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AWS Glue vs ETL Solutions Transformation Manager comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Glue
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (1st)
ETL Solutions Transformatio...
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (53rd)
 

Featured Reviews

SC
application security engineer at Hyperspace IT India
Efficient data integration reduces operational time and enhances metadata management
For the initial setup with AWS Glue, I find it easy to set up the data catalog and create Glue jobs using the visual editor or the visual code. Setting permission sets via IAM rules can be a bit tricky at the start, but we ensure Glue has access to AWS S3, Redshift, and other services. Once the role is configured, it runs smoothly. For advanced configurations, connecting to VPCs and setting up connections with JDBC sources takes more time compared to my cloud experience, but overall, for someone with cloud and ETL experience, the setup is manageable and well done.
Vijayraj Amin - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Growth Strategist at MAIORA
User-friendly and accessible for anyone with computer knowledge and logical thinking
There is room for improvement in the solution's visualization tool. Currently, it provides basic reports and the ability to create graphs and dashboards, but I'm looking forward to more robust analytics. The plan is to enhance this feature in 2024, around Q2 or Q3, which would save us from relying on external tools like Power BI for insights.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For ETL, I feel the performance is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature."
"It's very good to manage."
"AWS Glue is fast and managed by AWS. Hence, you don't have to worry about capacity and the performance of Glue jobs. It has integrations with other data stores of AWS. The product offers metadata management, logging, and ETL processing capabilities. It comes with a powerful feature, Glue Studio, which helps to do queries interactively within the community. It is a managed service and very secure. Another popular and mature service is S3."
"The facility to integrate with S3 and the possibility to use Jupyter Notebook inside the pipeline are the most valuable features."
"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."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"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."
"Back in the day, we could only get reports and analyze what happened after the fact, but today now we can generate real-time insights. Transformation Manager feeds your data science projects. We generate models and then give them to the clients, so they can come up with real-time predictions and recommendations in addition to reporting."
"Transformation Manager is the backbone of every data pipeline these days because the solution has been on the market for 20 to 30 years, and we use it for various industries, including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, etc."
"It is among the best, even if not widely known."
"It is a reliable solution."
 

Cons

"The solution needs to expand its 30-minute query or runtime."
"The crucial problem with AWS Glue is that it only works with AWS."
"The solution could be cheaper. The price of the solution is an area that needs improvement."
"Not enough resources or services are available to run managed Spark jobs within the solution."
"Currently, it supports only two languages in the background: Python and Scala. From our customization point of view, it would be helpful if it can also support Java in the background."
"The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data."
"The solution’s technical support could be improved."
"AWS Glue should be more reliable and faster in processing. Enhancing the speed of data processing would be beneficial."
"We get decent support. It's okay but not great."
"Transformation Manager reporting could be better. There are better options for reporting tools these days. We use Microsoft BI sometimes, but Tableau is becoming too expensive. Microsoft BI's visualization features are maturing."
"There is room for improvement in the solution's visualization tool."
"They should build a functional architecture based on queuing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AWS Glue is quite costly, especially for small organizations."
"I rate the product's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price."
"It is an expensive product. I rate its pricing a nine out of ten."
"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."
"AWS Glue is a high-priced solution that bills the client $150,000 to $250,000 annually."
"If you are using the solution for an enterprise business, it will be expensive."
"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."
"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."
"It is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Construction Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Retailer
7%
 

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Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise34
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