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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

SnapLogic and IBM InfoSphere DataStage are competing in the data integration category, with SnapLogic leading in flexibility and integration capabilities.

Features: SnapLogic provides seamless cloud integration, real-time data processing, and an intuitive platform supporting various connectors. IBM InfoSphere DataStage offers parallel processing, support for complex transformations, and strong governance features.

Room for Improvement: SnapLogic could enhance its data processing capabilities for large-scale operations. It may also improve its governance features and offer more advanced transformation capabilities. IBM InfoSphere DataStage could benefit from a smoother deployment process, more flexibility in integration options, and more user-friendly interfaces.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SnapLogic offers quick deployment with its cloud model and responsive support. IBM InfoSphere DataStage, although more complex to deploy, benefits from IBM’s enterprise-level support and resources.

Pricing and ROI: SnapLogic usually incurs lower setup costs with faster ROI due to quicker implementation. IBM InfoSphere DataStage has a higher initial investment but provides long-term cost-effectiveness for large-scale needs.

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IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. SnapLogic

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

5.9

IBM InfoSphere DataStage increases ROI with improved performance, reduced maintenance, efficient management, and ongoing developer support despite some manual needs.

Sentiment score

8.1

SnapLogic provides efficient cloud integration, enhancing workflow and automation, offering significant cost and time savings over legacy tools.

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SnapLogic is really helpful and processes in very little time, so it doesn't take much time compared to any legacy tool.

Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.

SnapLogic has helped automate manual data transfers significantly and improved our workflow efficiency, reducing integration development timelines considerably, which reflects a good ROI.

Global Head - DevOps and AIOps Startegist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It is not that fewer employees were needed, but time was definitely saved, and our process was optimized with the help of SnapLogic.

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Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.2

IBM InfoSphere DataStage support is generally well-rated for availability and responsiveness, but some report regional and efficiency issues.

Sentiment score

6.9

SnapLogic customer service is praised for responsiveness and helpfulness, though support staff knowledge improvements are needed.

We also have the flexibility to submit a feature request to be included as part of the wishlist, potentially becoming a product feature in subsequent releases.

Swetha S

Sr Product Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I rate their support as nine on a scale from one to ten.

Senior Data Warehouse Developer at itcinfotech

IBM tech support has allocated dedicated resources, making it satisfactory.

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Senior Officer at State Bank of India

The technical support from SnapLogic is excellent, and I would give it a complete ten.

Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Some SMEs are allotted for the organization, so in case of any issue, we have their email IDs to contact them for support, including SMEs and community.

Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.

Customer support scales well; as pipeline volume grows, we have been able to add more integrations and users without performance degradation.

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Global Head - DevOps and AIOps Startegist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

IBM InfoSphere DataStage scales well but may require hardware adjustments under heavy loads, with ratings between 7-9.

Sentiment score

7.4

SnapLogic scales flexibly for all business sizes, with ease of configuration but minor performance concerns in specific cases.

If the job provided suggestions about running this kind of parallel processing and how many virtual nodes are required, it would help.

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Senior Data Warehouse Developer at itcinfotech

I rate the scalability of SnapLogic as eight out of ten.

Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

SnapLogic's scalability is huge.

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Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

IBM InfoSphere DataStage is stable, especially on Linux, but experiences some instability on Windows due to memory issues.

Sentiment score

7.4

SnapLogic is praised for its 99% uptime and reliability, with minimal issues and manageable learning curve despite less support.

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I would rate the stability of SnapLogic as nearly ten out of ten.

Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

But recently, in a year, I haven't found many performance issues in SnapLogic.

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Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.

Room For Improvement

IBM InfoSphere DataStage requires enhanced interfaces, modern integration, better support, user-friendliness, and adaptability with improved performance and cloud capabilities.

SnapLogic users seek improvements in dashboards, API management, support, integration, AI functionality, connectors, scheduling, and data handling.

If the job itself gave some guidance, such as running this parallel processing with this many nodes, it would help; I think that is missing.

