Talend Open Studio [EOL] Reviews

We are currently using the free version. We use the solution to extract loads from the source system into the entire house. We are also doing API and data integrations from TXT or XML files.

Though we are not currently using it for big data, there is a plan to extract data from MongoDB.

The API integration and big data approach are very good because of how you extract data from JSP files or big data web repositories like MongoDB. This is an excellent tool for big data and API integration.

Comparing Talend Open Studio with SSIS, Informatica, or Data Services, I think the overall workspace concept can be improved since these other solutions have workflows and data flows.

I have been using Talend Open Studio for the past three months.

The solution is stable enough. It's a mature tool. It is a bit complex in a few areas, such as when writing your ETL Jobs, because tLoop is slightly confusing.

I have used SSIS, SAP Data Services, and Informatica to a small extent in my previous companies. My current company uses Talend.

We currently use the free version, where we don't get the built-in scheduler. We had to deploy the job on the server as a file and, using the CRON jobs, schedule the batch or shell file. We can deploy the solution and the ETL jobs in ten or 15 minutes.

We are using the tool's free version because the enterprise version is a little expensive.

You would need three enterprise servers if you are going for a full-scale lifecycle, like development, quality, and production. That would be expensive because the servers have yearly costs.

We can only have one user in the free version. We are now wondering whether we should go for the enterprise version or switch to a different platform, like the HANA platform, HANA cloud, or Datasphere. Or another platform called Encarta. There are multiple technologies we are exploring.

It's a good tool overall, but that depends on whether you have the enterprise version. The free version is not for a team in which you have more than one member. In this case, you have to go for the enterprise version, which is a bit expensive.

Likewise, you do not get support with the free version, so you won't speak with tech support. There is, however, a community with a knowledge base in forums.

You also get the scheduler, the deployment, and everything with the enterprise version. You could deploy the solution on the server and then schedule the jobs. Likewise, you get logging and an audit trail of your jobs. Currently, we maintain these jobs manually.

They should make purchasing the servers for the enterprise version a one-time payment, where you buy the server, and that should be it. The yearly cost is what makes Talend not a great tool.

Talend is fine if you are only using it for the ETL tools. However, there are other options, such as SSIS, Informatica, and SAP Data Services, which are not promising for Talend Open Studio. Some things are easier with other tools. Talend is logical, but a few things are not very straightforward. If there is an option to choose from other ETL tools, I would rate Informatica number one, in second place, maybe SSIS, and then maybe Talend.

If Talend Open Studio is cheaper than other solutions, you can go for it.

Talend Open Studio is mainly with data warehouses. It is also used for data masks. There are so many types of projects we can do with Talend.

There are many things I like about Talend since I'm a Talend enthusiast. There are many architectures: hybrid, cloud, and on-prem. We can use the solution on a Linux or Windows architecture. There are many solutions for the same problem when we get experience and build a relationship with the tool. The tool also has a strong community.

I've used Talend Open Studio since 2016.

I rate Talend Open Studio's stability an eight out of ten. Talend has some problems sometimes.

The tool is not scalable, but the solutions you create with the tool are.

Open Studio's initial setup is pretty easy. When installing the solution, you get installation on the cloud console, and you get the installation with Java integrated. The easy configuration allows a quick start.

However, you need some lessons. I give lessons to customer companies. The course has four lessons per year. It's quite simple to learn how to use Talend.

Open Studio is free to use. Without a license, you cannot use versioning, and you have to use an external scheduler. The product is not so expensive compared to other alternatives. Talend Open Studio costs about 11,000 a year.

I rate Talend Open Studio a seven out of ten. I recommend this solution.

I am using Talend Open Studio for ETL. I extra data from APIs and transform it for the data warehouse.

The most valuable feature of Talend Open Studio is the tMap component. There is a lot of functionality in one component.

The stability of the solution could improve when running jobs. There can be errors when running projects but in the end, it works well and the errors do not impact the result.

I have been using Talend Open Studio for approximately one month.

There are times in our usage when the solution crashes. When we are running jobs that are more than one or two it can crash or not work well.

I rate the stability of Talend Open Studio a five out of ten.

We have approximately eight people using this solution in my company.

