Matillion
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Features
41 features across 23 categories
AI(3)
AI prompt component to leverage Large Language Models in pipelines for handling complex and unstructured data
Virtual data engineers that partner with your team to build pipelines, automate tedious tasks, and accelerate delivery of trusted data using plain language prompts
Enrich LLMs with enterprise data using Retrieval Augmented Generation capabilities through vector data stores
Architecture(1)
Easily manage tasks across multiple tenants with access control, provisioning, and system maintenance
Cloud Platform Integration(3)
Native integration with AWS cloud platform
Native integration with Databricks for optimized data loading and transformation
Native integration with Snowflake for optimized performance and ability to load data directly into Snowflake
Code Support(3)
High-code SQL IDE that automatically checks all SQL statements for errors
Execute Python scripts directly within Snowflake account using the Snowpark service to reduce pipeline bottlenecks
Ability to write and execute code in SQL, Python, and dbt with native orchestration through Matillion
Community(1)
Community collaboration platform to share best practices, custom connectors, dbt packages, JDBC drivers, and reusable job templates
Connectivity(3)
No-code REST API and visual Designer to quickly build and manage custom connectors to any data source
Custom connectors built based on customer requests that are not in the library and can be delivered in days
Library of hundreds of pre-configured connectors to ingest data from any source including ERP, CRM, HRIS, SaaS systems, and spreadsheets
Data Governance(3)
End-to-end data lineage tracking from source to output to optimize pipelines and troubleshoot efficiently
Automatically tag all data with correct metadata upon loading into Databricks
Integration with top data catalogs such as Collibra and Alation
Data Integration(1)
Enrich data in the Cloud Data Platform and push that data back to operational systems
Data Loading(3)
Ingest data into cloud data warehouse in minutes with pre-built or custom data connectors
Maintain data integrity by capturing change events in real time with no performance impact
Build pipelines capturing and processing real-time changes to data
Data Quality(1)
Validate and sample data interactively during pipeline development
Data Transformation(1)
Execute dbt core transformations within Matillion's PipelineOS without needing other infrastructure
Deployment(1)
Deploy on your own hosted Agent infrastructure in addition to full SaaS deployment
Documentation(1)
Automatically annotate data pipelines with context and documentation to enhance collaboration
Integration(2)
Unify role-based access control across Databricks workspaces and orchestrate notebooks from within Matillion
RESTful API for flexible integrations with data quality, governance, and orchestration tools
Orchestration(2)
Automate and schedule data pipelines based on custom parameters at set times and intervals
Operating system for pipelines that dynamically scales by distributing individual pipeline tasks across multiple stateless containers
Performance(1)
Generates native SQL to Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS while leveraging those platforms for improved performance and processing
Pipeline Building(1)
Intuitive visual designer to drag and drop components into a canvas to assemble complex data pipelines without extensive coding
Pricing(1)
Pay only for pipeline execution and task hours, designed to scale with pipeline execution, team size, and project complexity
Reliability(1)
Keep Matillion running even if components temporarily fail through clustered instances or full SaaS deployment
Reusability(1)
Library of prebuilt transformations and orchestrations that can be bundled and shared across organization
Scalability(1)
Scale with unlimited developer users, admin users, projects, and environments
Security(5)
Track and report all user actions with configurable retention periods
Enhanced security with multi-factor authentication support
Dedicated private connectivity route between your VPC and the service
Role-based access control with permissions based on groups and users
Built-in SSO support with custom SSO available in Scale tier
Version Control(1)
Native Git integration allowing version control, collaboration, and management of pipelines from within Matillion
Pricing
Developer
- ✓1 developer user
- ✓Unlimited projects
- ✓Pre-built connectors
- ✓Low-code canvas + SQL/Python
- ✓Built-in Git repository
- ✓Access to low-code canvas
- ✓SQL / Python components
- ✓Full SaaS Deployment
- ✓Custom connectors
- ✓Real-time validation and sampling components
- ✓Community support
Teams
Popular- ✓5 developer users
- ✓Unlimited projects
- ✓Unlimited admin users
- ✓Pre-built connectors
- ✓Low-code canvas + SQL/Python
- ✓Built-in Git repository
- ✓Access to low-code canvas
- ✓SQL / Python components
- ✓Full SaaS Deployment
- ✓Built-in Git repository
- ✓Custom connectors
- ✓Real-time validation and sampling components
- ✓Audit log
- ✓Standard customer support
- ✓Service Level Agreement (with Annual subscription)
- ✓Built-in SSO only
- ✓90 days log retention
Scale
- ✓5 developer users
- ✓Unlimited admin users
- ✓Advanced security (custom SSO)
- ✓Hybrid cloud deployment
- ✓Data lineage tracking
- ✓Streaming change data capture
- ✓Extended log retention (180+ days)
- ✓Bring-your-own Git integration
- ✓Premium Support available
- ✓Plus all the features in Teams
- ✓Hybrid cloud deployment
- ✓Streaming change data capture pipelines
- ✓Lineage
- ✓Built-in + custom SSO
- ✓180 days log retention (365 days available)
- ✓Service Level Agreement (with Annual subscription)
- ✓PrivateLink (available as add-on)
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Buying Matillion saves ~$36,960 over 3 years vs building.
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Integrations
9 known integrations