Senior Data Warehouse Developer at itcinfotech

I wonder if it supports other areas, such as cloud environments with open source support, or EdgeShift.

Swetha S

Sr Product Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution needs improvement in connectivity with big data technologies such as Spark.

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Senior Officer at State Bank of India

We require a data pipeline that can be read without latency and without any delay.

Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If the AI capabilities and integrations were more intuitive and easy to learn for new users, it would be greatly beneficial.

Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

They can improve more visuals, with graphical representations, such as how many things can be added, how many users can be added or dropped, and how the back-end nodes can be graphically shown in a better way.

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Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.

Setup Cost

IBM InfoSphere DataStage pricing varies widely and can be costly, particularly for small businesses, despite being cheaper than competitors.

SnapLogic offers higher initial costs but provides value for complex integrations compared to MuleSoft and Apigee.

Pricing for IBM InfoSphere DataStage is moderate and not much expensive.

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Senior Officer at State Bank of India

I would say the pricing is on the higher side, but it aligns with the capabilities offered for mid- to large integrations.

Global Head - DevOps and AIOps Startegist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

There would be only one point of improvement if the price could be lower.

MusaMongwe

Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees

SnapLogic is positioned at around seven or eight out of ten in terms of pricing.

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Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Valuable Features

IBM InfoSphere DataStage offers robust ETL capabilities, scalability, excellent integration, user-friendly design, and strong performance for large data volumes.

SnapLogic offers a user-friendly interface, enabling seamless data integration, workflow automation, and rapid deployment for minimal coding expertise.

It is straightforward from a design and development perspective, and also for deployment.

Swetha S

Sr Product Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

As we are a financial organization, security is our main concern, so we prefer enterprise tools.

Senior Officer at State Bank of India

I have leveraged IBM InfoSphere DataStage's integration with IBM's Information Server suite, and it is indeed beneficial.

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Senior Data Warehouse Developer at itcinfotech

I also like the whole child-parent pipeline feature; it allows me to break up a process into smaller pieces and then have one big pipeline that controls these smaller pipelines.

MusaMongwe

Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees

The drag-and-drop builder and pre-built snaps have helped our team through a very low-code approach, making it easier for us to develop fast pipelines and be more agile compared to the heavier integration platforms we used before.

Global Head - DevOps and AIOps Startegist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I find SnapLogic to be user-friendly, especially for beginners with limited experience in data engineering or ETL.

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Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Categories and Ranking

IBM InfoSphere DataStage

Ranking in Data Integration

5th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SnapLogic

Ranking in Data Integration

25th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (18th), API Management (24th), Cloud Data Integration (13th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of IBM InfoSphere DataStage is 2.0%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SnapLogic is 1.1%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM InfoSphere DataStage	2.0%
SnapLogic	1.1%
Other	96.9%

Data Integration

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Has required complex workarounds for scripts and struggles with unstructured data processing

Senior Data Warehouse Developer at itcinfotech

There is no issue with IBM InfoSphere DataStage's graphical interface for designing data flows, but I will provide feedback that we are gathering the source from the Oracle database mainly, as well as from some spreadsheets. With respect to the Oracle DB Connector, if you write any PL/SQL or SQL with the connectors, there aren't many options, such as executing procedures in the PL/SQL, executing functions, or executing packages. The Oracle connector doesn't have many features and needs improvement. Nowadays many people are writing programs in Python or in PL/SQL with respect to Oracle, so especially in IBM InfoSphere DataStage, there are no features to call programs directly instead of calling them as a script. What I am facing, especially with parallel processing, is that a developer and admin have to sit together. They have to run the job multiple times with different combinations of parallel processing to get the best performance. Instead of that, if the job itself gave some guidance, such as running this parallel processing with this many nodes, it would help; I think that is missing. An additional feature I would want to see in the next release is the ability to work on logs, especially machine logs or artificial logs, to pull semi-structured or unstructured data without having to write extensive code in Python and integrate it. If IBM InfoSphere DataStage provided some feature for this, it would help.

