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Virtualization has improved query speed and cost savings but proof of concept remains unclear
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
I saw a demo showing that Denodo doesn't require any storage and the query performance is very fast. Denodo has a virtualizing feature that eliminates the need for storage and allows for better query planning, resulting in faster performance than ever before.
Denodo's virtualization feature is beneficial for many siloed databases as it links them well, making it useful.
Denodo has positively impacted my organization through cost savings. Saving time and resources is important to me when discussing Denodo. The fast query performance of Denodo means saving time.
What needs improvement?
If Denodo could make the POC period more solid and clear so that more people can try using it, I think that would help significantly.
It would be better if Denodo could clearly explain to customers what advantages virtualization technology has over general other data warehouse technologies.
I don't have anything more I want for Denodo beyond what I've already mentioned.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've worked in this field for five years.
What was our ROI?
I want to exit this investment in Denodo as I haven't seen a return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I'm not sure about Denodo's pricing or any setup costs and licensing. I don't know about the pricing of Denodo yet.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I compare Denodo with other solutions and I don't know which is the best.
I would advise others looking into using Denodo to compare it with other solutions and ask more questions about the virtualization feature.
What other advice do I have?
We only have a business relationship with Denodo as a customer.
I am interested in being a reference for Denodo. Denodo should not contact me if they have any questions or comments about my review.
Please use an anonymous name when publishing my review. I don't want to use my real company name in the review as we are just comparing this solution.
My review rating for Denodo is 7.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Good product to use but needs improvement in some areas
What do you like best about the product?
1) High range of sources and targets are supported.
2) It makes data analysis so simple as you could do a lot with only using SQL.
3) Good range of pre-defined functions.
2) It makes data analysis so simple as you could do a lot with only using SQL.
3) Good range of pre-defined functions.
What do you dislike about the product?
1) GUIs for Monitor and scheduling applications need a revamp.
2) Formatting of VQLs in Virtual Data port needs to be looked upon. VQLs format in a single line in spite of user forming a beautifully format query.
2) Formatting of VQLs in Virtual Data port needs to be looked upon. VQLs format in a single line in spite of user forming a beautifully format query.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data Analysis:
I have been using Denodo to read data from a variety of sources like Enterprise Datawarehouse, Cloud services and third party APIs. Denodo eliminates the need for lengthy ETL processes and makes analysis very easy.
Easy solution build:
Even when a solution needs to be built using all these sources, we could leverage Denodo to be used as a source and process it in a different framework.
Time-saving:
By bringing all sources to one place, Denodo helps ion reducing development time by a huge percentage. ETL needs proper procedures to be setup and company regulations mean it would take months to move data. Using a data virtualization tool reduces that time to minuites.
I have been using Denodo to read data from a variety of sources like Enterprise Datawarehouse, Cloud services and third party APIs. Denodo eliminates the need for lengthy ETL processes and makes analysis very easy.
Easy solution build:
Even when a solution needs to be built using all these sources, we could leverage Denodo to be used as a source and process it in a different framework.
Time-saving:
By bringing all sources to one place, Denodo helps ion reducing development time by a huge percentage. ETL needs proper procedures to be setup and company regulations mean it would take months to move data. Using a data virtualization tool reduces that time to minuites.
Good tool but the interface is not user-friendly
What do you like best about the product?
The communication with many other systems e.g. Snowflake
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface can be better and more intuitive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We provide views for other departments
Recommendations to others considering the product:
No
It is good tool when we need abstraction of business logic layer.
What do you like best about the product?
➦Performance of tool.
➦The caching feature is useful but for that the documentation is complex.
➦Connecting to wide variety of databases are compatible and easy to use.
➦Handling API endpoints are easy as compare to other tools.
➦The caching feature is useful but for that the documentation is complex.
➦Connecting to wide variety of databases are compatible and easy to use.
➦Handling API endpoints are easy as compare to other tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
➦Complex concept like scheduler and caching should have good simpler documentation.
➦Administration training material is somewhat similar, but there are different exam quetions.
➦Administration training material is somewhat similar, but there are different exam quetions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hiding the underlying business logic while serving multiple vendors.
A new learning in data virtualization
What do you like best about the product?
