About the Services
Mulesoft
MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform is an integration platform that connects data, devices, and applications within cloud and/or on-premises environments. It was founded in 2006 and in 2018 was acquired by Salesforce. The platform offers various services and components, such as Design Center, Exchange, Studio, Connectors, Management Center, and others. Overall, there are hundreds of pre-built connectors and templates used by over 1600 organizations globally.
With the Anypoint Platform, companies can leverage a single integration point across any application. The service offers to create an infrastructure that supports multiple applications and the ability to scale out quickly. Mulesoft offers annual contracts depending on features and volume obtained.
Informatica
Informatica is an iPaaS platform offering solutions for enterprise sector with its data integration (ETL, ELT) and cloud management products. It was founded in 1993 and currently provides service for more than 5000 customers worldwide.
Informatica offers integration products for both cloud and on-premise cases. The most popular products are PowerCenter for on-premise and Intelligent Data Management Cloud platform. The platform works with consumption-based pricing model and offers free (limited) usage of several products.
Skyvia
Skyvia is a no-code cloud data integration platform which supports a big variety of data integration scenarios including ETL, ELT, Reverse ETL, bidirectional data sync, workflows automation, etc. It was created by Devart in 1997 to boost data-related performance: cloud data integration, backup and management.
Skyvia offers more than 140 ready-made data connectors for dozens of thousands of free users, including 1800+ paid customers. It's easy to use, offers drag-and-drop interface and suits business users and IT professionals as well. Skyvia has flexible pricing plans for each product, making it suitable for businesses of all sizes, from a small startup to an enterprise company. Also, Skyvia's freemium model allows users to try app features before deciding to complete purchase.
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| Focus | API Management and Integration platform. | Data Ingestion, ETL. | Data ingestion, ELT, ETL, reverse ETL. |
| Skill level | Complex coding. | Varies from low-code to high-code, depending on the product. | No code wizard. |
| Sources | 250+ | 180+ | 140+ |
| Destinations | Popular services, warehouses and databases. | Cloud, on-premises, mobile, and social data sources. | Any supported data sources, including databases, data warehouses, cloud apps and flat files. |
| Database replication | Incremental replication that depends upon manually written SELECT statements. | Full table; incremental via change data capture. | Full table and incremental via change data capture. |
| Ability for customers to add new data sources | Yes, for developers. | Yes, by Connector Toolkit Developer. | Yes, by request. |
| G2 customer satisfaction | 4.4 out of 5 564 reviews | 4.2 out of 5 428 reviews | 4.8 out of 5 157 Reviews |
| Peer Insights satisfaction | 4.3 194 ratings | 4.5 476 rating | 4.8 85 Ratings |
| Developer tools | Runtime Manager REST API, CloudHub API. | Informatica Developer Tool, REST API, Connector Toolkit | REST connector for data sources that have REST API. |
| Advanced ETL capabilities | A specific component of Anypoint Platform, DataWeave, provides powerful data integration with an easy to use graphical data mapping interface. | Visual ETL designer. | Visual ETL data pipeline designer with data orchestration capabilities |
| Compliance and security certifications | SOC 1, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR | SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, HIPAA / HITECH, GDPR, Privacy Shield. | HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS. |
| Purchase process | Requires a conversation with sales. | Requires conversation with sales. | Self-service or sales. |
| Vendor lock-in | Annual contracts. | Annual contracts. | Monthly or annual contracts. |
| Pricing | Volume-based and feature-based pricing. | Consumption-based pricing. | Volume-based and feature-based pricing. Freemium model allows to start with a free plan. |
Connectors
Mulesoft
MuleSoft connects to over 250 data sources and provides various components to work with connectors. MuleSoft Anypoint Connectors (an extension for Mule runtime engine) with its prebuilt connectors allows to connect with endpoints, SaaS applications, databases (ODBC, JDBC protocols).
The Mule SDK for developers (successor to the Anypoint Connector Devkit) allows creating a SOAP or Java SDK-based connectors. In addition, the MuleSoft platform offers developers to create, certify, and place their connectors within its public marketplace.
Informatica
Informatica offers 180+ pre-built connectors for cloud, on-premises applications, platforms, databases, and flat files. There are such connectors as JSON Target, OData, and REST V2 for REST API and OData service. The platform also provides Informatica Connector Toolkit for developers to create new connectors.
Skyvia
Skyvia offers more than 140 connectors and the number is rapidly growing. Among these connectors there are CRM, accounting, email marketing, e-commerce, human resources, marketing automation, payment processing, product management, all major databases and DWH, flat files, etc. Customers can also leave request for creating a new data connector and Skyvia will consider building it without additional payment.
Transformation
Mulesoft
MuleSoft transforms source data to fit into the destination data schema. The platform offers two ways to handle data transformation and also provides developers with ability to write custom processors using scripting languages like Groovy and JavaScript.
The first option for data transformation is by graphically constructing data mapping. It has its limits but it's also possible to check how the transformation will affect data by applying sample input data. Another way is for users to create the data transformation by writing DataWeave code that is written in a special language created by MuleSoft for accessing and transforming data.
Informatica
Informatica offers various data transformation capabilities like aggregation, cleansing, masking, filtering, parsing, ranking, and more. The service processes data transformations in real time or batch and applies Apache Velocity transformation scripts to convert hierarchical inputs like JSON or XML into JSON, XML, or text output without flattening the data.
Skyvia
Skyvia is a full-featured ETL service that allows building data integrations with powerful transformations between multiple data sources. It is a no code solution with support for data splitting, complex expressions and formulas, lookups, and more.
Skyvia's Data Flow and Control Flow components can be used for building more advanced ETL data pipelines with support for multiple connectors and additional features like modifying the data, flowing through them, splitting flows of records into multiple outputs, or modifying data flow variables.
Support
Mulesoft
Mulesoft offers online, email, or telephone support for its Enterprise clients. The amount of support hours available for client depends on the pricing plan. Support cases depends on their severity and help is available only in English. The platform provides extensive documentation, trainings and learning paths for different roles as well as certification courses (self-paced and instructor-led).
Informatica
Informatica offers three support levels for its customers and Informatica Network Portal. However, support is available only during local business hours and priority support is offered only for premium users.
Informatica also offers comprehensive documentation, portal with learning courses and certification training.
Skyvia
Skyvia offers free email, chat (on website or in app), and forum support for all customers. For paid customers there's also a phone support option. It also provides extensive documentation with lots of tutorials and user guides.
Pricing
Mulesoft
MuleSoft offers 30-day free trial. Pricing plans differ depending on the volume, features, and support levels included. Customers can get API Management and API Integration as independent solutions or combine the two to get the full stack. It's also possible to add more APIs and integrations to scale the capacity and functionality as needed.
Informatica
Informatica offers consumption-based pricing model for all its products: customers buy capacity on Informatica Processing Units (IPUs). Users can subscribe to a certain number of IPUs (based on forecast usage), which can then be used interchangeably across all its major data integration product lines. The service also provides two free plans with limited features (without transformations, API management, data governance, etc.) and no support.
Skyvia
Skyvia Data Integration is a freemium tool with an option to request a 14-day trial. Paid plans start from $19 per month. Pricing tiers (from Basic to Enterprise) vary by the number of successfully loaded records, frequency of scheduling and the inclusion of the advanced ETL features. There are no purchase commitments and customers are able to upgrade or downgrade at any time depending on their needs. A detailed comparison can be found here.