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Migration projects have accelerated data processing and now require better latency and support

Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The latency is the biggest issue across iPaaS. That is the important part. I have worked not only with SnapLogic, but also with MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, and Jitterbit. They are all fine, but they have different kinds of functionality. They all have similar kinds of problems in different domains. But as I mentioned, SnapLogic has a little bit of an edge because of its functionality and inbuilt functions for Fintech, as compared to the others. This I can say firmly. They need to assess themselves. In this day and age, as I mentioned earlier, terabytes of data need to be read and then have a quick turnaround for downstream systems, especially for GenAI or any LLMs. Then they can definitely improve themselves because right now, most things, in fact, the GenAI, ChatGPT, Cloud, Anthropic, and so many others, require data quality with perfection and more precision. But for all of that, we require a data pipeline that can be read without latency and without any delay, for any reason. So if they can improvise that over the cloud, that would be really fantastic and a really good achievement for them. Not only for them, but for the customer as well. Then no matter what, people cannot leave SnapLogic. They need to be there with the snaps. I don't know much about that. I haven't referred to the documentation that much. But support is something that is pretty obviously required, rather than just providing videos. Technical support is required. The roadmap also needs to be very clearly mentioned and specified. Be specific in which domain they are going to do what, if they are coming out with that roadmap. Otherwise, overall, if they are going to improve their entire system as I mentioned earlier, for the reusability concept and the data pipeline concept, then they will definitely do some magic in the future. From the HR point of view, or for HR tech, improvement is required. A couple of connectors are not working with all the relevant APIs, and there is always a restriction in terms of fetching the data. So that is why I chose six. From the Fintech point of view, if you are asking on a scale of one to 10, then I would give it an eight out of 10. It is a huge one. There is always a margin for improvement, so that is why I chose eight. If you talk about HR, sales, or any other domain, there is a significant amount of improvement required.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

27%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	26

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	12

Questions from the Community

Would you upgrade to more premium versions of IBM InfoSphere DataStage?

My company currently uses the free version of the product, and we are definitely switching to a paid one. We needed a tool that can help us not only integrate our data but use it effectively. For ...

Is IBM InfoSphere DataStage more difficult to use compared to other tools in the field?

I think the tool may cause some difficulties if you have not used other data integration solutions before. I have worked at companies that used different tools for data integration, and they work ...

Do you rely on IBM Cloud Paks for your data? Have you utilized this product, or do you use IBM InfoSphere DataStage without it?

IBM Cloud Paks makes a big difference in your data integration. My company has been using it alongside IBM InfoSphere DataStage and while the main product is good on its own, this one truly expands...

What do you like most about SnapLogic?

Despite having no prior experience in SnapLogic, we managed to build, test, and prepare it for release in just three hours, handling heavy data efficiently.

What needs improvement with SnapLogic?

Some advanced features lack detailed documentation, and debugging complex pipelines could be more intuitive. We have faced a few issues with pipeline throttling, but SnapLogic support was responsiv...

What is your primary use case for SnapLogic?

Our main use case for SnapLogic is building integration pipelines across SaaS applications, databases, and internal systems to automate the data flows. A specific example of how we have used SnapLo...

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Overview

IBM InfoSphere DataStage is a high-quality data integration tool that aims to design, develop, and run jobs that move and transform data for organizations of different sizes. The product works by integrating data across multiple systems through a high-performance parallel framework. It supports extended metadata management, enterprise connectivity, and integration of all types of data.

The solution is the data integration component of IBM InfoSphere Information Server, providing a graphical framework for moving data from source systems to target systems. IBM InfoSphere DataStage can deliver data to data warehouses, data marts, operational data sources, and other enterprise applications. The tool works with various types of patterns - extract, transform and load (ETL), and extract, load, and transform (ELT). The scalability of the platform is achieved by using parallel processing and enterprise connectivity.

