AWS Glue vs Mule Anypoint Platform comparison

AWS Glue

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AWS Glue

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Mule Anypoint Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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AWS Glue vs. Mule Anypoint Platform

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Glue

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

1st

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mule Anypoint Platform

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business-to-Business Middleware (2nd), Workload Automation (8th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of AWS Glue is 27.9%, up from 24.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Mule Anypoint Platform is 7.0%, down from 8.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Business-to-Business Middleware

11.9%

Workload Automation

0.8%

Featured Reviews

ParamShah

Engineering Manager at Milestone Technologies

Jan 16, 2024

A cloud solution with easy configuration with output limitation

There are output limitations and configuration of its three parts. There was a lot of trial and error that we had to go through. It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in. We've made some expensive mistakes, which, if there were any tutorials available or if there was easy documentation available with FAQs, could have been avoided. There is documentation, but it doesn't cover all. There are three specific partition changes, and AWS Glue is tightly tied to Athena. We don't have much flexibility in managing the Athena. AWS Glue could integrate with an AI model or a more advanced version that processes chat-based inputs rather than configuration. This would align it more closely with the functionalities of chat-based interfaces, making it easier to adopt.

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reviewer1562574

Solutions Architect at Forcepoint

Jun 17, 2022

Increases productivity, speeds up integration, and helps with effective re-authentication

What I hear from my customers is that it's very expensive compared to the cost of other integration suites. The cost keeps increasing. MuleSoft should come up with customization factors by using a different way of getting the cost-related stuff to attract customers. That is, they should come up with some cost optimizations. In the next release, I would like to see deployment automations. I would also like MuleSoft to come up with a central platform because with on-premises and hybrid environments, where some are cloud-based applications and others are on premises applications, a DPC setup has to be done. It would be good if they can implement one centralized user interface that provides all of the facilities.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is serverless so it allows us to transform data while optimizing the cost and performance of Spark jobs."

"AWS Glue's most valuable features are the data catalog, including crawlers and tables, and Glue Studio, which means you don't have to use custom code."

"One of the best features of the solution is its ability to easily integrate with other AWS services."

"Our entire use case was very easily handled or solved using this solution."

"We no longer had to worry much about infrastructure management because AWS Glue is serverless, and Amazon takes care of the underlying infrastructure."

"The solution's technical support is good. Whenever we raise a use case where we face an issue in our company, we get a response from the solution's technical team."

"It is a stable and scalable solution."

"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is its ease of use and good documentation. Additionally, we can do all the transformations that we need."

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"Whenever we need some support in our local language, we get it easily. They also have an office in Germany and if a person is unable to contact them by phone, they can go to the office in person."

"The initial setup is quite easy because the solution has a good interface through which the configuration, mapping, and so on can be done."

"API management."

"The platform's cloud integration capabilities are good."

"The exchange and API management features are the best in the market."

"The solution's market place for different kinds of integration platforms is the most valuable feature."

"The product’s ability to seamlessly translate protocols is great."

"Customers can make use of Runtime Fabric, an RTF environment."

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Cons

"Glue could perform better. It sometimes takes too long to test a Glue job. Google Cloud Platform offers more Python scripts than AWS."

"The start-up time is really high right now. For instance, when you start up a new job, you have to wait for five or eight minutes before it starts. If the start-up time is reduced to one or two minutes, it will be great. It will be better to have a direct linkage to Redshift in AWS. If we can use data catalogs from Redshift, it will be so easy to create some data catalogs. Currently, we can only use data catalogs from S3."

"The mapping area and the use of the data catalog from Glue could be better."

"While working on AWS Glue, I could not find any training material for it."

"The interface for AWS Glue could improve, they do not put a lot of details. You can write the code, in PySpark or in Scala, which is a big advantage, it is only easy to use for a developer. It will be difficult for new users to enter the cloud environment."

"There should be more connectors for different databases."

"The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data."

"There is a learning curve to this tool."

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"Lacks intelligent management data and intelligent mappings."

"What I hear from my customers is that it's very expensive compared to the cost of other integration suites. The cost keeps increasing. MuleSoft should come up with customization factors by using a different way of getting the cost-related stuff to attract customers. That is, they should come up with some cost optimizations."

"Code quality, Code Security, SaaS, and DaaS security, can all be improved."

"Pricing is one aspect of the solution that is troublesome. It's too expensive for smaller organizations."

"The price could be improved."

"Technical support needs to be improved, especially when you need help with more technical aspects of the solution."

"The solution is very expensive. They need to work on the pricing."

"Mule should have better B2B integration."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The current cost is around forty to fifty thousand a month."

"I rate pricing an eight out of ten."

