2150 Datavault Builder

What is 2150 Datavault Builder?

Business-driven end-to-end data warehouse automation platform covering all aspects of a data warehouse: design & development, lifecycle management, and operations. Supports Data Vault, relational, and multidimensional models.

Customer Satisfaction
8.9
Rated 8.9 out of 10
User Experience
7.7
Rated 7.7 out of 10
Technical Foundation
7.6
Rated 7.6 out of 10
Business Value
7.8
Rated 7.8 out of 10

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2150 Datavault Builder serves 270 installations across four continents, supported by 50+implementation partners. In 2024, the vendor achieved SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, strengthening its enterprise security credentials. As a Data Vault automation specialist expanding into broader data warehouse automation, the company targets customers from mid-market to enterprise, with references including ProSiebenSat1 and C&A. Its Docker-containerized architecture enables on-premises, hybrid, or cloud deployment, including Snowflake Snowpark Container Services. This flexibility addresses the hybrid data and analytics reality many enterprises face today. The vendor is EU and in particular DACH-focused with growing US momentum.

The product automates the full data warehouse development, deployment, and operations cycle to reduce time-to-market, project risk, and maintenance costs. Template-driven workflows support Data Vault, relational, multidimensional, and flat table models, plus data product delivery. Rather than using a proprietary metadata repository, 2150 Datavault Builder integrates logic directly into target databases, positioning itself as a business model driven data warehouse automation solution that generates and executes procedures directly on the database in the target system. Supported platforms span traditional databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Exasol, Postgres) and cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Azure SQL, Synapse/Fabric). DevOps integration includes Git, as well as deployment and orchestration, either natively or via third-party orchestration tools such as UC4, Apache Airflow, and BMC Control-M for scheduling and monitoring. Bi-temporal data processing supports complex finance industry requirements.

Functionally, the tool consolidates nine capabilities: data modeling, data integration, data quality, data profiling, metadata management and enrichment, database clients, pattern generators, job orchestration, and scheduling and deployment, which can be executed manually or automated via CI/CD pipelines. Datavault Builder provides a decent variety of source connectors. Built-in transparency features include auditing, automated documentation, historization, and data lineage. The guided interface supports structured and standardized development processes.

In The Data Fabric Survey 26, 2150 Datavault Builder ranked first for Customer Satisfaction in both its peer groups (8.9/10), with perfect User Support (10/10) and excellent Product Satisfaction (9.3/10), Time to Market (8.8/10), and Connectivity scores (8.3/10). Purchase drivers are compelling: 95% cite functional capabilities (versus 42% average in the survey), 80% value cost / good price-performance ratio (versus 37%), and 65% are swayed by the tool’s connectivity (versus 57%). Remarkably, 50% report no significant problems, double the average. However, 20% cite “bad performance,” although user feedback suggests UX delays with large models rather than SQL execution issues. Datavault Builder plans to release a new GUI in Q3 2026, enhancing the management of large object volumes, improving usability through intuitive metadata grid layouts, integrating an MCP Server, enabling Single Sign-On (SSO) via Keycloak, and providing enhanced data lineage visualization, among other improvements. Another 20% find it “too difficult for business users.” This highlights the fact that Datavault Builder is a tool built by experts for data warehouse experts.

2150 Datavault Builder fits organizations that want to leverage its ability to absorb heterogeneous data sources, ensure full historization, and enable automated refactoring, while empowering focused teams with automation, flexibility, and optimized data structures for BI, AI, and data mesh use cases. The solution is for organizations prioritizing vendor support and rapid deployment. Its strong price-to-value is a particular relevant argument in times of tight data and analytics budgets. Consider alternatives for heavy business user self-service or data engineering beyond warehouses (i.e., scenarios without significant data modeling requirements). Recent certifications and expanded cloud platform support demonstrate vendor maturity.

Strengths and challenges of 2150 Datavault Builder

BARC’s viewpoint on the product’s strengths and challenges.

Strengths
  • Proven solution, automation mechanisms scale well from small scenarios up to complex enter-prise scenarios by integrating with enterprise software like GIT.
  • Broad support of connectors to source systems and data types as well as a good selection of supported target systems (e.g., Oracle, Microsoft, PostgreSQL, Snowflake) for a data warehouse automation tool.
  • Builds not only data vault models, but also relational or multidimensional models, flat tables, and even supports customers in providing data products based on data consumers’ needs.
  • Customers highlight the strong price-performance ratio rooted in this software product that very precisely covers a very specific need in the market.
Challenges
  • Relatively small team and company. For implementations, a broad partner network is available to serve customers worldwide.
  • Increasing complexity in data warehouse processing can slow down time-to-market, due to some aspects of customization that cannot be fully automated.
  • Only compatible with supported target databases.
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2150 Datavault Builder User Reviews & Experiences

The information contained in this section is based on user feedback and actual experience with 2150 Datavault Builder.

The information and figures are largely drawn from BARC’s The BI & Analytics Survey, The Planning Survey, The Financial Consolidation Survey and The Data Management Survey. You can find out more about these surveys by clicking on the relevant links.

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Individual user reviews for 2150 Datavault Builder

Role
Data engineer/Data manager
Number of employees
More than 2.500
Industry
Media/Publishing
Source
BARC Panel, Data Fabric 26, 03/2025
What do you like best?

