Melissa Data Quality vs Qlik Talend Cloud comparison

Melissa and Qlik are both solutions in the Data Quality category. Melissa is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.0, while Qlik is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0. Melissa holds a 3.4% mindshare in DQ, compared to Qlik’s 6.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Melissa users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Qlik users who would recommend it.

Melissa Data Quality

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Melissa Data Quality

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 18, 2025

Qlik Talend Cloud and Melissa Data Quality compete in the data management category, each offering distinct features that cater to specific business needs. Qlik Talend Cloud holds an edge in terms of pricing and support, while Melissa Data Quality is preferred for its powerful features despite higher costs.

Features: Qlik Talend Cloud offers integration capabilities, data transformation tools, and a robust set of components for handling various workflows. In contrast, Melissa Data Quality provides advanced data cleansing, address verification, and geocoding features, focusing on data integrity and accuracy.

Room for Improvement: Qlik Talend Cloud could benefit from enhanced data accuracy tools, better address verification features, and improved cleansing options. Melissa Data Quality might improve its cost structure, provide more competitive pricing, and offer enhanced integration capabilities to broaden its appeal.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qlik Talend Cloud supports multiple environments, allowing easy integration into existing systems, with reliable customer service. Melissa Data Quality ensures straightforward deployment with specialized support for complex data issues, benefiting those needing in-depth assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Qlik Talend Cloud is more budget-friendly, appealing to businesses focused on ROI by offering effective data manipulation at a lower cost. Melissa Data Quality requires a higher initial investment but provides substantial ROI through precise data enrichment features, justifying its premium price with long-term value.

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Melissa Data Quality vs. Qlik Talend Cloud

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Categories and Ranking

Melissa Data Quality

Ranking in Data Quality

5th

Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Qlik Talend Cloud

Ranking in Data Quality

3rd

Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (9th), Master Data Management (MDM) Software (3rd), Cloud Data Integration (7th), Data Governance (8th), Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (4th), Streaming Analytics (9th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 3.4%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qlik Talend Cloud is 6.6%, down from 11.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Quality Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Qlik Talend Cloud	6.6%
Melissa Data Quality	3.4%
Other	90.0%

Data Quality

Featured Reviews

GaryM

Data Architect at World Vision

SSIS MatchUp Component is Amazing

- Scalability is a limitation as it is single threaded. You can bypass this limitation by partitioning your data (say by alphabetic ranges) into multiple dataflows but even within a single dataflow the tool starts to really bog down if you are doing survivorship on a lot of columns. It's just very old technology written that's starting to show its age since it's been fundamentally the same for many years. To stay relavent they will need to replace it with either ADF or SSIS-IR compliant version. - Licensing could be greatly simplified. As soon as a license expires (which is specific to each server) the product stops functioning without prior notice and requires a new license by contacting the vendor. And updating the license is overly complicated. - The tool needs to provide resizable forms/windows like all other SSIS windows. Vendor claims its an SSIS limitation but that isn't true since pretty much all SSIS components are resizable except theirs! This is just an annoyance but needless impact on productivity when developing new data flows. - The tool needs to provide for incremental matching using the MatchUp for SSIS tool (they provide this for other solutions such as standalone tool and MatchUp web service). We had to code our own incremental logic to work around this. - Tool needs ability to sort mapped columns in the GUI when using advanced survivorship (only allowed when not using column-level survivorship). - It should provide an option for a procedural language (such as C# or VB) for survivor-ship expressions rather than relying on SSIS expression language. - It should provide a more sophisticated ability to concatenate groups of data fields into common blocks of data for advanced survivor-ship prioritization (we do most of this in SQL prior to feeding the data to the tool). - It should provide the ability to only do survivor-ship with no matching (matching is currently required when running data through the tool). - Tool should provide a component similar to BDD to enable the ability to split into multiple thread matches based on data partitions for matching and survivor-ship rather than requiring custom coding a parallel capable solution. We broke down customer data by first letter of last name into ranges of last names so we could run parallel data flows. - Documentation needs to be provided that is specific to MatchUp for SSIS. Most of their wiki pages were written for the web service API MatchUp Object rather than the SSIS component. - They need to update their wiki site documentation as much of it is not kept current. Its also very very basic offering very little in terms of guidelines. For example, the tool is single-threaded so getting great performance requires running multiple parallel data flows or BDD in a data flow which you can figure out on your own but many SSIS practitioners aren't familiar with those techniques. - The tool can hang or crash on rare occasions for unknown reason. Restarting the package resolves the problem. I suspect they have something to do with running on VM (vendor doesn't recommend running on VM) but have no evidence to support it. When it crashes it creates dump file with just vague message saying the executable stopped running.

