# Talend Data Fabric Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Talend Data Fabric the right Data Governance solution for you? Explore 24 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/118978/Data-Integration/reviews --- Talend Data Fabric 4.3 (24) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/118978/Data-Integration/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Talend Data Fabric Ease of use 3.8 Customer Service 4.0 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews Madhankkumar S Senior Data EngineerTelecommunications, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Out of various data catalogue tools I have used , I find Talend data fabric is the best one as it has got great features and very easy to use !“ March 9, 2023 Ava H Senior Staff EngineerComputer Software, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The interface can sometimes feel a bit sluggish, and using some of the advanced features may require more technical expertise.“ September 24, 2024 Marie Jeanne E CEOInternet, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “What I liked most about this software is its security and integrity, its data quality...“ August 25, 2022 DG David G Infrastructure ArchitectHospital & Health Care, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Some task might not be as intuitive if you are only familiar with MSSQL based products.“ June 14, 2020 Nikhil D lead business consultantComputer Software, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Talend data fabric can run and integrated many batch jobs at the same time.“ August 27, 2020 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-24 of 24 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Ava H. Senior Staff Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Comprehensive Data Integration" September 24, 2024 5.0 Pros It provides a comprehensive platform for data integration, transformation, and governance. It makes connecting to multiple data sources easy. Cons The interface can sometimes feel a bit sluggish, and using some of the advanced features may require more technical expertise. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Data Modeller Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Enterprise Level Data Integration Software" January 26, 2020 4.0 Our big data projects are based on Talend platform for our pipeline processing. To handle the exception properly, we designed a complex multi-master handling process to make sure the runtime exception can be resumed automatically. Other than that, Talend fulfilled our needs properly and their support were cooperative and working hard. Pros 1\. Open source; 2. Full of transformations to support different scenarios; 3. Convenient designer/java code switching capability for troubleshooting; 4. Integrated with java, maven, nexus; 5. Integration support with Big Data and MDM. Cons 1\. When project is big, the designer is becoming slower and slower; 2. The exception handling not convenient. You can either let go the exception or stop the process, or using external controller to resume the applications. But you cannot customize the try catch block of the exception itself; 3. Nexus integration is buggy on talend 7. Alternatives considered [Informatica Big Data](https://www.capterra.com/p/145698/Big-Data/) Reason for choosing Talend Data Fabric 1\. Price; 2. Big data support; 3. Java friendly. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Sviluppatore Cloud & Mobile Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Use talend in the company to implement integrations between systems.Using both Web services and file" February 26, 2018 2.0 Pros Ease of learning. Development can be done by writing a few lines of code or in any case with very basic java knowledge. Graphically it is possible to write writes or readings in the database, writings or readings on file. Talend already provides default connectors with other systems. Such as Google Cloud, Excel, MySql, Oracle and many others. Cons The version for mac is horrible. Sometimes you have to use "Ctrl" sometimes "Cmd" is really badly done. In my experiences the speed of learning clashes with the consumption of resources and the slowness of the interfaces. An interface made in pure Java requires more time to implement but is definitely more performing. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Data Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cloud based service for best data governance and cataloging " March 9, 2023 5.0 best data governance and cataloging in the market , with the ease of fast development. Pros Out of various data catalogue tools I have used , I find Talend data fabric is the best one as it has got great features and very easy to use ! Cons The product differentiation within Talend could be more clear since there are various Talend services and customer might find it difficult to find what to choose. Review Source Marie Jeanne E. CEO Internet Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Talent data fabric best data integration software." August 25, 2022 4.0 Talend data fabric allowed me to launch Data Driven initiatives, to share and Monêtier the data... Pros What I liked most about this software is its security and integrity, its data quality... Cons What I liked least is the fact that operational efficiency is not yet perfect... Review Source CC Chris C. CTO Computer Networking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "When you need to beam your data from one database or format to any other format or database" February 18, 2017 4.0 Talend Data Integration is an open source application, available in free and paid premium versions, which saves an enormous amount of time and provides you with the ability to setup and automate most of the work needed to sync data from one application or