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Fivetran vs. Rudderstack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fivetran
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Fivetran replicates applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance data warehouse, after a five minute setup. The vendor says their standardized cloud pipelines are fully managed and zero-maintenance. The vendor says Fivetran began with a realization: For modern companies using cloud-based software and storage, traditional ETL tools badly underperformed, and the complicated configurations they required often led to project failures. To streamline and accelerate…
$0.01
per credit
Rudderstack
Score 3.2 out of 10
N/A
Rudderstack is an open source Customer Data Platform (CDP) that provides data pipelines making it easy to collect data from every application, website and SaaS platform.
$600
per month
Pricing
FivetranRudderstack
Editions & Modules
Starter
$0.01
per credit
Standard
$0.01
per credit
Enterprise
$0.01
per credit
Starter
$600
per month
Growth
Custom
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FivetranRudderstack
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
FivetranRudderstack
Considered Both Products
Fivetran
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fivetran
Matillion requires a lot more initial setup effort and the resulting schemas are also much more "raw" data than the nicely cleaned schemas which Fivetran provides. Therefore it would also require more (manual) post-processing efforts compared to Fivetran. So the savings on time …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fivetran
Fivetran is much easier to set up and maintain. Airbyte still had a degree of technical knowledge requirement that we didn't have the resources to commit. Fivetran allowed a non-technical employee to establish pipelines and immediately start using the data without having to …
Uddipan Mukherjee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Uddipan Mukherjee
Big Data Specialist
Chose Fivetran
Fivetran is a powerful data replication tool that supported use cases for organization-wide data platforms.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fivetran
We never seriously considered using anything else. Our data engineers had used Fivetran extensively in previous roles so when it came time to make a decision, there wasn't much of a process. They gladly signed the contract with Fivetran pretty quickly.
Sudarshan Kothari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sudarshan Kothari
Senior Data Scientist
Chose Fivetran
Fivetran came well with the connectors' availability and updates with the source changes.
We had an idea on data requirements in our case which helped us to work out on cost implication and take a decision for Fivetran as a data provider for our organization.
These were 2 …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fivetran
Fivetran is more intuitive and easier to use than code-based ETL/ELT tools. The data modelling Fivetran performs makes the data more usable more quickly. Fivetran's dbt support and integration is unique.
Scott Laronge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Laronge
Head of Data Science
Chose Fivetran
Honestly, we haven't done much investigation in a while, it just works 360 days of the year. The other five days there may be a hiccup that will throw us a day off of data, but it gets caught up in the end.
Rudderstack
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Rudderstack
Rudderstack offers a similar core product as Segment but differentiates itself with better reverse ETL and data warehouse integrations. They are also significantly less expensive than Segment. While Segment has more downstream destinations than Rudderstack this didn't …
Features
FivetranRudderstack
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Fivetran
10.0
Ratings
18% above category average
Rudderstack
-
Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Fivetran
7.4
Ratings
10% below category average
Rudderstack
-
Ratings
Simple transformations7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Complex transformations7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Fivetran
6.2
Ratings
25% below category average
Rudderstack
-
Ratings
Data model creation2.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Metadata management4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing and debugging9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Fivetran
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
Rudderstack
-
Ratings
Integration with data quality tools8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
FivetranRudderstack
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FivetranRudderstack
Likelihood to Recommend
[Fivetran is] very well suited when you are using popular and common data sources, such as the major ad platforms, and SaaS platforms such as Salesforce. If the majority of your data sources are custom internal applications or databases, may be less value as you aren't leveraging the delivered connectors.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Rudderstack is a great platform for capturing events from various systems and tying them all together in once place. This allows you to have a holistic view of your customer and reach them through various downstream platforms. It also enables the activation of data from your data warehouse into other platforms.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
  • Simplified ETL from a wide range of data sources
  • Stable and painless data pipeline
  • Granular control over what parts of the data source are loaded
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Event streams
  • Reverse ETL
  • Identity resolution
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • Doesn't include support for a Kinesis stream as a data source so couldn't be used for some use cases under consideration
  • Doesn't support the use of "BEFORE DELETE" triggers
  • No support for serverless Aurora
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Alerting
  • Destination catalog
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Anonymous
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Usability
Very easy and intuitive to setup and maintain as there usually are not that many options. Very well documented (e.g. how to setup each connector, how the schema looks like, any specific features of this connector etc.). Also the operation is intuitive, e.g. you have status pages, log pages, configuration pages etc. for each connector.
Verified User
Anonymous
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No answers on this topic
Performance
It runs pretty well and gets our data from point A to point cluster quickly enough. Honestly, it's not something I think about unless it breaks and that's pretty rare.
Scott Laronge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Laronge
Head of Data Science
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No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Fivetran came well with the connectors' availability and updates with the source changes. We had an idea on data requirements in our case which helped us to work out on cost implication and take a decision for Fivetran as a data provider for our organization. These were 2 places where Fivetran out-performed, other vendors.
Sudarshan Kothari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sudarshan Kothari
Senior Data Scientist
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Rudderstack offers a similar core product as Segment but differentiates itself with better reverse ETL and data warehouse integrations. They are also significantly less expensive than Segment. While Segment has more downstream destinations than Rudderstack this didn't negatively impact our use case
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Saved a lot of manual development days (unable to quantify)
  • Accelerated the time to add a new source to the data warehouse a lot
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Significant savings in developer resources
  • Faster moving product insights
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Anonymous
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