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Herivao Jus Winny

IT Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Has automated recurring data flows and improved accuracy in reporting

The best features of Talend Data Integration are its rich set of components that let you connect to almost any data design intuitive and its strong automation and scheduling capabilities. The TMap component is especially valuable because it allows flexible transformation, joins, and filtering in a single place. I also rely a lot on context variables to manage different environments like Dev, Test, and production, without changing the code. The error handling and logging tools are very helpful for monitoring and troubleshooting, which makes the workflow more reliable. Talend Data Integration has helped our company by automating and standardizing data processes. Before, many of these tasks were done manually, which took more time and often led to errors. With Talend Data Integration, we built automated pipelines that extract, clean, and load data consistently. This not only saves hours of manual effort, but also improves the accuracy and reliability of data. As a result, business teams had faster access to trustworthy information for reporting and decision making, which directly improved efficiency and productivity. Talend Data Integration has had a measurable impact on our organization. By automating daily data loading processes, we reduced manual effort by around three or four hours per day, which saved roughly 60 to 80 hours per month. We also improved data accuracy. Error rates dropped by more than 70% because validation rules were built into the jobs. In addition, reporting teams now receive fresh data at least 50% faster, which means they can make decisions earlier and with more confidence. Overall, Talend Data Integration has increased both efficiency and reliability in our data workflows.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"We ran a standard name, address, and zip code, internal dedupe between the different files we had purchased, and we were able to quickly notify our vendor that they had tens of thousands of duplications that they were not even aware of."

"It gives me an assessed value of the property in question. My partner and I are property investors, and it's good to get an assessed value to cull out properties that we're not interested in."

"We are able to more accurately identify valid, and better formatted, data which improves the data we store in our database."

"The customers' addresses are now complete, correct and follow one consistent format."

"Through more accurate data, our marketing department has been able to increase delivery and conversion rates through email direct marketing initiatives."

"By validating and parsing the addresses our customers submit to us, we have reduced the number of addressing errors encountered during our processing."

"Helps our organization provide accurate address information to our customers for direct mailing (household) and other campaigns they want to do."

"There have been tangible benefits in combating fraudulent transactions. The information from Melissa Data is fed straight into our fraud system. This creates efficiency but also removes the need for manual address checks."

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"I like the way that you can use the context variables, and how you can work those context variables to give you values and settings for every development environment, such as PROD, TEST, and DEV."

"Talend Studio has the ability to connect to almost anything to integrate data from files, databases, web services, etc."

"They're very competitive in terms of performance, which is a good selling point. It has very rich features. It provides a very rich feature set in the application."

"Provides a flexible development environment to the coder."

"The Studio is easy to understand."

"Talend's most valuable feature is its ability to generate code and packages efficiently."

"It is saving a lot of time. Today, we can mask around a hundred million records in 10 minutes. Masking is one of the key pieces that is used heavily by the business and IT folks. Normally in the software development life cycle, before you project anything into the production environment, you have to test it in the test environment to make sure that when the data goes into production, it works, but these are all production files. For example, we acquired a new company or a new state for which we're going to do the entire back office, which is related to claims processing, payments, and member enrollment every year. If you get the production data and process it again, it becomes a compliance issue. Therefore, for any migrations that are happening, we have developed a new capability called pattern masking. This feature looks at those files, masks that information, and processes it through the system. With this, there is no PHI and PII element, and there is data integrity across different systems. It has seamless integration with different databases. It has components using which you can easily integrate with different databases on the cloud or on-premise. It is a drag and drop kind of tool. Instead of writing a lot of Java code or SQL queries, you can just drag and drop things. It is all very pictorial. It easily tells you where the job is failing. So, you can just go quickly and figure out why it is happening and then fix it."

