Coalesce.io is used as a main platform for developing ETL pipelines.
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Streamlined Data Warehousing
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Coalesce for simplifying the development process by modularizing code into reusable standard and custom node types, which enforces consistency and reduces development time. I like the combination of simplicity and flexibility, as I can quickly start building nodes and prototyping, while also having the flexibility of custom node types for complex use cases. The standard prebuilt node types are easy to use and applicable to a majority of data warehousing use cases without needing much configuration. I find it pretty easy to set up Coalesce - all I need is a simple connection to Snowflake and Git, and I can start working quickly. The documentation makes these configurations easy to follow.
What do you dislike about the product?
In the future it would be great to have additional options and capabilities to work side by side with data modeling tools. For example, being able to use the data modeling tool to create the logical and physical data model, and allowing Coalesce to easily work within the data model that is deployed to Snowflake from the modeling tool rather than having to recreate the facts, dims, etc. directly in Coalesce.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coalesce simplifies my development process by modularizing code into reusable node types, ensuring consistency and reducing development time.
Bulk Editing and Modular Pipelines Make Building Workflows a Breeze
What do you like best about the product?
I like the bulk editing abilities the most. A close second is the modular feel when building pipelines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of online courses for features. There are webinars and quickstart guides but sometimes i just need a specific deep dive on node types when I'm building it from scratch for the first time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves generating code when building out entire data warehouses. I have so many features to pick from for just about any use case I have.
Effortless Data Transformation with Coalesce
What do you like best about the product?
I like Coalesce for its ease of use and organization, especially how it allows different workspaces for different developers. I also appreciate that all processes are stored in a GitHub repository. It's easy to use and maintain, and deploying and managing jobs and logs is straightforward. The integration feels like working on GitHub from my local machine, but with a nice UI that makes creating and maintaining pipelines and nodes much easier. The initial setup was easy and straightforward, even for those with less coding experience. Additionally, Coalesce provides more benefits and is more user-friendly compared to dbt, which we used before.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like an easy way to transform current SQL code that contains CTEs into one or many Coalesce nodes without the hard work or amount of time that it requires going into the original code and seeing how you can break that code to fit it in Coalesce nodes. Managing/storing environment and workspace credentials could definitely be improved. There have been many times that I have to go to Snowflake and copy and paste manually different sections instead of maybe having a drop-down menu based on my Snowflake access. Also, many times I have to input my credentials again because they got wiped.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coalesce to transform data from Snowflake and solve data transformation problems, making it easy to create any tables/views needed and generate reports.
Coalesce Supercharges Data Warehousing with No‑Code Speed and Best Practices
What do you like best about the product?
I've worked with most major data transformation tools over the last 15 years, and Coalesce is hands-down my favorite among them all. We're able to deliver faster data integration, quality, and warehouse projects internally and for our clients because of Coalesce's no-code / low-code interface. What previously would take several data engineers now can be delivered with 1 or 2, and in less time.
Coalesce writes complex transformations for you and with proper best practices, allowing you to stand up an integrated data warehouse in significantly less time. The lineage feature makes it easy to troubleshoot errors and trace the root cause. The ability to propagate columns changes to downstream transformations with a few clicks saves hours of time per task. Using the software development best practices makes deployment fast and reliable. Onboarding new team members is very efficient - if they know SQL and understand data pipelines, then Coalesce is the most effective tool to quickly bring new team members up-to-speed.
It's also flexible enough to easily migrate from other platforms because you can easily drop your code into their AI engine and it will create the transformations for you. Whether it's a new project or moving away from an existing technology, you can implement fast and efficiently.
On top of the tools amazing features, the sales and support team members are the most responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful compared to any other software vendor I've ever worked with.
Lastly, they continue to add new features based on real feedback from customers to ensure we're always getting the best value for our money. Coalesce is easily one of my favorite products.
Coalesce writes complex transformations for you and with proper best practices, allowing you to stand up an integrated data warehouse in significantly less time. The lineage feature makes it easy to troubleshoot errors and trace the root cause. The ability to propagate columns changes to downstream transformations with a few clicks saves hours of time per task. Using the software development best practices makes deployment fast and reliable. Onboarding new team members is very efficient - if they know SQL and understand data pipelines, then Coalesce is the most effective tool to quickly bring new team members up-to-speed.
It's also flexible enough to easily migrate from other platforms because you can easily drop your code into their AI engine and it will create the transformations for you. Whether it's a new project or moving away from an existing technology, you can implement fast and efficiently.
On top of the tools amazing features, the sales and support team members are the most responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful compared to any other software vendor I've ever worked with.
Lastly, they continue to add new features based on real feedback from customers to ensure we're always getting the best value for our money. Coalesce is easily one of my favorite products.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can't think of any. If we ever have a question or feature request, they're always very helpful in pointing us in the right direction or transparant on when it will be released.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coalesce is the backbone for data transformations, data quality, and governance within our Snowflake environment in support of our data products. It also is our go-to tool for deploying strategic data warehouses and data products for our clients in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. It allows us to deliver projects faster, which means keeping overall costs down while also delivering high-quality data to help run our business and our clients' businesses more effectively. At a time when budgets are constantly being scrutinized, Coalesce is one of the tools that continues to stand out because teams are able to articulate and show the value it brings to them, ultimately helping teams cut costs and deliver better quality data to their end users in less time.
Low-code pipelines have accelerated team collaboration and simplified CI/CD development
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Coalesce.io allows you to create ETL pipelines in a low-code approach. It natively supports templates for integrating with different systems and is built to deeply integrate with Snowflake.
Coalesce.io is a very complete platform because it also integrates all the tools needed for building CI/CD pipelines and an AI agent to support developers in their activities.
