About Talend Big Data Integration
Back in December, Talend’s Chief Marketing Officer Ashley Stirrup made things interesting when he wrote a blog post outlining the importance of speed when working with Big Data. In the post, he stresses that the speed advantages Talend offers over some of the other vendors in the space was nothing short of fact, and he wanted to prove it. So Talend went ahead and used MCG Global Services to run some benchmark tests, pitting Talend Big Data Integration up against the big kid on the block, Informatica Big Data Edition.Stirrup believes that MCG did a “really nice job” on the benchmark, defining a common set of use cases and questions that would be relevant to the majority of data-driven organizations. You can access that benchmark report here, but according to the graphs, Talend not only defeated Informatica, but cruised right past them. Talend explains that their victory in this contest is a result of their tool enabling users to leverage Spark’s in-memory capabilities to integrate datasets at faster rates than their competitor, adding: “With Informatica Big Data Edition, which doesn’t support Spark directly, how Hive-on-Spark behaves and performs is up to the Hadoop engine and how it is configured.”As the current king of the Data Integration market, Informatica issued a response the only way we would expect: by writing a blog post highlighting the reasons why their platform was best while completely ommitting the word name ‘Talend.’ Informatica’s Principal Big Data Product Manager Sumeet Agrawal says: “Informatica has always embraced open source innovation for its products and will continue to leverage and extend open source technologies. Informatica already uses Spark for graph processing. However, our latest Big Data Management product shows 2-3 times faster performance over Spark for batch ETL processing by using Informatica Blaze on YARN.”Sumeet goes on to caution solution-seekers to be wary of benchmarks that do not consider a variety of critical criteria, referring to Talend simply as “a software vendor” and reprimanding them for comparing a two-year old version of Informatica which supported only MapReduce. Sumeet goes on to explain why Talend’s benchmark was misleading, citing Talend’s selection of a custom benchmarking over an industry standard TPC test which would provide vendor-neutral evaluation for performance. In addition, Sumeet argues that the benchmark was run using only 12 million records on a cluster with 4 CPUs, 20.5 GB of memory and 200 GB of storage, something that is not representative of a real-world Big Data environment.Phew! Glad that’s over. The enterprise Big Data Integration market is no place for this kind of drama, right? Wrong!It later came out, according to a January Talend blog post, that Informatica’s lawyers sent letters to MCG to retract the benchmark However, Talend did admit that it had used an outdated version of Informatica. Talend’s Chief Technical Officer Laurent Bride went on to scold Informatica regarding the frequency with which they update their tools, saying: “In general, Informatica releases their products every 2-3 years, while we release twice per year, so it’s
Key features of the Talend Big Data Integration that are enabled through these drivers include:
- Talend Open Studio for Data Integration(else Big Data) link
- Talend Data Integration features and reviews of 2025 - Think Big
- Talend Platform for Big Data Integration (Legacy) Reviews - Gartner
- Top Talend Platform for Big Data Integration (Legacy) Likes
- Introduction to Data Integration - Talend
- Etl with talend (big data)
- Compare Talend Big Data Platform vs. Talend
Datamation content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More.Bottom Line:For companies looking for a low-cost solution for basic data integration functionality, Talend Open Studio gets the job done. The company also offers commercially supported solutions based on the same code that expand the product’s functionality. It has an impressive list of more than 900 connectors and an Eclipse-based development environment.See Talend Open Studio user reviews.Jump to: Talend Open Studio Features TableCompany Description:Founded in 2005, Talend offers open source solutions for big data management and data integration. It launched Talend Open Studio in 2006, which it claims made the firm the first commercial open source data integration vendor. For the last three years in a row, Gartner has named Talend a Leader in its Magic Quadrant report for data integration.Talend’s headquarters is in Redwood City, California, and it has more than 1,000 employees. It had $148.5 million in revenue in 2017 from more than 1,500 enterprise customers. It is traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol TLND.Product Description:Talend Open Studio for Data Integration is the company’s open source solution for ETL. It features an Eclipse-based development environment that will be familiar to developers, ELT and ETL support, versioning, and a long list of connectors. Additional features are available through the company’s other open source projects, including Data Streams Free Edition, Open Studio for Big Data, Open Studio for Data Quality, Open Studio for ESB and Open Studio for MDM.The company also offers a commercial solution called Talend Data Management Platform that is based on the same code. It adds rich development tools, an administration center, monitoring console, data preparation, data quality, high availability and other features, as well as paid support. See the Talend Data Platform updates.Features:Deployment:On-premisesLicensing:Apache open source licenseSystem Requirements:Talend Open Studio runs on 64-bit versions of Windows, Ubuntu or macOS. It requires 3GB RAM (4 GB recommended) and 3 GB of storage space, as well as Java.ConnectorsMore than 900 pre-built connectors and components for Oracle, Teradata, Microsoft SQL server, Marketo, Salesforce, NetSuite, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Sugar CRM, Dropbox, Box, SMTP, FTP/SFTP, LDAP, and moreDesign and Development Environment:Eclipse-based development environmentKey CapabilitiesETL and ELT supportEclipse-based development toolingVersioningLarge library of connectorsData flow orchestrationFile management without scriptingData transformationsSupport and Services:Certification, training, technical support and consulting availablePricing:Free; price for commercial version on requestTalend Open Studio Features TableFeaturesTalend Open StudioDeploymentOn-premisesSystem RequirementsOperating