"I like everything about this product, but the biggest thing is the ease of use."

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Cons

"Did not work as advertized. Needs better results in address parsing, as described on the website."

"If I had multiple Excel files open and ran Listware it would crash Excel, charge the credits, and not save the results."

"The SSIS component setup seems a little klunky."

"More countries should be supported by Melissa."

"There are some hitches in setup, especially with the new encoding, but otherwise it’s relatively simple."

"It could always be cheaper."

"Needs to validate more addresses accurately."

"It will mix up family members at times, so we will change addresses at times that shouldn’t be changed."

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"Finding assistance with issues can be spotty. With Python, there are literally millions of open source answers which are recent and apply to the version that we are using."

"Heap space issues plague us consistently. We maxed it out and it runs fine, then it doesn’t, then it does."

"Qlik Talend Cloud is doing well, but one improvement could be the integration of development functionalities we use in Talend Studio directly onto the Talend browser."

"In terms of the solution's technical support, the interactions were satisfactory, but there is room for improvement, especially in managing expectations."

"Qlik Talend Cloud has impacted my organization by increasing the license cost, leading many companies to decide to decommission Talend, as they find the cost too high."

"They don't have any AI capabilities. Talend DQ is specifically for data quality, which only has data profiling. With Talend DQ, I cannot generate any reports today, so I need an ETL tool. It provides general Excel files, or I have to create some views. If instead of buying a new tool, Talend provides a reporting capability or solution, it would be great. It will reduce the development effort for creating these kinds of reports. We also manage the infrastructure for Talend. From the licensing perspective, for cloud, they only have seat licenses where one person is tied to one license, but for on-premise, they have concurrent licenses. It would be really awesome if they can provide concurrent licenses for the cloud so that if one person is not there, somebody else can use that license. Currently, it is not possible unless a person deactivates his or her license and moves the same seat license to someone else. We are one of the biggest customers in the central zone of the US for Talend, and this is the feedback that we have provided them again and again, but they come back and say that they aren't able to provide concurrent licenses on the cloud. In version 7.3, there is a feature for tokenization and de-tokenization of data. This is the feature that we are looking for. It is useful if somebody wants to see what we have masked and how do we demask it. This feature is not there in version 7.1. There are also a few other capabilities on the cloud, but we don't yet have a big footprint in the cloud."

"Sometimes there are bugs which are unidentified and we have to follow-up with the Talend team to resolve them. In a critical situation, it takes time for them to update patches."

"NullPointerExceptions are going to be the death of me and are a big reason for our transition away from Talend. One day, it is fine with a 1000 blank rows, then the next day, it will find one blank cell and it breaks down."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"They were willing to work with our preferred vendors, though it involved extra steps to get the license."

"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."

"This vendor has no equal in pricing for equivalent functionality."

"Pricing is very reasonable, no licensing required."

"The price for address validation is similar in all software. However, the price for geocoding decides the actual pricing. If you get their most accurate geocoding (called GeoPoints), then it will add about $10k+ per million requests."

"Melissa pricing is competitive."

"Be sure to determine how the data is priced (record-based versus credit-based or some hybrid of data and services)."

"I think it's worth the value for me to run it."

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"The price of the Talend Data Management Platform is reasonable. The other competing solutions are priced high. Gartner Magic Quadrant identified other solutions, such as Informatica, that are far more expensive."

"The licensing cost is about 40,000 Euros a year."

"The product pricing is considered very good, especially compared to other data integration tools in the market."

"I would advise to first take a look and at the Open Studio edition. Figure out what you need and purchase the appropriate license."