The solution is scalable.

I have used Informatica before Talend Open Studio and when comparing the two, the interface is more intuitive in Talend Open Studio.

The setup of Talend Open Studio is simple. The process took approximately two hours and it was my first experience.

I rate the initial setup of Talend Open Studio a ten out of ten.

I implemented the solution.

I am using the open-source version and it is free.

The solution does not require any maintenance.

I recommend this solution to beginners. It is free and the interface is intuitive and has a lot of helpful components.

I rate Talend Open Studio an eight out of ten.

I use the open-source version of this solution. It's data integration-related. Right now, I'm doing some legacy TL into a new enterprise data repository.

When the tool has an error, the error-handling is not that user-friendly. It might just be my inexperience with the tool, but I struggle a lot with finding my layers sometimes. I think my biggest problem with the tool is that the errors are very hard to debug.

Our special need is geospatial data, so that could be included as part of the tool and not only as an add-on. It's always hard to do add-ons and tools when it's a third party, and every time there's going to be an upgrade, you don't know if it will keep working. It would be great if they were included as part of the main tool, like FME. That would be my main concern about the Talend tool right now.

I have been using this solution for about a month. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution has add-ons that you can add. I'm dealing with geospatial data, and you have to have add-ons to do that, but I haven't gotten a chance to add them yet. The first add-on I tried didn't work, but I think it might just be outdated and not compatible with the version of the product that I have.

There are two of us using this solution, my colleague and myself, but in the next month or so we are going to get the Professional version in a private cloud environment. We're exploring the tool to decide if it's going to become our tool of choice for the data repository and data warehouse. Right now, we're working locally with the open-source version of it, but we're trying to decide if Talend is the right tool for us and in order to do that, we want to have the proper version of Talend in the proper environment and then do all the tests.

FME has been used for a long time at my company, strictly for managing geospatial data. Now, we're creating an enterprise repository, and we need to deal with the regular data plus the geospatial data together, so we're trying to find a tool that will be able to handle both of these types of data, and manage all of the enterprise requirements that we have. We have used solutions like FME, but I don't believe there was any other tool that was used on the scale that we're trying to use Talend now.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. I didn't have many problems installing it. It seemed very straightforward to me. 

Deployment can take a few hours, depending on your environment, because it requires some things that you may need to install if you're missing them. I think it took me probably under an hour to do it.

I did the deployment myself on my local workstation. 

Right now, because we're using the open-source version, there's no cost. However, down the road when we use the Professional version, there will be costs. I don't know what the cost will be because I'm not involved in that, but I know that there is a license at that point.

I would rate this solution as a seven out of ten. 

We use the solution for integration, warehousing, and enterprise service costs.

The technical team uses media resources from Facebook and other social media platforms for ETL.

It is easy to use and covers most of the functions needed. We can use the code without any extra effort. The open source is very good. They have the same commercials with additional connectors. The graphical design environment is also very easy.

The solution needs more integrations.

I have been using Talend Open Studio for two or three years.

The product is very stable.

The solution’s scalability is good. We have five users and are building ETL integration and design to implement with another system. We have three licenses for developers.

We worked with the SSI, but it had very few primitive integrations and was hard to use. We switched to Talend because of the integration of two-way communication. You can add components for that warehouse for the quality. It is a complete platform for integration.

The initial setup is very efficient and takes about a half day to complete with configuration and needed components.

Talend gives you what you want without hiring new people and offers extra services. They train mid-senior developers to use it perfectly.

The product’s pricing is reasonable. It has an annual subscription.

I recommend the solution because it has a huge community in which to get support. We have additional connectors from the community and support.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

The product is easy to install and configure. It is one of the best tools for data integration.

It is complicated to understand the configuration process for email components.

We have been using Talend Open Studio for two to three months.

I rate the product’s stability a nine out of ten.

I rate the product’s scalability a nine out of ten. Currently, we have one user in our organization. We plan to add more users in the future.

The initial setup is straightforward. It takes a couple of hours to complete.

It is an open-source product.

I rate Talend Open Studio a nine out of ten. It is an interesting tool to learn. It has many components compared to other products. It supports multiple operating systems and platforms.