database to another application or database. It's easy to drag an drop lines between pre built components for almost every data base or format or data source known to mankind, click automap to map the corresponding fields. The paid version is great because of the level of support provided by the company, plus they also offer hosting and team collaboration features to let a group of people share with their fellow team members any recipes for extracting and loading data. Pros Talend Data Integration has a great set of features. Plus, the company behind the software has earned one of the best reputations and most respect in the realm of data integration and big data. The software user interface is very good to great and takes a short time to explore and get used to it. There is an online community for discussing with other users, or plenty of consultants and developers available if you want to outsource that work. Based on java, it's industrial strength and and army of java pros is available if and when you want. Cons Talend is a Windows desktop app running on top of the Eclipse development environment, so you need a several hundred MB of ram and disk space to run the application comfortably. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Intelligence Consultant Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent Data Integration tool with support for many Heterogeneous Systems :Oracle, AWS , Big Data" April 29, 2018 5.0 Pros 1) Extensive Components to support Integration with multiple systems: Oracle ,AWS, Big Data 2) Does have Data Quality , Data Preparation , MDM , ESB Integration suite Cons 1) Talend is completely Java based and have seen stability issues 2) Need to have the option to convert Data profiling analysis to Talend Job. Review Source PK Pradeep K. ETL dev Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best for data wrangling in ETL for any process" April 25, 2019 4.0 I have solved many business problems and provided a necessary solution using Talend which helped in integrating multiple programs in to one place, getting to know more on the Big data is must which has more and more useful things Pros This tool has custom components which helps in solve all the business problems like TikaPDF extractor and many more also the integration between other components is very easy Cons Most of the powerfull components are paid cant find in custom components and also sometimes it very hard to run complex ETL jobs gets slow in V7 Review Source VR Verified Reviewer lead business consultant Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "review of talend data fabric" August 27, 2020 3.0 I have used talend data fabric is working with database development and loading batch jobs. My department is using this software less and less now. Pros Talend data fabric can run and integrated many batch jobs at the same time. it is effective when a lot of loads need to be completed. Cons Talend data fabric is oftentimes very slow. It is also very particular. Everything step has to be exact or else the whole program will spew out errors. Review Source Reinaldo O. Principal DBA Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "I'm using Talend Open Studio from 2 years now and its perfect to integrate files with your BDD." July 27, 2018 5.0 I've done many applications with this ETL in order to read from a file and write the data in a BDD (one or many BDD to write in the same job). Very good software Pros Easy to use No need to "hard" code in order to have your job done Easy to integrate with many technologies of BDD (MySQL, noSql and many more) Easy to integrate with many kind of files (csv, xls, xlsx) There's a lot of forum with people that's willing to help if you know how to ask Cons There's a lot of components, in order to manage everything in this software you will have to do to many formations. Review Source FB Felix B. ETL consultant, developer, Business Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Talend Open Studio DI" August 7, 2016 5.0 I've been working with Talend Open Studio Data Integration for more than 5 years, in easy and complex projects that include data extractions, transformations, and load. Pros You can download a community version and test it for as long as you want, then decide to switch to a paid enterprise version, or keep using the community without cost. There is an respectable list of components available, also an additional list of components provided by users and developers called "Talend Exchange" can be added to your projects. Easy to learn, there are videos, manuals, and forum. Very responsive user community. Cons Need more marketing as a company. Review Source AF Allan F. data analyst Mining & Metals Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Review of Talend DI and ESB .. and TAC" December 6, 2016 4.0 Have used Talend pretty heavily for past 5 years .. Medium size gas and oil company .. ~2500 employees .. Overall pretty good product .. Like the Admin console to overview process results and run adhoc re-runs. Java based .... Eclipse under the covers .. can migrate work from Free studio to Integration suite .. SVN usage .. Pros flexible. Can grow number of processes ... 200+ .. Can start with free version .. Has admin console. Can be hosted by either Linux servers ... or windows servers .. Cons need to know some Java ... this isn't really a con I guess ... support fairly good ... might expect even more from support .. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Monitoring And Evaluation Officer Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Its an efficiently and effectively manage my data sets." May 8, 2018 4.0 Efficiently and effectively way to manage Variant data Pros This App has created a reputation for your company since it has enabled users to integrate and manage large volumes of data therefore reducing their workload Cons The need to refresh on Java, though on the other hand it has made me remember a few concepts that would soon fade away from my mind. Review Source DG David G. Infrastructure Architect Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Talend is flexible and can do many task for Data Engineers" June 14, 2020 5.0 Talend was the go to for our team since it allowed easy access to other Data Bases systems as Oracle and no-sql db's as well. Pros I like that it is based on open source technology. The Integrated development environment (IDE) is Eclipse based so if you are familiar with Java IDE you will feel right at home. Cons If you are primarily a Windows workshop there will be a learning curve to moving around Talend's IDE. Some task might not be as intuitive if you are only familiar with MSSQL based products. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Sviluppatore Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Useful, fast and vary, that's what you need! " February 8, 2018 5.0 Pros We integrated it with Salesforce and many other services through its connectors. It's very fast and easy to use even if you have to get used to it, and it might not be easy at first. Cons It can become incredibly complicated to handle complex fluxes, and if you are facing issue or getting unexpected results it can be quite hard to debug and find the problem. Review Source anthony E. Business Analyst for Data Analytics Consumer Electronics Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Best cross database ETL tool" October 8, 2018 5.0 Talend help us to perform ETL task between different databases. This help us to see more opportunities from our data. Pros I like the most on this software is the capability to perform ETL job on different database type like MSSQL to MySQL, RDBMS to NoSQL and even on Big Data platforms such as hadoop. Cons I dont like on this software is the IDE. It not beginner friendly. Review Source Keval M. software odoo developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Data integration software with a lot more feature" December 11, 2019 4.0 At the end of the day successfully migrate data in from one database to another which is hosted on server. Linking of relational tables are easy than expected. Pros This software provide you ease of access for usage. Here you can easily communicate with 2 database with weather it is on local or server. You can communicate both with different features as well. Apart from that you can also easily transfer with just UI. Cons One of the main issue is if you have security key rather than password than there is a lot more external process needed to connect. Also you can only connect 2 database at a time for data transfer. Review Source Siddharth .. Software Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Talend" November 28, 2018 5.0 Pros Talend can be used for big data projects so that is really helpful it can handle large amount of data set Cons Talend is not that user friendly so it's GUI should be improved and improvised. Review Source Ankit G. Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "User-friendly ETL Tool for transforming Raw Data" January 10, 2021 4.0 Pros 1\. Our organization is using it to transform and integrate file data into redshift. It is supporting multiple data connectors as components 2. We use to load the transformed data into reporting tables within less time Cons 1\. It is only an ETL tool and reporting is not supported as of today 2. It has to be deployed over the server Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Lead Data Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Telend is powerful software with cheaper cost" October 8, 2018 4.0 overall I can suggest it to use it is most powerful and cheaper solution. Pros Easy interface. custom components are allowed to extend the functionality as per project needs. Designing and developing jobs and schedules are easy and pretty straightforward. Cons Source control with git and integrating with Git is not that easier. found some runtime issues which support took long time to resolve it. Review Source AB Adam B. Used the software for: ### "Talend - Far above its Peers" November 3, 2016 5.0 Talend is phenomenal at bridging the data gap between two disparate (or like) data sources. One way we've used Talend in the past was to bring data from Marketo into NetSuite, and one way we're using it now is to bring data from SFDC, Netsuite (for Finance) and Marketo into Tableau for optimized reporting. Within Marketo, I've personally used Talend to update campaign flow steps in bulk, that otherwise would have been manual. Huge time saver. Pros unified platform, predictable pricing, and plethora of connectors Cons That I didn't think of the idea. Review Source KW Kevin W. Web Developer Apparel & Fashion Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Useful for first foray into big data" February 16, 2019 3.0 Pros Just dipping my toe in to the water of possibilities with big data. Easy to connect with my data source and warehouse. Support has been great. Cons Can be very cumbersome at first to learn. Queries get complex fast. Review Source fL frank L. Used the software for: ### "talend for big data" October 5, 2016 4.0 easy to use , great performance, used it for our internal datawarehouse. easy to build and connect to our data sources such as salesforce, netsuite, marketo. Review Source xZ xiao Z. bi developer Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "overall good" February 23, 2018 4.0 Pros It has free version and can do majority of the work. Overall easy to work with. Has forum and community support. Has many components. Cons It is not always so intuitive, need to learn java, but at the same time, it is flexible. Nothing bad to say. 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