"It is not expensive. AWS Glue works on the serverless architecture. We get charged for the time the server is up. For our use case, we have to use it once in a day, and it is not expensive for us."

"AWS Glue is a high-priced solution that bills the client $150,000 to $250,000 annually."

"AWS Glue is a paid service that doesn't come under the free trial of AWS."

"The pricing is a bit higher than other solutions like Athena and EC2. If the pricing becomes more scaled or flexible, it will be good because you have to pay 44 cents just for one DPU for an hour. If you increase DPUs to 5 or 10, the pricing gets multiplied. There are also some time limits like 0 to 10 minutes or 10 to 20 minutes. If the pricing is according to the minutes, it would be better because you have to limit your job to 10 minutes or 20 minutes."

"AWS Glue uses a pay-as-you-go approach which is helpful. The price of the overall solution is low and is a great advantage."

"Technical support is a paid service, and which subscription you have is dependent on that. You must pay one of them, and it ranges from $15,000 to $25,000 per year."

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"The tool's pricing is cheaper than other RPAs' since it is execution-based. Other RPAs charge based on subscriptions."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing as four or five out of ten."

"The licensing is core-based. My customers tell me that it's very expensive compared to the cost of other integration suites."

"The solution is the priciest in the market which is an issue for some clients."

"I rate the product price a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"Price-wise, it is a good product since it is reasonably priced."

"Mule Anypoint Platform is affordable."

"Licensing can be complex as is the case with most iPaaS/cloud offerings."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Educational Organization

22%

Computer Software Company

14%

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Manufacturing Company

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What advice do you have for others considering Mule Anypoint Platform?

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What can Mule Anypoint Platform be used for and what do you use it for most often?

This is a very flexible solution that comes with multiple uses. My organization mostly uses Mule Anypoint Platform for API management, as it lets us build new APIs easily and design new interfaces...

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Overview

AWS Glue is a serverless cloud data integration tool that facilitates the discovery, preparation, movement, and integration of data from multiple sources for machine learning (ML), analytics, and application development. The solution includes additional productivity and data ops tooling for running jobs, implementing business workflows, and authoring.

AWS Glue allows users to connect to more than 70 diverse data sources and manage data in a centralized data catalog. The solution facilitates visual creation, running, and monitoring of extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to load data into users' data lakes. This Amazon product seamlessly integrates with other native applications of the brand and allows users to search and query cataloged data using Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum.

The solution also utilizes application programming interface (API) operations to transform users' data, create runtime logs, store job logic, and create notifications for monitoring job runs. The console of AWS Glue connects all of these services into a managed application, facilitating the monitoring and operational processes. The solution also performs provisioning and management of the resources required to run users' workloads in order to minimize manual work time for organizations.

AWS Glue Features

AWS Glue groups its features into four categories - discover, prepare, integrate, and transform. Within those groups are the following features:

Automatic schema discovery: AWS Glue crawlers connect to the organization's source or target data source through a prioritized list of classifiers to determine the schema for users' data. This feature creates metadata in companies' AWS Glue Data Catalog.
Schemas for data stream management: The AWS Glue Schema Registry enables users to validate and control the evolution of streaming data through registered Apache Avro schemas for no additional charge.
Automatic scaling based on workload: This feature dynamically scales resources up and down based on workload. The feature controls job resources, removing them depending on how much the workload can be split up.
FindMatches: This feature is for machine learning-based data deduplication and cleansing, and works by finding records that are imperfect matches of each other to remove useless data copies.
Edit, debug, and test ETL code: This feature helps users who have chosen to interactively develop their ETL code by providing development endpoints for editing, debugging, and testing the code it generates for them.
AWS Glue DataBrew: An interactive, point-and-click visual interface for specialists to clean and normalize data without the need to write any code.
AWS Glue Interactive Sessions: This feature simplifies the development of data integration jobs by enabling data engineers to interactively prepare and explore data.
AWS Glue Studio Job Notebooks: This AWS Glue feature provides serverless notebooks with minimal setup, allowing developers to start working in a timely manner.
Complex ETL pipeline building: This feature allows the product to be invoked on a schedule, on demand, or based on an event, allowing users to start multiple jobs in parallel or specify dependencies to build complex ETL pipelines.
AWS Glue Studio: This AWS Glue feature allows users to visually transform data through a drag-and-drop interface. The product automatically generates the code for ETL processes for users' data.

AWS Glue Benefits

AWS Glue offers a wide range of benefits for its users. These benefits include:

Users of other AWS products can easily onboard with AWS Glue, as it is integrated across a wide range of the company's services.
The solution is serverless, which allows for a lower total cost of ownership.
AWS Glue offers more power for users, as it automates much of the effort in building, maintaining, and running ETL jobs.
The product allows customers to easily discover and search across all their AWS datasets through AWS Glue Data Catalog.
AWS Glue does not require additional payment for managing and enforcing schemas for data streams.
The solution facilitates the authority of scalable ETL jobs for beginners and non-coding experts through a drag-and-drop interface.

