When comparing Airbyte vs SymmetricDS, the Slant community recommends Airbyte for most people. In the question“What are the best database syncing solutions?” Airbyte is ranked 6th while SymmetricDS is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Airbyte is:
Many sources available: - Salesforce, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Stripe, Hubspot, Marketo, Shopify, GitHub, Postgres, Rest APIs, Google Sheets, MySQL, etc. - destinations: Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres and CSV new sources released frequently.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Integrations
Many sources available:
- Salesforce, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Stripe, Hubspot, Marketo, Shopify, GitHub, Postgres, Rest APIs, Google Sheets, MySQL, etc.
- destinations: Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres and CSV
new sources released frequently.
Pro API
Pro Free version
Pro File systems
Can also duplicate entire file systems.
Pro Multi database
Support for Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server (including Azure), IBM DB2 (UDB, iSeries, and zSeries), H2, HSQLDB, Derby, Firebird, Interbase, Informix, Greenplum, SQLite, Sybase ASE, Sybase ASA (SQL Anywhere), Amazon Redshift, MongoDB, and VoltDB.
Cons
Con Installs triggers
SymmetricDS does install database triggers.
Con Limited free version
The free version does not have a GUI and can only be used from the command line, see comparison.
There is an open source GUI dashboard available however: DRD Replicator.