Here are a few things to remember when choosing the right data ingestion tools.
- The data pipeline must be fast and have an effective data cleansing process. In addition, data ingestion tools must be easy to manage and understand and easily customizable to needs.
- An advantage of using an open-source data ingestion tool is you can use it on-prem. Modify it, and write plugins accordingly.
- Your chosen tool must include all the data security standards.
- It must not include too much developer dependency. A person with minimum coding experience must manage the stuff around.
- The data ingestion tool should have the feature of offering insight into real-time data. First, look at the architectural design of the product. Then, see if that combines well with your current system.
- After you decide on the right tool for yourself, see what the community has to say about that tool.
For example, it is always helpful to have user-based operations UI with which people can easily run and interact, unlike a console-based interaction requiring specific commands for the input in the system.
Be clear on the requirements. For example, what kind of data are you dealing with? Is the tool run on single or multiple machines? What is data management architecture?
Will it scale well? Is it going to handle changes in external data semantics? The data ingestion tool must be able to manage the business traffic. The network is defective.