Reviews from Real Users

Mustapha A., a cloud data engineer at Jems Groupe, likes AWS Glue because it is a product that is great for serverless data transformations.

Liana I., CEO at Quark Technologies SRL, describes AWS Glue as a highly scalable, reliable, and beneficial pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Mule Anypoint Platform is a high-ranking solution that creates a communication layer between disparate systems to eliminate integration problems. The product retrieves and stores data streams from any source type, device, or application, both in the cloud and locally. Mule Anypoint Platform solves the most challenging connectivity problems across Software as a Service (SaaS), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and application programming interfaces (APIs) through connectivity, control, and composability. The unified hybrid integration platform achieves this by creating an application network of data, apps, and devices with API-led connectivity.

The solution consists of a set of out-of-the-box connectors that work on any type of system and offers a configuration with low coding effort while minimizing the cost and constraints of hard point-to-point connections. The use cases of Mule Anypoint Platform include:

Utilizing APIs for application delivery: Specialists can use Mule Anypoint Platform to jumpstart application development and take advantage of pre-built assets or utilize APIs built anywhere using their CI/CD pipelines. Companies can build APIs from scratch in diverse protocols and test them with built-in support for Maven and Jenkins.
Flexible deployment: Mule Anypoint Platform can be used in any architecture or environment. The product offers its users flexibility and freedom to select between using MuleSoft's fully managed infrastructure or deployment in popular cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Data protection: The product offers high levels of security and compliance with various standards and policies. It can be utilized by companies for protecting data, microservices, APIs, and integrations without development overheads.
API and service management and monitoring: The product offers an all-in-one platform for users to manage, secure, and scale their APIs as well as troubleshoot and diagnose in real time to detect underlying issues.
Custom marketplace building: Mule Anypoint Platform can be used to facilitate the creation of custom marketplaces for customers, partners, and employees. The product offers pre-built APIs, templates, connectors, accelerators, and other integrations for this purpose.

Mule Anypoint Platform Features

Mule Anypoint Platform consists of features for APIs and integrations that are separated into three categories: API management, integration, and deployment and monitoring. These features include:

Anypoint Flex Gateway: This feature is designed to manage and secure APIs running across any environment.
Anypoint API Governance: This feature ensures consistent API security and quality with self-service tools.
Anypoint API Designer: API Designer offers a visual or code-based guided process for designing, documenting, and testing APIs in any language.
Anypoint Studio: Through this feature, users can accelerate implementation with prebuilt modules for common integration requirements.
Anypoint Connectors: This capacity of the solution allows system integration using a web interface or a desktop-integrated development environment (IDE).
Anypoint Code Builder: This is a new feature of the product that is made for developers to design, develop, and deploy APIs, integrations, and automations from a single environment, utilizing an innovative IDE.
Anypoint Monitoring: Through this feature, users can monitor in real time their integrations, APIs, and microservices all in one place.
Anypoint Runtime Fabric: This is a container service that brings cloud benefits to on-premises deployments both in data centers and on a private cloud.
CloudHub: This is the Platform as a Service (PaaS) component of Mule Anypoint Platform.
Anypoint Security: This feature offers advanced defense for users' APIs and integrations.

Mule Anypoint Platform Benefits

Mule Anypoint Platform offers multiple benefits for companies that utilize its services. Some of the biggest advantages of the product include:

Mule Anypoint Platform reduces development time to deliver efficient resource management from a single platform.
The product improves agility with innovative architecture that adheres to customers' specific needs.
The solution utilizes open technologies that provide customers with reusability, modularity, and collaboration opportunities.
Mule Anypoint Platform comes with automated security and governance that ensures customers' data is protected at enterprise levels.
The product has built-in reliability, visibility, and scalability, which make operations more resilient for users.
The solution is constantly updated and ensures a competitive environment for users through flexible services.

Reviews from Real Users

Michael S., a senior enterprise architect at a tech services company, gives Mule Anypoint Platform a high rating and states that the product is constantly improving to help connect applications, data, and devices.

A senior technical architect at a tech services company likes Mule Anypoint Platform for the good stability with an easy setup and good technical support that the product provides.

Sample Customers

bp, Cerner, Expedia, Finra, HESS, intuit, Kellog's, Philips, TIME, workday

VMware, Gucci, MasterCard, Target, Time Inc, Hershey's, Tesla, Spotify, Office Depot, Intuit, CBS, Amtrak, Salesforce, Gap, Ralph Lauren

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