proven performance over recycled tech

Fivetran vs. Snowflake Openflow

While Snowflake's 2025 Openflow (formerly Datavolo) release is a limited add-on, Fivetran stands as a proven, purpose-built platform for moving data from 700+ sources to 160+ destinations, including data warehouses, data lakes, and more.

Fivetran vs. Openflow: Features and performance

Openflow

Support for every data source in your stack

700+ high-performance pipelines plus an easy-to-use Connector SDK

7 GA connectors, plus 12 in Preview

Destination-agnostic to support migrations and multi-destination deployments

160+ supported destinations, including data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, and applications

Only compatible with Snowflake via Snowpipe Streaming

Limited data engineering resources required

Easy-to-set-up pipelines can be set up by anyone

Requires NiFi skills

Deploy on any cloud

Can run on AWS, GCP, or Azure

Limited to AWS

Robust object support for Workday, Hubspot, and Jira

Robust table and object availability, with illustrative ERDs

Limited table and object availability

Automatic data conversion to Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake open table formats

Fivetran Managed Data Lake Service supports Iceberg and Delta Lake

Not supported

No additional infrastructure needed

Fivetran is delivered as SaaS, meaning no additional infrastructure or maintenance costs

Incurs Snowpipe Streaming and AWS Elastic Kubernetes costs and maintenance

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Table last updated 7/15/25. For the latest product developments, check the product documentation.

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Fivetran vs. Openflow: Performance and usability

At Fivetran, we are focused on providing reliability and scale for our customers

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500+ GB/hr

Historical sync throughput speeds

9.1+ Petabytes

Amount of data synced per month

22.2M +

Schema changes handled per month

37.7M +

Transformation models run per month

156.5M +

Pipeline syncs per month

10.1T +

Rows synced per month

High-performing pipelines ensure you get data in real time

Fivetran is 4x faster

than Openflow when syncing a 10,000-row HubSpot Contacts table:
13 minutes with Fivetran vs. 61 minutes with Openflow.

Fivetran is 10x faster

than Openflow when syncing 50GB of TPROC-C data from PostgreSQL: 12 minutes with Fivetran vs. 113 minutes with Openflow

Results are from Fivetran's internal testing of Fivetran and Openflow.

Fivetran vs. Openflow: Connector comparison

Fivetran provides easy-to-use connectors give you the functionality and flexibility you need

Source

Feature

Openflow

Support for Jira on-premises

Yes

No, only supports cloud

# of Jira entities supported

50+ entities

Only “Issues” entity out-of-the-box

Support for DELETEs

Yes, via Webhooks

Support for OAUTH

Yes

No, basic auth only

Feature

Openflow

# of objects supported

20+ objects supported

Only 9 objects supported

Support for multiple objects per connection?

Yes

No, one NiFi process group needs to be created and maintained per object

Feature

Openflow

Support for schema drift

Fully supported

Supported, but not for PK changes or numeric precision changes

Method of selecting tables for replication

Easy-to-use web GUI

Tables must be typed in manually or with Regex

Method of selecting columns for replication

Easy-to-use web GUI

Columns must be typed in manually or with Regex

Support for CDC options

WAL, XMIN, or Teleport Sync

WAL only

Support for various versions

9.4 through 17

11+, but no support for version 17 on GCP, Aurora, or Azure

Recommended Snowflake warehouse size for ingestion

Extra small

Medium

Support for PK-less tables

Yes

Feature

Openflow

Supports breadth of fields

RaaS plus hundreds of Workday HCM tables across Core HCM, HR, Demographics, Personal Qualification, Recruiting, Payroll, Compensation, and more

RaaS only

Support for CDC?

Yes

Support for schema drift?

Yes

Row limitations

Yes, max 50k rows

Feature

Openflow

Supported as a source and destination?

Yes

No, source only

Supports various versions

5.5 through 8.4

8.0 or 8.4 only

Supports PK-less tables?

Yes

Supports various datatypes

Virtually all MySQL data types are supported, as documented here

No support for GEOMETRY, GEOMETRYCOLLECTION, LINESTRING, MULTILINESTRING, MULTIPOINT, MULTIPOLYGON, POINT, and POLYGON

Support for schema drift?

Fully supported

No support for precision changes

“Without Fivetran, we would have needed six months to figure out our migration strategy to a new, modern data platform.”

Sreeram Koneru, Director of Analytics Platform Delivery at Pfizer

Database replication

Operational efficiency

Customer story

Pfizer speeds up clinical trials by unlocking real-time data

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Fivetran helps data teams increase their impact

Unify and standardize all data integration across the organization

Simplify your data architecture with one end-to-end solution that allows you to move and activate all of your business data with 700+ Fivetran connectors and 160+ Census connectors — no manual pipelines or multi-vendor architectures required.

Automate and de-risk pipeline maintenance

Reduce manual overhead with fully managed data pipelines that you set up in minutes, not months — no AWS administrators, Quartz cron syntax, or Apache NiFi expertise required.

Modernize legacy data infrastructure

Modernize your infrastructure and scale to meet current and future use cases with support for Snowflake, data lakes, and lakehouses hosted on AWS, GCP, and Azure — without any legacy coding or architecture limitations.

Fivetran vs. Snowflake Openflow

At Fivetran, we are focused on providing reliability and scale for our customers

500+ GB/hr

9.1+ Petabytes

22.2M +

37.7M +

156.5M +

10.1T +

High-performing pipelines ensure you get data in real time

Fivetran is 4x faster

Fivetran is 10x faster

Fivetran vs. Openflow: Connector comparison

Fivetran provides easy-to-use connectors give you the functionality and flexibility you need

Pfizer speeds up clinical trials by unlocking real-time data

Fivetran helps data teams increase their impact

Unify and standardize all data integration across the organization

Automate and de-risk pipeline maintenance

Modernize legacy data infrastructure

A new IDC report validates and demonstrates the customer value and ROI of Fivetran

700+ fully managed connectors

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