Build Your Data Infrastructure: Airbyte vs. Matillion
Airbyte is the #1 platform for your Data AI use cases
"For TUI Musement, Airbyte cut development time in half and enabled dynamic customer experiences."
Andres Exner
DIRECTOR OF CUSTOMER HUB AND COMMON ANALYTICS
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What data leaders say about us
"For TUI Musement, Airbyte cut development time in half and enabled dynamic customer experiences"
André Exner
Director Customer hub
“Airbyte saved us years, freeing us to focus on user value, not infra.”
Chase Zieman
Chief Data Officer
"Saved 10% of marketing budget with Airbyte, enabling reinvestment in marketing for higher ROI."
Konrad Schlatte
Data Engineer
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Why Choose Airbyte Over Matillion?
See how Airbyte stacks up against Matillion in terms of vision, use cases, connectors, deployment models, pricing, AI pipelines, and more.
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| Focus | ELT as a first step. Reverse-ETL coming in 2023. | Data ingestion, data transformation, and business intelligence. |
| Pricing | Cost effective Capacity-based pricing for Enterprise & Team versions and Volume-based pricing for Cloud edition. | Based on the number of Virtual Core Hours used. |
| Sources | 550+ pre-built customizable connectors for both structured and unstructured sources. | More than 100. |
| Destinations | All data warehouses, lakes, databases, vector databases, LLMs, RAG and more. | All major data warehouses, lakes and databases. |
| Database replication | Full table and incremental via change data capture. Pricing adapted for this use case. | Full table and incremental via SELECT/replication key, timestamp or change data capture for AWS-hosted Matillion ETL instances. |
| Integration with data stack | Integrate deeply with Kubernetes, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, and dbt. Airbyte will soon integrate with Great Expectations, and more. Integrations can be contributed by the community. | No. |
| Support SLAs | Available | Available |
| Security certifications | SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR | GDPR |
| Vendor lock-in | Airbyte Core and Connectors are open source. | Annual contracts. Self-hosting implies a higher lock-in. |
| Purchase Process | Self-service or sales for Airbyte Cloud. Open-source edition deployable in minutes. | Sales only. |
| Customizability of connectors | User can edit any pre-built connectors and build new ones with Airbyte’s AI Connector Builder | No. |
| API | Available through Airbyte Cloud and Airbyte’s open-source edition. | No. |
Airbyte is the leading open data movement platform for the new AI revolution, while Stitch Data is the closed-source managed ETL solution for the modern data stack.
Airbyte is the only platform to address all your current and future needs
Benefits/USPs:
Modern GenAI workflows:
Streamline AI workflows with Airbyte: load unstructured data into vector stores like Pinecone, Weaviate, and Milvus. Supports RAG transformations with LangChain chunking and embeddings from OpenAI, Cohere, etc., all in one operation.
An Extensible Open-Source Standard
More than 1,000 developers contribute to Airbyte’s connectors, different interfaces (UI, API, Terraform Provider, Python Library), and integrations with the rest of the stack. Airbyte’s Connector Builder lets you edit or add new connectors in minutes.
Full Control & Security
Airbyte secures your data with cloud-hosted, self-hosted or hybrid deployment options. Single Sign-On (SSO) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) ensure only authorized users have access with the right permissions. Airbyte acts as a HIPAA conduit and supports compliance with CCPA, GDPR, and SOC2.
Fully Featured & Integrated
Airbyte automates schema evolution for seamless data flow, and utilizes efficient Change Data Capture (CDC) for real-time updates. Select only the columns you need, and leverage our dbt integration for powerful data transformations.
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Customer Success Stories: See Why They Chose Airbte
Apostol Tegko
Data Lead
Extensibility to cover all your organization’s needs
Airbyte has become our single point of data integration. We continuously migrate our connectors from our existing solutions to Airbyte as they became available, and extensibly leverage their connector builder on Airbyte Cloud.
Chase Zieman
Chief Data Officer
Reliable infrastructure to power your own product
Airbyte helped us accelerate our progress by years, compared to our competitors. We don’t need to worry about connectors and focus on creating value for our users instead of building infrastructure. That’s priceless. The time and energy saved allows us to disrupt and grow faster.
Alexis Weill
Data Lead
Extensibility, scalability and no vendor lock-in
We chose Airbyte for its ease of use, its pricing scalability and its absence of vendor lock-in. Having a lean team makes them our top criteria. The value of being able to scale and execute at a high level by maximizing resources is immense
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