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| Decision point | What Qlik states |
|---|---|
Deployment | Qlik Data Integration is client-managed and can be installed on-premises or as a virtual machine image in any location you choose. Qlik Cloud Data Integration is a Qlik-managed integration platform as a service (eiPaaS). |
Setup | Replication is set up in a graphical interface without manual coding, and target schemas are generated automatically from source metadata. |
Sources and targets | Databases such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Sybase and PostgreSQL; warehouses including Snowflake, Azure Synapse, Exadata, Teradata, IBM Netezza and Vertica; Databricks; AWS, Azure and Google Cloud; Apache Kafka, Confluent, Azure Event Hubs and AWS Kinesis; SAP and Salesforce; and mainframe IMS/DB, DB2 z/OS, RMS and VSAM. |
Monitoring | One interface to create data endpoints and to design and run replication tasks. Qlik says a single console can monitor tasks in the thousands with user-defined alerts and KPIs, and points to Qlik Enterprise Manager for this. |
Data transfer | Data is compressed and sent over multiple paths across a wide area network, with AES-256 encryption that Qlik describes as NSA approved. |
Evaluation | Qlik offers a free trial and a demo. |
Our take
Choose Qlik Replicate when changes in many enterprise databases, SAP or mainframe systems must flow continuously into warehouses, lakes or Kafka streams, and your team would rather configure replication tasks in an interface than write and maintain replication code.
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Comparisons
Where it stands out
CDC modes for different targets. Changes can be applied in the order they were committed to the source for strict referential integrity, grouped into batches for warehouse ingestion, loaded through native APIs for Snowflake, Azure Synapse and other MPP warehouses, or streamed as change records into message brokers such as Apache Kafka.
Light load on production systems. Qlik describes its technology as log based and zero footprint, and explains that log-based CDC reads the database's transaction log instead of querying tables, so every change is recorded in order with very little impact on the source.
Interface built for SAP. Qlik says Replicate reads and translates complex SAP formats, moves SAP application data to major databases, warehouses or Hadoop, and can create live Kafka messages from it for streaming analytics.
Large loads, by Qlik's account. Parallel threading handles big data loads, and Qlik says Replicate works across hundreds of sources and targets. In customer examples Qlik publishes, a global insurer cut its nightly batch load from 6–8 hours to under 10 minutes, and a Philips data scientist says Qlik loaded 37 million records into Amazon Redshift in less than an hour.
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Trade-offs to weigh
Confirm the product boundary. The deployment and monitoring options above carry other Qlik product names: Qlik Data Integration, Qlik Cloud Data Integration and Qlik Enterprise Manager. Ask Qlik which of them your purchase includes before you plan who runs what.
Check the support matrix, not the summary. The product page names example platforms by category and sends buyers to Qlik's support matrix for the complete list of connectivity options. Confirm each source and target you need there, especially mainframe and SAP systems.
Public signals
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Alternatives to Qlik Replicate
The reviewed substitutes for Qlik Replicate among the ETL platforms, and what would make each one the better answer.
Direct alternatives
Reviewed substitutes: products bought for the same job, where a team picks one.
- StreamSets
- Qlik Replicate and StreamSets keep data flowing from source systems to targets as it changes, for analytics and operational use. Qlik Replicate centers on replicating and synchronizing data across major databases and warehouses, while StreamSets, now an IBM product, centers on building streaming pipelines in a graphical interface across hybrid and multicloud setups.Applies to: Choosing between two products of the same kind for one job.
Other approaches
A different approach to the same problem. Each substitutes only for the workload named beside it.
- Informatica Cloud
- The trade-off is that the available product information emphasizes replication and streaming rather than Informatica Cloud’s wider data-quality, master-data-management, and API-led-integration scope. **Qlik Replicate** is universal data replication software focused on ingestion, replication, and real-time change data capture.Applies to: Its major advantage over Informatica Cloud is specialization: teams that need captured database changes delivered as live streams for analytics or microservices get a purpose-built CDC approach, including real-time SAP application data for big-data analytics.
- Fivetran
- Fivetran and Qlik Replicate both replicate operational databases into warehouses and lakes, copying changes incrementally instead of reloading whole tables. Fivetran is a managed service that also covers SaaS applications and event streams; Qlik Replicate is replication software a team runs itself, with a wide range of database sources and targets, streaming targets included.Applies to: Replicating operational databases into a warehouse or lake. Fivetran stands in where a managed service and SaaS sources matter; Qlik Replicate stands in where replication runs on the company's own infrastructure across many database sources and targets.
- Azure Data Factory
- Cloud-scale data integration service for building ETL and ELT pipelines with 100+ built-in connectors across Azure and hybrid environments.Applies to: real-time CDC, database replication, and synchronization workloads