As a test analyst, it’s a new learning in the journey of testing data virtualization , governance and accesses specially when working on a project which needs to be GDPR complaint.
What do you dislike about the product?
Certain configuration and integration with on premises takes longer time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps in dealing with larger set of data from anywhere .
Good Tool for Data Discovery
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to play with data, create views, and different formals of data like RDBMS sources as well as flat files, xml , json and web services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to add more functionalities to make it a more powerful tool to be used as a Data Governance tool.
* Portal to defines roles and access, then Data stewards will just love the tool.
* Portal to defines roles and access, then Data stewards will just love the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Used to provide End to End Enterprise Data Lineage
2. Create a Business Glossary
3. Create a Data Catalog
4. Used by Analysed for Data Discovery
5. Tagging Data attributes with tags such as Personal Information, Metadata fields etc
2. Create a Business Glossary
3. Create a Data Catalog
4. Used by Analysed for Data Discovery
5. Tagging Data attributes with tags such as Personal Information, Metadata fields etc
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good Tool, Has limited capabilities for Data Governance, Can be also used with limited capabilities for MDM platform
My feed back on Denodo
What do you like best about the product?
integration between application, web services, security of objects.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still denodo using Derby DB internally, no query support for Derby from external application. Denodo monitoring writing logs to any other RDBMS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security and Denodo Data catalog gives UI to metadata exposure to users and relationship between objects using associations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
1. Denodo doesn’t supports Athena for Cache.
2. No clustering support. We have built two nodes in production with ELB, we need to sync code in two servers separately.
3. Denodo 7 is on Derby DB, which is not good for performance and no parallel commit. Our current production server replication to new server takes 4 hours for import.
4. No support for External db where we can keep Denodo metadata some Relational database. I come to know that in Denodo 8, we will get this future.
5. Denodo Monitoring logs writing to db is having issues, support team is working on this for 2 months didn’t get resolution on this. Denodo Monitoring tools are not up to the mark.
2. No clustering support. We have built two nodes in production with ELB, we need to sync code in two servers separately.
3. Denodo 7 is on Derby DB, which is not good for performance and no parallel commit. Our current production server replication to new server takes 4 hours for import.
4. No support for External db where we can keep Denodo metadata some Relational database. I come to know that in Denodo 8, we will get this future.
5. Denodo Monitoring logs writing to db is having issues, support team is working on this for 2 months didn’t get resolution on this. Denodo Monitoring tools are not up to the mark.
My poc on Denodo
What do you like best about the product?
Caching is the best feature I think makes denodo stand out
What do you dislike about the product?
No inmemory caching, this would have made denodo way more faster
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connect to various data warehouses and end applications to build a single data model
Denodo - used by my company for regular reporting
What do you like best about the product?
It does not allow you to make an error - you are not allowed to save a sql which does not make sense;
views and vql options- you can write code as well as 'build' it via visualisation
views and vql options- you can write code as well as 'build' it via visualisation
What do you dislike about the product?
it is suggested to creat many simple views. sometimes when there are multiple views it is hard to find where improvement or adjustment to your 'code' should be made
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
regular reporting to clients on their product performance; the reports need to be outomated - easy XML extraction
Recommendations to others considering the product:
allow time for implementation Denodo - do not rush without adjusting it to the business need
Solid product for large enterprises
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about denodo is the ability to scale fast. Because everything is a view the ability to create many abstraction layers across many disparate data source becomes very easy appose to other semantic layer development tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far I have found the UI for the vdp admin tools not the best layout and navigating has been a little challenging compared to other dbms tools. That being said we are on version 7 and version 8 from a demonstration we had with the vendors have been greatly enhanced from a UX/UI perspective.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a very large enterprise and are blending data across the enterprise. What denodo has helped us achieve is both federated and non federated data with the same reusable data structures. We accomplish this buy creating one off final interface for specific applications. This greatly reduces development time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A big pro of Denodo is easy of sharing of data across the enterprise. A big downside of denodo is it not a replacement for a COTS or Custom ETL tool. It can handle low level data cleansing and wrangling pretty well but does not perform heavy ETL well. That being said if most of your data reporting needs are real time pulls from data sources with data in the format-ish you want you will be fine.
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