Denodo Reviews & Product Details

Denodo is a leader in data management. The award-winning Denodo Platform is the leading logical data management platform for transforming data to trustworthy insights and outcomes for all data-related initiatives across the enterprise, including AI and self-service. Denodo's customers in all industries all over the world have delivered trusted AI-ready and business-ready data in a third of the time and with 10x better performance than with lakehouses and other mainstream data platforms alone. The Denodo Platform includes the following capabilities: - A semantic layer, with semantic search and embedded data prep in a self-service data catalog. - Unified, real-time-updated data views without expensive replication or copying of data. - Native connectors to over 200 source systems, both cloud and on-premises - An AI SDK which implements metadata-driven RAG (retrieval augmented generation) to provide trusted data to AI agents. - Query acceleration, improving lakehouse performance by 10x while also reducing compute and storage costs. - Federated enterprise-wide governance and privacy compliance. - Greater automation of common data engineering tasks, with the AI-powered Denodo Assistant. Enterprises world-wide across every major industry have used Denodo to achieve greater business self-service and agility, improve operational visibility and efficiency, optimize the performance and cost of modern data infrastructure such as Lakehouses, and ensure success of their AI initiatives. Denodo now offers two options to meet these needs: the Denodo Platform, deployable in all Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba) and on-premises for full control, and Agora, our fully managed cloud service available on AWS, offering an entirely managed experience with the same rich data capabilities. Denodo provides a unique approach to data integration and management not found in any other platform. Denodo customers reported: 83% increase in business user productivity 67% reduction in time required to prepare data for AI 65% decrease in data delivery time vs. ETL 10x improvement in Lakehouse query performance compared to running queries directly resulting in an average three-year benefit of $6.8M, ROI of 408%, and payback within six months across customers.

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Verified User in Retail

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/17/2020

"denodo is a wonderful tool to interact different type of database on a single platform."

5/5

What do you like best about Denodo?

I found denodo very helpful while working on our product. Its features are great like able to connect all kind of database on a single platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Denodo?

For denodo i found all features very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/27/2019

"My feed back on Denodo"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Denodo?

Integration between application, web services, security of objects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Denodo?

Still Denodo using Derby DB internally, no query support for Derby from external application. Denodo monitoring writing logs to any other RDBMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Denodo:

1. Denodo doesn’t support 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Denodo 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/17/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Denodo is a high end platform"

4/5

What do you like best about Denodo?

It is so helpful beacuse, by using we can connect to different types of files..databases etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Denodo?

Nothing yet.bevuase till now i not faced any issue with this technolou Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brannon D.

Software Developer 2

Research

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/19/2019

"Solid product for large enterprises"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Denodo?

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 sources becomes very easy compared to other semantic layer development tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Denodo?

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 has been greatly enhanced from a UX/UI perspective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Denodo:

A big pro of Denodo is the ease of sharing data across the enterprise. A big downside of Denodo is it is 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Denodo 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 by creating one-off final interfaces for specific applications. This greatly reduces development time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/16/2020

"Amazing and easy to use"

4/5

What do you like best about Denodo?

The easy way denodo has to create interfaces using SQL despite the backend technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Denodo?

Design editor not much flexible compared to other tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/26/2020

"Good tool but the interface is not user-friendly"

3/5

What do you like best about Denodo?

The communication with many other systems e.g. Snowflake Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Denodo?

The interface can be better and more intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Utkarsh K.

Associate Instructor

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/2/2019

"Worked as a data visualization intern in Indiana University Bloomington"

4/5

What do you like best about Denodo?

The easy interface saves a lot of time. Also, it is helpful in creating complex relational models easily. The tutorials are very nice too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Denodo?

Sometimes, the installation is not very easy and issues occur. Also, caching options can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Denodo:

Helpful when merging a lot of data from multiple sources, especially, if there are various datastores in the organization and cross-organizational analytics and reporting are needed. It also has good scheduling options and easy interface to define joins and schemas for tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Denodo solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used denodo to create aggregate tables over data from multiple sources including oracle, flat files, MS SQL etc. AS mentioned, the easy interface lets you design the relational model very easily. It is also very convenient to define constraint relationships. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankit K.

System Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/4/2019

"Good Tool for Data Discovery"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Denodo?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Denodo?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Denodo:

Good Tool, Has limited capabilities for Data Governance, Can be also used with limited capabilities for MDM platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Denodo 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/29/2019

"Using Denodo"

5/5

What do you like best about Denodo?

Ability to virtualize the database for the Application Layer, We can just use Denodo to connect to any data providing system and just make that data available to the applications that just are interested in the data and not want to worry about the database they are interested in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Denodo?

To be honest, I have not used enough to tell its weakness but I think it would be great if we can increase cache that will allow Denodo to save some time going again to database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Denodo:

I think if you are going to use Denodo for data virtualization then it is a Great tool to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Denodo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mainly the problems that we are trying to solve is allowing the database layer to be disintegrated from the application layer so that if in future we want to change the database we can do that easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Syl D.

Data Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/20/2019

"Denodo - used by my company for regular reporting"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Denodo?

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Denodo?

it is suggested to create many simple views. sometimes when there are multiple views it is hard to find where improvement or adjustment to your 'code' should be made Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Denodo:

allow time for implementation Denodo - do not rush without adjusting it to the business need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Denodo solving and how is that benefiting you?

regular reporting to clients on their product performance; the reports need to be automated - easy XML extraction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.