session management separately. With respect to data quality challenges, it would be great to give an option to fix data quality issues based on AI. Integrating AI with ODI that provides recommendations on how to fix those data quality issues after analyzing and profiling business data would be excellent. One of the main disadvantages of the Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is that it sometimes takes a lot of resources when handling multiple jobs. The scalability and the ability to handle multiple workloads of several parallel ETL jobs could use improvement, and certain parallel threads should be added along with the ability to configure multiple jobs from the same data directory structure.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"All staff members and users can request an account which can be accessed from all PCs on the company’s network."
"ODI is a very accessible tool, especially since the mapping functionality has been added."
"Go ahead it is a very good, stable and reliable product."
"It effectively manages errors through its logging and exception-handling capabilities."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is that it integrates well with almost all technologies currently being used in my company."
"The user interface for the data integrator tool is probably the most valuable piece."
"ODI significantly improves data integration and management by allowing customization of data types from various sources like SQL Server databases."
"ODI is very friendly to those who have been traditionally writing a scale PL/SQL."
"The most valuable features of ODI are the relatively comprehensive ELT features (i.e. execution of data transformation and validation processes), with scheduling."
 

Cons

"DataHub is volatile; the records are completely re-loaded each day, which puts a burden on the system."
"It lacks a suite of tools suitable for fully processing data and moving it into decision support warehouses."
"It's quite an expensive solution. We'd like it if they could adjust the pricing according to the region they are operating in."
"It used to crash with large datasets."
"There are certain things where it can be improved. Initial solution setup seems a bit complex at the start, it should be improved because it becomes bit tough for a novice to get started on this. Sometimes error description is not helpful to understand the problem it gives some generic type of errors which are at times not that helpful to understand the underlying root cause of the issue."
"When developing on huge internal repositories, the performance is often quite poor."
"I would like more different tools of transformation. In the current version I have only worked with lookup and filter, and sometimes it is not good enough for what I use it for."
"An area for improvement in Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is real-time integration. Currently, my company has a workaround to implement real-time integration, an area on which Oracle must focus more. Real-time integration should be easier in Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). Another area for improvement in Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is integration with more publishers and subscribers rather than just database integrations."
"A bit unstable and buggy in the 12.1.2 release, but most of it is fixed in 12.1.3, so I would definitely recommend to jump to that version."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Per user, it is $900 USD per year, though they will give some discount. However, even a 60% to 70% of discount for each won't help us much. On top of that, there is the perpetual license you must pay at the outset."
"The solution is expensive because of the model they use. The cost is for the license and for support."
"ODI comes included when buying the cloud version of the Oracle database license."
"I rate the platform pricing as five out of ten."
"The license can be costly, but in certain complex cases, ODI proves to be the optimal solution."
"There is a standard license to use the solution but there are other costs in addition, such as hardware and operating system."
"We found that the cost compared to other integration tools is a little high, but the solution works great."
"Being an ODI developer, I never had to pay for this product. I know that the pricing/licensing is not really low, but the product is really good."
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Database Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Mar 31, 2014
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
20%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Performing Arts
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise44
 

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Also Known As

iWay Data Hub, Data Hub, Information Builders Data Hub
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