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June 30, 2026

Perforce Delphix vs. DataMasque: How to Choose the Right Solution for Data Masking

Bruce Liu
Bruce Liu,
Brian Muskoff
Brian Muskoff

Data Management,

Security & Compliance

If you’re deciding on a data masking solution, you might be comparing Perforce Delphix vs. DataMasque. Both solutions have their appropriate use cases, and it’s important to know which will fit your organization’s specific needs.  

In this blog, we’ll tell you about the most notable offerings and differences for Delphix vs. DataMasque. Now let’s dive in and compare, so you can determine what’s the best choice for masking your data (and more).

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High-Level Overview: What are Delphix and DataMasque Used For? 

Delphix vs. DataMasque: Both protect sensitive data, but they cover very different scales and problems. One is a full enterprise data platform, while the other is a focused masking tool. We're here to give you the lowdown on which is which. 

What Delphix is Designed to Do 

Delphix is an AI-powered enterprise data automation platform that delivers trusted, compliant, production-like data for development, testing, analytics, and AI workflows.  

By unifying data virtualization, automated masking, synthetic data generation, and policy-based governance in one platform, Delphixautomatically discovers and protects sensitive data across every non-production environment — from mainframe to cloud — while preserving referential integrity and auditability at scale. 

Teams often use Delphix to deliver compliant, production-like data at agentic speeds, embed data into CI/CD pipelines, and cut storage and cloud costs.   

Related reading >> The Technical Guide to Data Masking with Perforce Delphix 

What DataMasque is Designed to Do 

DataMasque is a focused data masking tool that applies static masking to databases and files, replacing sensitive values with realistic but irreversible ones. It uses YAML-based rulesets and includes sensitive data discovery through metadata search and pattern matching.  

DataMasque fits teams that want quick masking inside an AWS-centric workflow. However, it doesn’t virtualize, provision, or generatedata. It solves a narrower problem than Delphix, doing its one job in a focused way.  

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Key Differences Between Delphix vs. DataMasque, at a Glance 

What is the difference between Delphix and DataMasque? Before we dive into the specifics comparing Delphix vs. DataMasquecapabilities, here's a high-level view with the core features of each: 

Delphix 

  • Covers the full data lifecycle in one platform: data delivery and virtualization, masking, synthetic data, and data governance.  
  • Delivers production-like data with referential integrity in minutes through virtual copies, which can provide up to 10x storage savings.  
  • Enforces continuous compliance, with central control of sensitive data across all environments. 

DataMasque 

  • Focuses on static data masking (with no data virtualization or provisioning).  
  • Has a lower entry price for masking-only projects, often departmental or AWS-centric.  
  • Deploys run-based masking, so compliance is verified at masking time rather than continuously. 
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Side-by-Side Feature Comparison: Delphix and DataMasque for Enterprise Use Cases  

If you want to hear which features are available for Delphix vs. DataMasque, we have a thorough breakdown of both. See what they offer — with a direct comparison of the offerings. 

Use Case Delphix DataMasque Where Delphix Wins 
Core Platform & Scope Offers a full data automation platform: virtualization, sensitive data discovery, masking, synthetic data, and data governance. Only has single-purpose static masking for databases and files, with discovery. The single Delphixplatform replaces 3+ point tools, cutting tool sprawl and integration work. 
Data Masking Has a large library of 25+ supported enterprise database platforms with 30+ prebuilt masking algorithms, conditional logic, and chained masking across complex schemas. Provides a limited library of 14 supported database platforms with SHA-512 salted hashing for irreversibility, configured through YAML rulesets. Delphix has broader masking techniques that handle complex, related data across many enterprise systems, not just single datasets. 
Large Scale Database Masking Can run a single masking job across a cluster of engines for 1TB+ datasets. Masks in-place on a single instance, with no distributed or scale-out architecture, which limits performance at large scale. With Delphix, a multi-TB database that takes days to mask on a single instance can finish in hours with horizontal scalability. 
Data Virtualization& Delivery Produces thin, production-like virtual copies in minutes. Does not offer. Teams get usable data in minutes without full physical clones, which cuts storage and wait time. 
Synthetic Data Generation 

Can generate realistic, secure data on demandwhen data is not available in production. This data is customized per scenario, application, and feature. 

 

Does not offer. Delphix can spin up synthetic data in seconds, making it fit for agentic speeds and streamlining development andtesting. 
Data Privacy Compliance Includes policy enforcement, so non-production data is never left holding unmasked PII. Only has run-based masking, triggered manually or by API. Delphix continuously enforces compliance,not just at the moment of a masking run. 
Data Governance & Control Offers central control through self-service access by UI and API. Has API-first control of masking runs and rulesets, with no self-service portal. Delphix self-service lets developers get compliant data without filing a ticket or waiting on a DBA. 
AI Readiness Has a publicly available MCP server for agentic AI workflows, plus AI-assisted sensitive data discovery and synthetic data generation. Only recently announced MCP support, listed in the AWS Marketplace AI Agents category. With enterprisesimplementing agentic workflows, Delphix offersthe AI-ready datanecessary for their success.  
Total Cost of Ownership Has higher initialinvestment offset by 10x storage savings from virtualization, faster delivery cycles, and reduced environment sprawl. Customers have realized a 408% ROI with payback in under six months*. Provides a lower entry price for masking-only use cases, but no data provisioning savings. Requires separate tools for cloning, provisioning, and compliance. Since Delphx is one platform, enterprises can avoid the cost of buying and integrating separate data generation, provisioning, and compliance tools. 

What are the Integration Capabilities of Delphix Compared to DataMasque? 

