Skyvia Pros and Cons

At Tennis Canada, we primarily use Skyvia to replicate databases from cloud sources into a centralized data warehouse (Google Big Query), and it has been a total game-changer for us. One of the key differentiators of Skyvia compared to its direct competitors (such Integrate.io, Stitch, and Hevo) is its ability to handle a wide range of use cases: database replication, backup, ETL, reverse ETL (pushing data back into applications), import/export, and more. This makes skyvia a one-stop solution for most of our data integration needs.

Pros:

Ease of Use: The first thing you notice is how intuitive and well-designed the user interface is is: it is so easy to create and organize integrations and pipelines, schedule and monitor jobs in just a few clicks. It has saved our data team many hours.

Comprehensive Documentation: Skyvia’s documentation is exhaustive, easy to understand and regularly updated. We’ve been able to find answers to most of our questions without needing to contact support.

Customer Support: The customer support team is fantastic. They usually respond to our inquiries within hours and never more than a day or two. They are always helpful, friendly and professional. They really want you to be satisfied with your experience.

Competitive Pricing: Skyvia's data integration is affordable and competitively priced, especially when compared to alternatives like Fivetran, Airbyte, and Talend. The pricing comparable with competitors such as Integrate.io, Hevo, and Stitch.

Scalable Solution: Even if we are not currently using all the products and features available, one of the reason we chose Skyvia is for its ability to handle multiple data integration scenarios and grow with our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cons:

Available connectors: While Skyvia already offers a wide selection of connectors, it is still not has comprehensive as more mature solutions like Talend or Fivetran who offer hundreds of connectors. That said the primary connectors we need are currently available (salesforce, shopify, Google Analytics, Big Query, etc). Additionnally, the product team is very responsive and willing to build new connectors based on our requests, which will help us scale the platform as we adopt new applications .

Limited Advanced Features and customization for Larger data teams: For larger company with highly specialized and sophisticated integration needs, Skyvia may not offer as many advanced options or enterprise-grade features as some competitors, though it seems like a perfect solution for most use cases in smaller to medium sized organization who are at the beginning of their data integration journey and don't have dedicated data engineering teams . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I found Skyvia when Sequin switched their business model away from my purpose (replicating Airtable to BigQuery) and so far it's been great. They have far more features than I would use but is priced better than anyone out there for data replication. On day one I set it up and haven't needed to even go back to it. It replicates hourly for me and handles all of the little details that make this particular type of replication more complicated than I desire to try and figure out.

It's been great so far and barring no huge cost changes I have no plans to change services for the foreseeable future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Haven't found anything yet to dislike as I've had it for just under a year and has done everything I've required it to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've been using Skyvia's data replication service for a while now, and it's been a fantastic experience. The service is super reliable, easy to set up, and has really streamlined our data workflows. It’s made a noticeable difference in both speed and accuracy for us.

What really stands out, though, is the support. It's not every day you get such excellent customer service, and it’s made all the difference when we’ve had questions or needed assistance.

Overall, we’re really happy with Skyvia and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a solid, hassle-free data replication solution. Big thanks to Darina for going above and beyond, she has been amazing – always quick to respond and incredibly helpful! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Out of all the technologies we use in our infrastructure, Skyvia's has always been on the ball and we have had no issues with their service - a rarity in the IT world! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, reasonably affordably priced, great logging and monitoring. Our company used to be able to lean on free versions of middleware software to do these tasks, but needed something more reliable as we grew. Skyvia was the perfect tool. I was able to deploy it in less than a week with basically no issues, other than a few data transformations we needed to do. Thankfully those were very easy to do in Skyvia, as long as we signed up for the paid version. I have our current integrations on a schedule that runs once a day. Would prefer more frequent but the price is right for 1x per day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything works great for what we need it for. Would love to be able to run our operations once an hour instead of once a day, but we can work with once a day for the price we pay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Skyvia supports all the tools used in our daily workflow. It's Zoho CRM, MySQL and PostgreSQL. We really spent less than 5 minutes for connecting each tool to Skyvia. Setting up the data transfer pipelines between tools also takes several minutes.

Another thing I appreciate is the daily data renewal under the free plan. We're find with it at the moment but might consider swithcing to paid options as the data volumes grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since this tool meets all our requirements and performs flawlessly, there is no reason to dislike it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about Skyvia is its simplicity. It's intuitive and easy to navigate that you even don't stuck in the process. Of course, we referred to the documentation to discover nuances on the replication flow, but the setup was easy. It's cool that replicaion can be set up on a schedule. And on the first run, Skyvia created all the tables on the PosgreSQL sude. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Skyvia doesn't provide any in-app notification when the repliation interaction is completed. For us, this is important.

Of course, it's possible to track the progress and see the results in the monitoring tab, but notifications would

certainly be a great plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Skyvia is a great connector. I crossed-shopped them with Windsor.AI and Weld.app, and Skyvia has the best price-functionality ratio. I use it to export our HubSpot data to BigQuery with a daily replication schedule. It was easy to set up, and customer support has been super helpful. I’m not a professional data scientist, so I needed some hand-holding connecting it to our BigQuery account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't experienced any major issues with Skyvia. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love using skyvia's incremental update feature to move data from SFDC and many other sources into Google Bigquery. Skyvia can connect to most things including on prem data sources using their secure agents. The incremental updates let me keep data in sync with our data warehouse effectivly live with the sync happening every 5 minutes. Customer suppot is also killer and very responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The outreach integration has an issue when syncing very large datasets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We already knew that we wanted a solution for making regular backups of our SF data, but we didn't have any specific criteria for that. Just wanted it to be simple in use and economic in price. We're excited about Skyvia becuase it's clear, the backup is done in 4 steps all in visual form. An additional surprise was the automation of backups, so just one-time setup was needed. Now it's done regularly on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

"After several weeks of using Skyvia Backup we figured it our that our oldest backups were deleted. The reason was that

there was not enough space for newer backups so the oldest got removed. And we didn't get any notifications about

the lack of space. If anyone has the same thing, go to notification setting in your account and turn on notifications there. " Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a great tool to help you manage your data across different SAAS (CRM, Cloud accounting, ERP, etc) for differents usages : backup, migrate and integration.

I like it's flexibility and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some apps are not already available for the backup functionnalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.