Most businesses have data stored in a variety of locations, from in-house databases to SaaS platforms. To get a full picture of their finances and operations, they pull data from all those sources into a data warehouse or data lake and run analytics against it. But they don't want to build and maintain their own data pipelines.

Fortunately, it’s not necessary to code everything in-house. Here's an comparison of two such tools, head to head.

About Hevo Data

Hevo Data is a cloud-based ETL platform.

About Stitch

Stitch Data Loader is a cloud-based platform for ETL — extract, transform, and load. More than 3,000 companies use Stitch to move billions of records every day from SaaS applications and databases into data warehouses and data lakes, where it can be analyzed with BI tools. Stitch is a Talend company and is part of the Talend Data Fabric.


Focus	Data ingestion, ETL	Data ingestion, ELT
Database replication	Full table; incremental via SELECT/replication key, timestamp, change data capture	Full table; incremental via change data capture or SELECT/replication keys
SaaS sources	About 30	More than 100
Ability for customers to add new data sources	No	Yes
Connects to data warehouses? Data lakes?	Yes / Yes	Yes / Yes
Transparent pricing	Yes	Yes
Support SLAs	Yes	Available
Purchase process	Options for self-service and talking with sales	Options for self-service or talking with sales. Also available from the AWS store.
Compliance, governance, and security certifications	HIPAA	HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2
Data sharing	No	Yes, through Talend Data Fabric
Vendor lock-in	Month to month or annual contracts	Month to month or annual contracts. Open source integrations
Developer tools	REST API	Import API, Stitch Connect API for integrating Stitch with other platforms, Singer open source project

Let's dive into some of the details of each platform.

Transformations

Hevo Data

Hevo offers preload transformations via code written in Python. Hevo can run transformation code for each event in the pipelines you set up. To perform transformations you must edit the properties of the event object received in the transform method as a parameter.

Stitch

Stitch is an ELT product. Within the pipeline, Stitch does only transformations that are required for compatibility with the destination, such as translating data types or denesting data when relevant. Stitch is part of Talend, which also provides tools for transforming data either within the data warehouse or via external processing engines such as Spark and MapReduce. Transformations can be defined in SQL, Python, Java, or via graphical user interface.

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Connectors: Data sources and destinations

Each of these tools supports a variety of data sources and destinations.

Hevo Data

Hevo supports about 40 integrations to SaaS platforms, databases, files, and BI and analytics tools. It supports 10 destinations, including Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Snowflake data warehouses; Amazon S3 data lakes; and PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB databases. Customers can request that the company build a new data source or destination, but no one outside of the company can build new ones or make improvements to existing ones.

Stitch

Stitch supports more than 100 database and SaaS integrationsas data sources, and eight data warehouse and data lake destinations. Customers can contract with Stitch to build new sources, and anyone can add a new source to Stitch by developing it according to the standards laid out in Singer, an open source toolkit for writing scripts that move data. Singer integrations can be run independently, regardless of whether the user is a Stitch customer. Running Singer integrations on Stitch’s platform allows users to take advantage of Stitch's monitoring, scheduling, credential management, and autoscaling features.

Support, documentation, and training

Data integration tools can be complex, so vendors offer several ways to help their customers. Online documentation is the first resource users often turn to, and support teams can answer questions that aren't covered in the docs. Vendors of the more complicated tools may also offer training services.

Hevo Data

Hevo provides support through Intercom online chat and via email. Documentation is comprehensive. The company doesn't provide training services.

Stitch

Stitch provides in-app chat support to all customers, and phone support is available for Enterprise customers. Support SLAs are available. Documentation is comprehensive and is open source — anyone can contribute additions and improvements or repurpose the content. Stitch does not provide training services.

Pricing

Hevo Data

Hevo provides two monthly pricing tiers: Starter ($499) and Business ($999), as well as a monthly Enterprise plan that allows for private hosting. Annual contracts that provide a 20% discount are available. The company offers a 7-day free trial.

Stitch

Stitch has pricing that scales to fit a wide range of budgets and company sizes. All new users get an unlimited 14-day trial. Standard plans range from $100 to $1,250 per month depending on scale, with discounts for paying annually. Enterprise plans for larger organizations and mission-critical use cases can include custom features, data volumes, and service levels, and are priced individually.

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