With continued advancements and developments in our product offering, Fivetran has solutions to fit all of your data movement needs. The ability to securely move and manage your data integration processes is crucial for business insights, predictive analytics and security. At Fivetran, we offer three different deployment options to move your data, no matter the source or your organization’s security requirements. Each deployment option meets specific use cases, allowing Fivetran to address all of our customers’ needs with a single enterprise platform.

• A fully cloud-based SaaS option
• A hybrid option that separates the data and control planes between the cloud and your environment
• A self-hosted option within your network or VPC

Each deployment option meets specific use cases, allowing Fivetran to address all of our customers’ needs with a single enterprise platform.

Data plane vs. control plane: Understanding the basics

Before diving into the specifics of each deployment option, it’s essential to grasp the fundamental concepts of the data plane and the control plane. These two components have distinct but complementary roles in our data movement architecture and are the key differentiator in our hybrid deployment option.

Data plane

This is where the actual data movement occurs, handling the transfer between sources and destinations. In the data plane, data efficiently moves between sources and destinations via predefined rules and protocols. In this layer, it’s important to consider when you’re working with sensitive data fields, strict security requirements and large volumes of data.

Control plane

The control plane manages the data plane, overseeing configuration, monitoring and orchestration of data movement. It provides the interface for users to manage data movement processes like setting up pipelines, monitoring performance, handling security settings and getting a bird’s-eye view of your data movement.

The below image illustrates the differences between the data and control planes across Fivetran’s deployment options:

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SaaS deployment: A fully managed solution in the cloud

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Fivetran’s SaaS deployment option is ideal for organizations looking for a user-friendly data movement solution. With this model, customers can build and manage their pipelines through a cloud-based UI, giving them the flexibility to deploy and maintain their data movement without infrastructure management. This frees users to focus more on deriving insights from their data rather than setting up pipelines.

Here are some key benefits of choosing a SaaS deployment option for your data movement:

1. Fully managed service: With SaaS deployment, you get a fully managed service that handles all aspects of your data movement infrastructure. This includes updates, scaling and maintenance, allowing your team to focus on leveraging the data rather than managing the technology.

2. High availability and reliability: Our SaaS offering provides access to a high-availability infrastructure with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, ensuring consistent and reliable performance. Fivetran’s idempotent features, such as automated schema drift handling, retry capabilities and API metering, help resolve errors and API rate limits without user intervention.

3. Security: Our SaaS platform offers the most comprehensive privacy, security and compliance program of any cloud ELT platform on the market. With column hashing, data encryption and all of the certifications your organization needs, you can trust that your data is secure with us.

For more technical details on our SaaS deployment, please refer to our technical documentation.

Hybrid deployment: Flexibility and control

Fivetran’s new hybrid deployment offering is designed for organizations that want to replicate data within their own network or VPC while benefiting from managed control features. This model gives you the best of both worlds: processing sensitive data within your own environment while managing, monitoring and version-controlling all data movement activities through Fivetran’s unified control plane. 

With Fivetran’s Hybrid Deployment, only the metadata required to manage your data pipelines is sent to Fivetran via an outbound connection, ensuring compliance with your organization’s security protocols. No customer data or sensitive information is ever shared back to the platform. This setup provides the benefit of Fivetran’s automated features, as well as ongoing monitoring and optimization by our team of engineers and support specialists, all while keeping data movement within your own environment.

Key benefits of hybrid deployment include: 

1. Sensitive data handling: Hybrid deployment is ideal for scenarios where sensitive data must stay within your environment due to regulatory or privacy concerns. You can configure specific pipelines to process this data locally, ensuring it meets your enterprise data security requirements. No data ever leaves your secure environment or VPC, while still benefiting from a centralized control plane for easy updates, modifications and pipeline management. 

2. Centralized management: Even though data processing occurs in your environment, the centralized control plane allows you to monitor and manage all your pipelines from one location. This approach simplifies management, monitoring and orchestration, providing a cohesive interface for overseeing all data movement operations. 

3. Flexibility: Hybrid deployment offers the flexibility to meet various data management needs without compromising security or control. You can handle sensitive databases while using the SaaS option for less sensitive SaaS applications — all managed through a single, unified UI. 

“phData is excited about Fivetran's Hybrid Deployment option, which allows our customers in regulated industries like healthcare and financial services to scale the configuration and ingestion of highly sensitive data sets on self-managed infrastructure. This approach streamlines data pipeline processes, eliminating the need for customers to self-host software or build DIY pipelines to securely move data from source to destination.”

— Troy Fokken, Chief Architect at phData

For more details on Hybrid Deployment, check out our announcement blog and explore our documentation page for setup and configuration specifics.

Self-hosted HVR: On-premises control and customization

Our self-hosted HVR deployment option is perfect for organizations needing a self-hosted control plane. This solution lets you deploy our software on your own hardware, giving you the flexibility to customize and optimize the setup according to your specific requirements. With Fivetran HVR, you can replicate large volumes of data with low latency via multiple topologies.

Fivetran HVR is a powerful solution for high-volume, real-time database replication:

1. Fully air-gapped solution: A self-hosted deployment is designed for scenarios where a fully air-gapped solution is necessary, keeping all data movement and control within your own environment. This ensures your data movement infrastructure operates in isolation from external networks, enhancing security and compliance.

2. Low latency and high volume: Fivetran HVR enables low-latency data movement while efficiently handling large volumes of data. This is especially valuable for real-time data transfers and environments with high volumes of change data where performance is critical.

3. Customization: Hosting Fivetran HVR yourself gives you full control over the configuration and customization of your data movement processes. You can  tailor the solution to meet your unique operational needs, with support for various sources and targets and multiple topologies.

For more information on our self-hosted HVR solution, visit our technical documentation.

Tailored solutions for your data movement needs

Whether you need a fully managed service, a hybrid approach — with both cloud and on-premises elements — or a self-hosted solution with complete control, Fivetran offers deployment options to meet your diverse data movement requirements. We’re committed  to providing you with the flexibility, security and performance necessary to manage your data effectively.

You can even run hybrid deployment alongside other options for added versatility.

To explore all available deployment options and find the best fit for your organization, visit our website. You’ll find detailed information to guide your decision-making and help you choose the solution that best aligns with your needs.