
Processes are defined using workflow mapping, much like ESB's or BI products.
There are a large number of adapters for many databases and data types already included with the product. The fact that the Talend IDE is based on Eclipse IDE, also makes it easy for developers who already use the Eclipse IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is a bit memory and processor intensive. So expect there to be some lag on older machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It was easy to add custom code to the data flows to get specific use cases accomplished without purchasing other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I first checked Talend out to solve a specific case of performing ETL work quickly without the knowledge of Map Reduce on Hadoop. Since Talend had integration components for Hadoop and has a nice interface, I felt we should give it a try. It was extremely difficult to get this to work the "first" time. After a few days of searching I was finally able to get it to work. Once it worked it worked perfectly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
First There a lots and lots of connector available for each and every task needed to be performed in real production environment.
Second, there is lot of help/solution available in internet when stuck somewhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
for new developers like me who don't have java background sometime its very difficult to debug issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Talend's ability to interface with various datasources and manipulate them via a graphic interface is extremely powerful. Being able to add java code is also a great plus.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Talend's support is very weak, as you might expect from an open-source platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy to use nice graphical development interface helps speedup the process of developing data integration job design. Lots of connectors and important thing is open source tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
some times installation is difficult. Plenty of documentation available. But some times felt over whelming in finding related issues. Overall it may not be a big deal since any kind of similar tools are always complex and its worth while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy visualization of workflows ; fast implementations (just drag and drop) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
-no "subversion", hard to work with co-workers
-components are buggy, sometimes need to write native Java code rather than using some components
-context variables are "global", not under the scope of each job.
-need to export and compile every jobs one by one when i change something in a subjob, which is shared by these jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
My teams have used Data Integrator to retrieve data from a variety of sources (XML files, multiple flavors of SQL Databases databases, CSV files, etc...) and load them into a unified database for reporting purposes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Hard question to answer given the beautiful product. At times the config panel has been a little challenging but that may be more of an operator knowledge gap than a shortcoming of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
very intuitive user interface, simple drag and drop, full functionality to connect to hadoop data sources and run mapreduce jobs, good logging and feedback on errors. easy to customerize Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
only run on certain platforms, no failure restart features, documentation is not straight forward, needs to guess and test. runs slower than I would like, probably will hit performance threshold when larger dataset is used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The UI gives a quicker understanding of the integration process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Less user communities, since it is not as popular probably ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like that it's an easily extendable product that has tons of accessible product documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is a bit cumbersome to use, right click functionality is subpar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.