The solution has various versions, catering to different types of companies, which include the Server Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the MVS Edition. Depending on which version a company has bought, different goals can be achieved. They include the following:

Designing data flows to extract information from multiple sources, transform the data, and deliver it to target databases or applications.
Delivery of relevant and accurate data through direct connections to enterprise applications.
Reduction of development time and improvement of consistency through prebuilt functions.
Utilization of InfoSphere Information Server tools for accelerating the project delivery cycle.

IBM InfoSphere DataStage can be deployed in various ways, including:

As a service: The tool can be accessed from a subscription model, where its capabilities are a part of IBM DataStage on IBM Cloud Park for Data as a Service. This option offers full management on IBM Cloud.
On premises or in any cloud: The two editions - IBM DataStage Enterprise and IBM DataStage Enterprise Plus - can run workloads on premises or in any cloud when added to IBM DataStage on IBM Cloud Pak for Data as a Service.
On premises: The basic jobs of the tool can be run on premises using IBM DataStage.

IBM InfoSphere DataStage Features

The tool has various features through which users can integrate and utilize their data effectively. The components of IBM InfoSphere DataStage include:

AI services: The tool offers services such as data science, event messaging, data warehousing, and data virtualization. It accelerates processes through artificial intelligence (AI) and offers a connection with IBM Cloud Paks - the cloud-native insight platform of the solution.
Parallel engine: Through this feature, ETL performance can be optimized to process data at scale. This is achieved through parallel engine and load balancing, which maximizes throughput.
Metadata support: This feature of the product uses the IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog to protect companies' sensitive data and monitor who can access it and at what levels.
Automated delivery pipelines: IBM InfoSphere DataStage reduces costs by automating continuous integration and delivery of pipelines.
Prebuilt connectors: The feature for prebuilt connectivity and stages allows users to move data between multiple cloud sources and data warehouses, including IBM native products.
IBM DataStage Flow Designer: This feature offers assistance through machine learning design. The product offers its clients a user-friendly interface which facilitates the work process.
IBM InfoSphere QualityStage: The tool provides a feature that automatically resolves data quality issues and increases the reliability of the delivered data.
Automated failure detection: Through this feature, companies can reduce infrastructure management efforts, relying on the automated detection that the tool offers.
Distributed data processing: Cloud runtimes can be executed remotely through this feature while maintaining its sovereignty and decreasing costs.

IBM InfoSphere DataStage Benefits

This solution offers many benefits for the companies that utilize it for data integration. Some of these benefits include:

Increased speed of workload execution due to better balancing and a parallel engine.
Reduction of data movement costs through integrations and seamless design of jobs.
Modernization of data integration by extending the capabilities of companies' data.
Delivery of reliable data through IBM Cloud Pak for Data.
Utilization of a drag-and-drop interface which assists in the delivery of data without the need for code.
Effective data manipulation allows data to be merged before being mapped and transformed.
Creating easier access of users to their data by providing visual maps of the process and the delivered data.

Reviews from Real Users

A data/solution architect at a computer software company says the product is robust, easy to use, has a simple error logging mechanism, and works very well for huge volumes of data.

Tirthankar Roy Chowdhury, team leader at Tata Consultancy Services, feels the tool is user-friendly with a lot of functionalities, and doesn't require much coding because of its drag-and-drop features.

IBM

The SnapLogic Intelligent Integration Platform uses AI-powered workflows to automate all stages of IT integration projects – design, development, deployment, and maintenance – whether on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. The platform’s easy-to-use, self-service interface enables both expert and citizen integrators to manage all application integration, data integration, API management, B2B integration, and data engineering projects on a single, scalable platform. With SnapLogic, organizations can connect all of their enterprise systems quickly and easily to automate business processes, accelerate analytics, and drive transformation.

Sample Customers

Dubai Statistics Center, Etisalat Egypt

Adobe, ADP, BlackBerry, Bonobos, Box, Capital One, Dannon, Eero, Endo, Gensler, HCL, HP, Grovo, HIS, iRobot, Leica, Merck, Sans, Target, Verizon, Vodafone, Yelp, Yahoo!

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