Integration for data masking solutions can be a notable barrier to adoption. Delphix is built to plug into modern DevOps pipelines. Delphix ships native plugins for Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, ServiceNow and others, so data masking runs inside the pipelines teams already use.  

Our self-service capabilities also lets developers and QA request compliant environments on demand, with no DBA ticket, while ourpublicly available MCP server opens the door to agentic AI workflows.  

The Delphix self-hosted software runs on-premises and on the cloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It also covers 26+ data platforms and formats across 9 categories, including:  

DataMasque deploys as a self-hosted image on AWS, an Azure RHEL image, or on-prem, and it is API-first. Its REST API triggers masking runs and manages rulesets and connections. It integrates well with:  

  • AWS through Step Functions templates 
  • CloudFormation 
  • An EC2 Image Builder component 

DataMasque does not offer native CI/CD plugins, a self-service portal, or environment provisioning. That means there are some notable DataMasque integration limitations.  

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Should I Choose Delphix or DataMasque? 

When Delphix is a Better Fit 

Choose Delphix when data compliance cannot be an afterthought. Delphix delivers AI-powered data compliance at agentic speed and scale, unifying automated masking and synthetic data generation in a single platform.  

But Delphix can also support:  

  • Both cloud and application migration, where virtualization cuts storage cost while masking protects data. 
  • Platform consolidation, replacing separate cloning, masking, subsetting, and provisioning tools with one platform. 

For regulated industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government, Delphix continuously discovers and protects sensitive data across every non-production environment, from mainframe to cloud, transforming compliance workflows from weeks and months to hours and minutes.  

Unlike point tools that address only part of the problem, Delphix eliminates sensitive data risks, including AI data leaks and regulatory noncompliance, while keeping development, analytics, and AI initiatives moving forward without trade-offs. 

When DataMasque is a Better Fit  

Choose DataMasque when the need is targeted. It fits AWS-centric teams that want quick masking for RDS, Aurora, or DynamoDB snapshots. It’s also suitable for: 

  • Small, departmental projects where a full platform is not justified. 
  • Teams that want a low-barrier start with consumption-based pricing. 

If the only requirement is to mask a small number of datasets, DataMasque is a reasonable choice. If the requirement is to deliver compliant, production-like data quickly and safely across the enterprise, Delphix is the stronger fit and a great DataMasque alternative. 

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What Do Users Say About Delphix? 

Delphix has a proven reputation for delivering new levels of speed, efficiency, and governance. Perforce Delphix — a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Voice of the Customer Report for test data management — is ranked highly by Gartner Peer Insights users across product capabilities as well as sales, deployment, and support experiences.  

Additionally, an IDC white paper found that Delphix has proven benefits. Our customers have:   

  • Achieved 58% faster application development.*  
  • Protected 77.2% more environments.*  
  • Realized a 408% ROI with payback in under six months.* 

Success Stories from Delphix Customers 

Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU) — thanks to the all-in-one Delphix DevOps Data Platform — standardized its data masking and discovery while maintaining an agile testing structure. Delphix helped BECU mask 662 tables, 3,507 columns, and 680 million rows of data in just 15 hours.  

"Not only does Delphix reduce our risk footprint by masking sensitive data, but we can also give developers realistic, production-like environments." — Kyle Welsh, CISO, BECU 

With Delphix, California State University accelerated its hybrid cloud migration and saved $7.5 million in dev storage costs. Unisys — the IT company which works for the university and supports data access, delivery, masking, and integration — wanted to improve its time-to-value. Delphix’s ability to handle large volume and scale made it the perfect fit for handling the university’s 2,000 monthly data requests anddelivering 15TB of data to 23 campuses.  

“We deployed Delphix data masking that helped the entire data to be masked and protected. And with Delphix and its APIs, we were able to integrate that into our core pipelines and deliver to our developers much more agility and scalability and give the users a better experience." — Raj Singh, Chief Architect of Strategic Accounts, Unisys 

 

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Delphix vs. DataMasque: Protect Your Data at Scale 

Sensitive data sprawls from production into development, testing, analytics, and AI environments, where it is far less governed and secured. Delphix eliminates compliance risk with AI-powered automated masking and synthetic data generation, delivering compliant, production-like data at the speed and scale your enterprise demands. 

Reduce Your Sensitive Data Exposure Footprint 

Delphix uses AI to automatically discover PII, PHI, and other regulated data across your entire estate, including complex, large-scale sources like Snowflake and Databricks. It replaces sensitive values with realistic masked data using a rich library of pre-built, customizable algorithms, or generates AI-powered synthetic data when production data is insufficient.  

Automate Compliance Across Your Enterprise 

Delphix helps security and compliance teams centrally define and deploy masking policies across hybrid cloud environments, supporting GDPR, the EU AI Act, CCPA, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. Automated discovery, policy-based governance, and centralized auditability give you continuous control over non-production data, reducing the manual effort that creates bottlenecks and introduces risk.  

Deliver Compliant Data at Agentic Speed & Scale 

Agentic development amplifies data exposure. As AI agents and developers demand data at machine speed, your compliance workflows must keep pace. Delphix transforms data masking and synthetic generation from a process that takes weeks or months into one that completes in hours and minutes, even at billions of rows.  

Protect Innovation Without Trade-Offs 

With Delphix, you do not have to choose between security and speed. Organizations across financial services, healthcare, insurance, and other regulated industries trust Delphix to reduce their sensitive data risk footprint while improving the pace and quality of software delivery, analytics, and AI initiatives. Contact us to get a personalized demo.

Mask Your Data at Scale

*IDC Business Value White Paper, sponsored by Delphix, by Perforce, The Business Value of Delphix, #US52560824, December 2024

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