Coalesce.io has impacted our organization positively by providing a low-code approach. It supports different sources, so we don't need to write custom code. It is also a collaborative tool, making it suitable for teams with a large number of developers.
What needs improvement?
At the moment, the only improvement I see is deeper support for AI agents to support the developer's job.
Coalesce.io is a very complete platform, but it could be an even better product if it supported more developer jobs, speeding up development.
For how long have I used the solution?
Coalesce.io has been used for one year and a half.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Coalesce.io is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
As far as I have seen, Coalesce.io is very scalable. In case of excessive load, we can easily handle it by adding more resources.
How are customer service and support?
When Coalesce.io needs to be updated or maintained, we need to declare the maintenance window. We cannot use the tool during maintenance, but we try to keep maintenance time low to avoid any issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not use any solution before Coalesce.io. We used a more raw approach for development and deploying on Snowflake. That's why we decided to standardize, improve, and be more efficient with development by introducing Coalesce.io.
How was the initial setup?
The setup of Coalesce.io was not complex, and the licensing is very clear.
What about the implementation team?
We were provided with official documentation and also had some introductory courses and lessons by support.
What was our ROI?
Unfortunately, I don't have any numbers to share, but Coalesce.io had a very good impact on development and was very appreciated by the development team.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Coalesce.io was purchased through the AWS marketplace.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Different tools were evaluated as far as I know. I did not participate directly in the selection, and I cannot say what other tools were compared.
What other advice do I have?
Developers can share within Coalesce.io.
I would rate Coalesce.io as nine out of ten.
We do not track any metrics at the moment.
Coalesce.io is deployed in a private cloud.
When Coalesce.io needs to be updated or maintained, we must declare the maintenance window. We cannot use the tool during maintenance, but we try to keep maintenance time low to prevent any issues.
I don't have much information about security features.
Coalesce.io offers capabilities that we managed to use, but we also use external tools.
The Coalesce.io integration was planned to be smooth because before it, we used another tool, so we had to migrate what we had on the previous tool to Coalesce.io and then switch off when everything was done.
I suggest Coalesce.io to everyone who wants a collaborative environment deeply integrated with Snowflake that supports developers in their job.
Innovative and Agile Product Accelerating Data Activation
What do you like best about the product?
Coalesce is an easy to use platform that stays lock step with Snowflake so I'm always able to leverage the latest functionality of Snowflake within my production ready pipelines. There is an active package library that allows me to extend the base functionality of the platform to address more custom use cases and initiatives. Coalesce lowers the barrier of entry for new users accelerating how quickly engineers can ensure data products are ready for consumption. They have excellent customer service and proven results that show they are listening to their users. It has been a pivotal decision for our Snowflake journey that has become foundational in our success.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation is greatly enhanced through the use of Coalesce catalog but the editor lacks some level of customization found in other platforms. Package updates are frequent, but the effort to make mass adjustments through a large DAG remains cumbersome.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coalesce accelerates how quickly we are moving and transforming data within Snowflake while Catalog is tightly integrated and ensures our stewards are front and center to keep consumers informed of data products. The catalog AI chat bot has been excellent in adding additional transparency to data processes for power users, auditing, and exploration.
Gamechanger for pipeline development
What do you like best about the product?
Fastest development tool I have used
Auto documentation
After a pipeline is developed it just keeps going
Native integration of snowflake tools
Nodes are just getting started
Largely plug and play ie very easy to get going
Auto documentation
After a pipeline is developed it just keeps going
Native integration of snowflake tools
Nodes are just getting started
Largely plug and play ie very easy to get going
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't have Coalesce 4 or 5 years ago ;-)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This platform enables visual development while providing full access to the generated code. It also seamlessly incorporates a wide range of best practices into our workflow. From our experience, we are now able to scale much more significantly while maintaining excellent control over our pipelines.
Has been a game changer for our team.
What do you like best about the product?
We have a broad level of experience on our team, from new-grad to decades of experience. Both are able to use Coalesce in the way they see fit, and Coalesce meets them where they're at....whether it's through the UI or bringing your own code. The support team has been fantastic, and they're constantly adding features to make things more efficient for their end users. Coalesce is also very competitive price-wise with other tools in the same class.
What do you dislike about the product?
The online community documentation is still growing, but rapidly catching up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coalesce helps us keep everything well organized, builds great lineage and allows for unit testing on your most sensitive data sets.
Coalesce, the modern Pipeline Development tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Coalesce is Git forward and intuitive by design. The out of the box nodes account for many common Data Engineering processes AND if you need something that isn't covered, it's simple to script jinja to make the node do what you need it to do. The team supported us every step of the way and the speed at which we were able to implement pipelines in the product was days.
What do you dislike about the product?
As a coder, it was tough to adjust to the UI at first, but once I realized the power of the Jinja templates and how I could still code in the backend to make my DAGs even more powerful - it was no longer a downside.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Git Integration lacking in our legacy ETL tool. Cloud-data warehousing first code - leveraging the goodness of Snowflake Cortex AI capabilities in our ETL pipelines.
Coalesce is a fantastic transformational tool!
What do you like best about the product?
Coalesce's intuituve user interface, highly engaged developers making active improvements to the platform, and overall focus on helping us get data transformed in a complex way allowing us to get data in a form we need it to add value to our business, both internally and externally. We use this tool day daily and at times work with Coalesce support to help us build out the platform to our exact needs. Coalesce helped us solve some specific use cases that would not have been doable with other tools on the market. It's also highly configurable so for power users who want to build it's a wonderful solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform can be slower with larger environments. The mapped column interface can take a long time to load and be very slow to navigate for larger pipelines and ETLs. I'd like to see the GUI become faster and snappier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coalesce solves the problem of getting data transformed in our data warehosue. We can build our ETLs with ease in Coalesce in a way that would not be possible with other tools on the market.
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