Talend Open Studio [EOL] Reviews

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.

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.

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 solution in my company to create dataflows and feed the data warehouse required for business intelligence.

The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required.

I have been using Talend Open Studio for five years.

I haven't seen any bug-related issues in the dataflows. I haven't seen any bug-related issues in the dataflows, and I haven't found any problems while conducting verifications through Talend Management Console. I rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten.

Around four or five people, consisting of technical personnel, in my company, work with the product.

I have contacted the product's support team to be able to change the principal user in Talend Management Console.

The product's initial setup phase was easy.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

The solution can be deployed in a day or two.

I carried out the product's deployment phase since I work as an integrator and consultant of Talend products.

For Talend Open Studio, there is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing cost. Talend Open Studio is a bit expensive, in my opinion.

A scenario where Talend Open Studio has streamlined our company's ETL processes stems from the fact that it helps in areas like performing a CROSS JOIN of data between an ERP tool and a solution for financial data.

In Talend Open Studio, the features I have found to be the most beneficial for our company's data workflows stem from the Talend Data Integration, Talend Management Console, and the ability to access Talend Identity and Access Management.

Speaking about how Talend Open Studio's user interface or design impacted secure data integration processes, I would say that its users don't have access to areas like Talend Data Stewardship. The users of the product in our company can just consume the data that is loaded in the data warehouse.

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

I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. I would push Talend Data Integration over Talend Open Studio since the latter is no longer supported. I feel that Talend Data Integration can help users follow dataflow better.

I have no idea whether the scalability feature of the product supports my company's business growth.

Talend Open Studio is easy to use.

Talend Open Studio isn't supported anymore. The difficulty stems from the fact that my organization pushed Talend Open Studio for a lot of small companies that don't have extra IT services. All the big companies use SQL Server or SQL Server Integration Services. It becomes difficult for companies to choose between Talend and SQL Server Integration Services before considering the prices.

I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.

We use it to construct a robust data warehouse. This involves seamlessly integrating data from diverse sources into our data warehouse. It plays a crucial role in ensuring data cleanliness and quality throughout the integration process. We also use it for effective fraud detection measures, further enhancing the reliability and security of our data warehouse.

The standout feature for me is the user-friendly nature of the components. They make the entire process exceptionally easy. Another aspect I appreciate is the scripting part, where Java code can be written. Many of the components I've utilized, especially those for data connections and recommendations to various sources, have proven highly beneficial. The capability to seamlessly integrate Python code within Talend Open Studio adds another layer of versatility.

When faced with a challenge, such as the necessity to link up with an unconventional data source like the legacy Cyprus Vision database that wasn't inherently supported by Talend, I had to resort to writing Python code to establish the connection. The administration console could potentially streamline payment management processes.

I have been working with it for ten years now.

The stability provided is excellent, we didn't have any issues with it.

It provides good scalability capabilities.

We used DataStage some time ago. More recently, I've also had experience with Microsoft Integration Services. Upon comparison, I found Microsoft Integration Services to be more user-friendly in comparison to DataStage.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We simply download the tool and place it into a designated folder. After setting up, we execute the tool and commence job development. Once the job development phase is complete, we build the jobs, generating a Java file that can be further exported to a job scheduler for seamless integration into our workflow.

The cost, particularly in Africa, is quite high.

Overall, I would rate it 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.

I primarily use the solution for integration. I consolidate data from several different databases and spreadsheets and merge systems into Amazon Redshift.

The solution has a good balance between automated items and the ability for a developer to integrate and extend what he needs. Other competing tools do not offer the same grade of flexibility when you need to go beyond what is provided by the tool. Talend, on the other hand, allows you to expand very easily.

We have a good integration with Artifactory and a good integration with GitHub. 

I don't see the need for anything. At the moment, Talend is a good complete product while at the same time not being overwhelming.

What I really don't like is the TAC, which is the Talent Administration Console. It's currently slow, old technology. It's obsolete and ugly to use. The studio is great, whereas TAC is on the other side of the spectrum. Actually, in AWS, in many cases, we are ditching the TAC and we are using Amazon-provided services, like Lambda functions, to code the Talend files produced by Talend Studio.

The server-side should be completely revamped.

I've been dealing with the solution for more than three years.

There are two pairs of version keys that parallelize, which is not available in the free version. However, when you can parallelize your jobs you can achieve a good degree of scalability. This is one of the points where Talend shines compared to, for example, Informatica. Informatica is designed to do one record at a time. It requires expert support and general competence in the product.

Talend, by default, can be very efficient, especially using the bulk load and bulk insert components, which, at the moment we are using. We are moving to approximately 10 terabytes of data daily. Notwithstanding the load, we had to tweak very, very little. Using standard components we could achieve our overall needs.

The fact that the technical support is out of China means that sometimes the engineers don't have a good command of the English language. That could hinder the overall experience. Apart from that, most of the incidents were resolved in 48 hours. Therefore, we're pretty satisfied with the level of service we've received.

I have previously worked with Informatica and TIBCO. I still believe Talent is superior. 

Obviously, being on AWS, we're using Linux AMI machines or vertical machines, using two machines. The setup was very easy. The only difficult part was to set up to the current time zone, however, this is nothing to do with Talend. We were having issues when Talend jobs were reporting the wrong date when they arrived because the set up was ETC rather than the local time zone.

Setting up Talend and setting up the administration console at the Tac server was very, very easy for somebody with a Linux System Administration skillset.

I set up the solution on my own.

I don't deal with corporate and pricing. I am just an IT Consultant. I honestly don't know the costs to run the solution. I don't know the price. I know people in the finance department are often complaining about the price, however, I don't know what the exact number is. 

It's all relative, after all. I have a very strong Oracle background and the Oracle price is totally outrageous. I don't believe that Talend prices are in the same ballpark as Oracle. I don't understand why people are complaining. That said, I don't deal with signing contracts and processes so I really don't know.

I am an IT Consultant. I use it currently in my job. I'm providing services to a company in Australia, using Talend.

I would advise others to use the Studio. If you have to pay for some license to use the key parallelize component, it's a good idea to do it. However, don't use the TAC. Use the other orchestration services like Control-M or AWS functions such as AWS Lambda. Don't use the TAC. The TAC is really ugly.

Overall, I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. I'd rate it higher, however, the TAC is unreliable. It's a big part of the solution, and, while I do really appreciate Talend Studio and the ability to link into a producer to make a Java code, which is ugly, I don't care because the job is done anyway. The fact that the orchestration is creating execution plans, from the TAC it's fine. However, when the running of the execution plan, sometimes there are issues. The job remains stuck on the actual server. I've had a lot of issues with TAC.