"The licensing cost for the Talend MDM Platform is paid yearly, but I'm unable to give you the figure. I would rate its price as four out of five because it's on the cheaper side. I'm not aware of any extra costs in addition to the standard licensing fees for the Talend MDM Platform."

"It's a subscription-based platform, we renew it every year."

"It is cheaper than Informatica. Talend Data Quality costs somewhere between $10,000 to $12,000 per year for a seat license. It would cost around $20,000 per year for a concurrent license. It is the same for the whole big data solution, which comes with Talend DI, Talend DQ, and TDM."

"The tool is cheap."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Insurance Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	20

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What do you like most about Talend Data Quality?

The most valuable feature lies in the capability to assign data quality issues to different stakeholders, facilitating the tracking and resolution of defective work.

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What needs improvement with Talend Data Quality?

I don't use the automated rule management feature in Talend Data Quality that much, so I cannot provide much feedback. I may not know what Talend Data Quality can improve for data quality. I'm not ...

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What is your primary use case for Talend Data Quality?

It is for consistency, mainly; data consistency and data quality are our main use cases for the product. Data consistency is the primary purpose we use it for, as we have written rules in Talend Da...

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Overview

Data Quality Components for SSIS

This suite of data transformations for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) delivers the full spectrum of data quality including data profiling, data verification, data enrichment and data matching. With an intuitive interface and drag/drop capabilities, this powerful toolkit makes it easy to unify data into a single version of the truth for Master Data Management (MDM) success.

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Qlik Talend Cloud provides robust data integration tools tailored for efficient management of large volumes, offering real-time data access, Java integration, and custom code capabilities for developers.

Qlik Talend Cloud is known for its extensive connectivity options, enabling seamless integration across different platforms, such as S3, Redshift, Oracle, and SQL Server. The central repository facilitates consistent metadata access throughout organizations, enhancing collaboration. Despite its strengths in advanced monitoring, automation, and user-friendly drag-and-drop interfaces, users face challenges with installation stability, technical support, documentation inconsistencies, and complexities in learning. Performance concerns also include multitasking limitations and excessive memory usage. The platform's licensing costs can be prohibitive for smaller companies, while demands for improved data governance and intuitive code management continue. Its applications in healthcare data parsing, ETL task automation, and diverse data platform integration demonstrate its utility, although there's a constant demand for better scalability and efficient transformations.

What are the key features?

Seamless Real-Time Data Access: Ensures that users can access the latest information across systems without delays for better decision-making.
Java Integration: Facilitates smooth incorporation of Java components into workflows, broadening development options.
Custom Code Development: Offers flexibility to develop tailored solutions to meet specific integration scenarios.
Vast Connectors: Enhances connectivity between multiple platforms, supporting comprehensive data integration strategies.
Central Repository: Allows for uniform metadata access across departments, promoting cohesive data management practices.
Automation and Monitoring: Streamlines workflows with advanced automation and monitoring, reducing manual intervention and errors.

What benefits and ROI should users evaluate?

Improved Data Quality: Tools for data matching and error handling ensure high-quality, reliable data for analytics and reporting.
Efficient Workflow Streamlining: Drag-and-drop interfaces and automation features simplify complex workflows, enhancing operational efficiency.
Enhanced Business Insights: By integrating diverse data sources, businesses can derive deeper insights and ensure compliance through better data management.
Cost Management: Although some users find licensing expensive, comprehensive feature sets aimed at improving data processes can justify costs.
Community Support: Users benefit from active community forums that provide assistance, although technical support also necessitates enhancements.

In specialized industries like healthcare, users leverage Qlik Talend Cloud for data integration and transformation, aiding in compliance and analytics. Compatibility with cloud and on-premises systems ensures adaptability to complex data tasks, facilitating business application development. Organizations focus on enhanced data ingestion and quality checks for comprehensive solutions.

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Sample Customers

Boeing Co., FedEx, Ford Motor Co, Hewlett Packard, Meade-Johnson, Microsoft, Panasonic, Proctor & Gamble, SAAB Cars USA, Sony, Walt Disney, Weight Watchers, and Intel.

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