My company uses Talend Open Studio to support ETL processes.

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source tool. For all the components of the tool, you can work on the desktop version, and later on, once the component and ETL transformation are completed, we can move to the cloud. With other tools, trial versions are available only for one month. Talend makes available an open-source community version, which is helpful for ETL transformation.

Talend Open Studio is in Java language, and right now, you can only use the debug functionality in Java. I see that people who know programming languages other than Java currently face difficulties. The aforementioned area can be of concern where improvements can be considered to help non-Java users.

I have been using Talend Open Studio for a year. I use the solution's latest version. I work as a system integrator in my company.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Four people in my company, consisting of data engineers, data analysts, and data scientists, use the solution.

I haven't communicated with the solution's technical support since one can quickly grab any information from the product's documentation.

Informatica and Azure are some of the products I have used in the past. Based on clients' requirements, my company chose Talend Open Studio over Informatica.

The initial setup of the product was very easy.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

Based on the log file and how the transformation and aggregation work, within five three to five minutes, the transformation happens.

There is no maintenance required for the product in my company.

I recommend the product to those who plan to use it.

I rate the overall solution a seven out of ten.

I use Talend for different projects as I am studying business intelligence. 

I am using Talend for data integration and integrating Oracle and SQL Server, specifically using it for collecting data from Oracle and charging it to SQL Server.

The rapidity of integration with data may be one of the valuable features. Talend is easy to use due to its interface, which has helped in working with columns and data integration.

I faced a problem with the connection between Oracle and SQL Server due to a port issue.

I have been using it for two years.

Talend Open Studio is a scalable solution.

The initial setup is easy.

I am using the open-source version of the solution, so there are no extra costs for any feature.

Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.

I use Open Studio for the day-to-day management of our data architecture warehouse. 

Open Studio's best features are that it's user-friendly, even for beginners, and very easy to implement.

Open Studio's pipelines could be improved. It's also lagging behind as the market moves toward the cloud and needs to provide better serviceability. In the next release, Open Studio should include cloud storage as an input.

I've been using Open Studio for four to five years.

Open Studio's stability isn't great - it seems to need a patch every month and has a lot of security issues.

Talend's technical support isn't very good and not worth the money we spend on it.

Neutral

The initial setup is pretty easy.

Open Studio has a basic license and additional costs for services, including customer support and technical assistance.

I would recommend Open Studio for data operations, but potential customers should be aware of the lack of support and technical expertise Talend provides. I rate Open Studio as six out of ten.

The ease to use is great. You've got a lot of functionalities in there. The kind of connectors that you have within Talend is actually quite good. If you look at Talend, it has got more than 900 plus connectors that you can work with. You basically can work with a variety of data sources. There's no limit to it. That is one of the key benefits of Talend.

The initial setup is easy.

The solution is stable.

It's a scalable product.

Technical support is helpful.

It is user-friendly and the interface is good. 

The integration capabilities have been fine. 

Nothing comes to mind in terms of areas of improvement. 

Multiple products are there within the product suite. That can be actually trimmed down. Instead of having multiple products, what they can do is they can have a smaller set of products. That would be better.

You need a Java virtual machine, version 11. Anything below that is not going to work.

Technical support could answer queries a bit faster. 

I just installed the solution two or three weeks ago. 

The stability is very good. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. The reliability is good.

It can scale as needed. That's not a problem.

We have four or five users using the solution in our company. They are developers. 

Technical support has been quite good. We are very happy with them so far.

Of course, they could always be more responsive.  

Positive

It's quite simple to set up. It's all about the installation. Just you need to click on the main file, and then it's just next, next, next. That's it. The one thing that you need to make sure of is that you have a JVM of version 11. It's just a standard installation. However, after that, the main thing that you need to make sure of is that you have a Java virtual machine, version 11. Anything below that will not work.

The pricing is reasonable. 

I'd rate the pricing on offer a five out of five. they make it very affordable. 

We also looked at Informatica. That is one of the leading platforms in the data integration space. Both solutions have got the same capabilities, however, the good thing about Talend is that is the cost. It's a bit cheaper.

The solution is deployed on my personal laptop.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.