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Melissa Data Quality vs SQL Power Data Quality comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Melissa Data Quality
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Quality (11th)
SQL Power Data Quality
Ranking in Data Scrubbing Software
7th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Data Scrubbing Software category, the mindshare of Melissa Data Quality is 9.0%, up from 8.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SQL Power Data Quality is 3.2%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Scrubbing Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Melissa Data Quality9.0%
SQL Power Data Quality3.2%
Other87.8%
Data Scrubbing Software
 

Featured Reviews

GM
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.
reviewer2091297 - PeerSpot reviewer
Fraud Strategist(Actimize/SAS) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Is easy to deploy and is stable and scalable
I like the load balancing feature The normalization factor should be improved so that it is better scaled. It should be more user-friendly. It should be easier to export reports. I've been using SQL Power Data Quality for 10 years. SQL Power Data Quality is stable. It is a scalable solution.…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I believe the Melissa Data products are very good."
"Extremely easy to install and setup."
"By using Melissa Data, we are able to scrub and verify, then better validate the end customer's address to ensure a more consistent delivery of products."
"It is easy to install and configure, integrates well with Visual Studio Data Tools, generates a unique key for every address it processes, generates correct error codes whenever it corrects an address, and is very reliable."
"When we plugin the contact verify component in the ETL from Source Systems, it will greatly help in standardizing and cleansing the source data and help keep the downstream systems clean."
"It cuts down significantly on time in trying to match names to addresses. I can do in a few hours what would otherwise take days to accomplish."
"Provides simplicity, ease of use, combined with overall accuracy of data."
"Enables us to send out bulk mailings when we need to verify NCOA."
"The solution is able to integrate with many systems and other products."
"It is a scalable solution. We have over 1,000 SQL Power Data Quality users in our organization."
"SQL Power Data Quality is truly a proven product that makes the work of cleaning data in both source and target data easy yet efficient."
"The Nomo, select form, and so on are the most valuable features."
"The solution is very easy to use and it's quite flexible."
 

Cons

"We have noticed that some of the emails and addresses return with confusing or incorrect codes, but for the most part, it is accurate.​"
"Needs to provide more phone numbers, even cell numbers (scrubbed numbers)."
"It would be nice if it also had a user interface, as it did in years past."
"MatchUp is a more complex product and I recommend a test area before upgrading to production. Performance can change from version to version."
"It really hasn't given us a phone number for the owner of the property, and that's one thing I'd really like to be getting. Either a phone number or email."
"It could always be cheaper."
"Did not work as advertized. Needs better results in address parsing, as described on the website."
"We are no longer using Melissa Data to clean up our address information as there are free tools that we can use to do the same thing."
"Integrating SQL Power with the system is challenging especially in places where no tutorials found and new versions continue to be released with varying requirements."
"The only area of improvement that we've come across within the solution was the portfolio roadmap creation. There's a bit of limitation there, but otherwise, the tool itself is very good."
"Downtime issues should be improved."
"The normalization factor should be improved so that it is better scaled. It should be more user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cloud version is very cheap. On-premise version is expensive."
"Fully understand your volume, both monthly and annually. Speak with a Melissa account manager, they will put together an effective solution to meet your needs."
"I think it's worth the value for me to run it."
"Understand how may transactions you will be processing so that you can get the right tier pricing."
"Depends on situation. We prefer to have data onsite, but some might prefer web access."
"​You should have a good idea of the size of your data and the amount of cleansing you will be doing, so you will purchase the appropriate size bundle.​"
"Pricing is very reasonable, no licensing required."
"The only complaint that I have towards it is they sell licenses based on a range of usage, and I feel those ranges are too large."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
20%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
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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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