Graphisches Entwickeln von DWH‑Entitäten. Super Integration mit Git. API ermöglicht Integration mit anderen Tools, wie z. B. Airflow für übergeordnetes Scheduling. Business‑Rules‑Materialisierung ist sehr gut.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Navigation in den Business Rules. Bei mehr als 1000 Business Rules ist die Navigation nicht effektiv möglich. Scrollen und eingeschränkte Suche sind möglich. Data‑Catalog‑Features sind noch ausbaufähig. Data‑Quality‑Framework muss komplett außerhalb des Datavault Builders aufgebaut werden. Delta‑Loads / inkrementelle Loads aus der Data Vault heraus nicht möglich (Stand: Februar 2025).

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Refactoring der graphischen Usability. Bei sehr großen Mengen sind die Lineage‑ und Operations‑Darstellungen unübersichtlich. Einbindung von LLM/AI‑Funktionalität, z. B. in der Modellierung des Raw Vault.

How would you sum up your experience?

Insgesamt bin ich mit Datavault Builder sehr zufrieden. Unser Feedback an das Produktmanagement wird mit offenen Ohren angenommen und in die Produktroadmap integriert. In Kombination mit der Snowflake‑Funktion Zero‑Copy‑Cloning lässt sich der Entwicklungsprozess sehr agil und state‑of‑the‑art gestalten.

Role
IT employee
Number of employees
100 - 2.500
Industry
Manufacturing
Source
BARC Marketing, Data Fabric 26, 04/2025
What do you like best?

It is easy to update to a new source for master data, for example, when switching ERP systems. It is also easy to start with raw data and transform it into a shared data model.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Accessing data is slow if the source is complex. It is hard to delete items after some data are loaded (which could be an advantage). Changes should always be incremental.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Do it right the first time. Fixing a design mistake can be time-consuming.

How would you sum up your experience?

This tool is very useful for our small team, which has numerous source systems. It allows us to make data available quickly and easily.

Role
Consultant
Number of employees
100 - 2.500
Industry
Consulting
Source
Invited by the vendor, Data Fabric 26, 04/2025
What do you like best?

Fachanwender können direkt mit dem Data-Team die DWH-Strukturen modellieren und sehen die Ergebnisse umgehend im Report.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Lasst euch vom Hersteller bei der Einführung unterstützen. Da die leichte Modellierung oft darüber hinwegtäuscht, wie komplex die Befüllung eines DWH sein kann, vermitteln die Profis von 2150 DataVault Builder mit ihren Best Practices einen guten Start, der langfristig zu einer guten Gesamtperformance führt.

How would you sum up your experience?

Überraschend, da hier ein umfassendes Werkzeug für die DWH-Modellierung geliefert wird, das weitaus mehr kann, als zunächst erwartet.

Role
Consultant
Number of employees
Less than 100
Industry
Insurance
Source
Invited by the vendor, Data Fabric 26, 03/2025
What do you like best?

Top-down-Approach. Mit dem Business-User erstelle ich live ein konzeptionelles Modell. Dieses kann ich im Nachgang mit Daten und Leben (sprich: Satelliten) füllen. Gleichzeitig stelle ich fest, ob dieses Konzept überhaupt funktioniert oder noch zusätzliche Elemente (sprich: Hubs und Links) benötigt.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten, eine Lösung umzusetzen. Die Vor- und Nachteile jeder Variante sind im Vorhinein nicht bekannt.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Konzept erstellen, mit Daten füllen und erste Ergebnisse gleich ausliefern. So sieht man sofort, ob die Daten nutzbar sind oder nicht.

How would you sum up your experience?

Tickets werden schnell bearbeitet und ernst genommen. Lösungsvorschläge werden gerne aufgenommen und zeitnah umgesetzt.

Role
Data engineer/Data manager
Number of employees
100 - 2.500
Industry
Healthcare
Source
Invited by the vendor, Data Fabric 26, 03/2025
What do you like best?

It's a flexible on-rails solution that saves significant time managing ETL workflows.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

GUI scalability with model complexity. Complexity of upgrade processes.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Take the time to onboard and understand it. Read up on Data Vault 2.

How would you sum up your experience?

Great tool. Would use it again.

Role
Enterprise architect
Number of employees
More than 2.500
Industry
Manufacturing
Source
Invited by the vendor, Data Fabric 26, 04/2025
What do you like best?

The high degree of automation in building and extending Data Vault models, along with the flexibility offered in custom functionality.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

The user interface is cumbersome in some sections, especially when dealing with large models.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

The first suggestion I would give is to fully understand the strengths of the Data Vault framework and then consider how the tool streamlines the implementation of fully functional data warehousing solutions.

How would you sum up your experience?

We have adopted the tool since its early inception and experienced some challenges due to its initial unreliability when connecting to our Exasol database. However, the reactivity of 2150 is amazing — its developers are top-notch and implement solutions and improvements very quickly. Nowadays, the product is mature, reliable, and performs very well. The only weakness I still see is the user interface, which can be cumbersome in some parts (e.g., in the dimensional model) when large portions of the model are involved. I also see room for improvement in the area of connectors to external sources, for example, web APIs.

Role
Consultant
Number of employees
Less than 100
Industry
Manufacturing
Source
Invited by the vendor, Data Fabric 26, 04/2025
What do you like best?

The team responds to issues promptly, and the tool itself delivers on its promises.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

The UI in some places can be improved.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Get some training on data modeling to use it properly.

How would you sum up your experience?

Great team, great tool. I am happy to work with it.

Survey Information
Number of reviews for 2150 Datavault Builder
20
Reviewed versions
Peer groups in the survey
Data Engineering Tools, Data Warehouse Automation
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