We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Fivetran 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."Transformations are valuable because you can modify or override complex data logic from an open source or Spark to solve issues."
"The solution integrates well with other AWS products or services."
"AWS Glue is a good solution for developers, they have the ability to write code in different languages and other software."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"Glue is a NoSQL-based data ETL tool that has some advantages over IIS and ISAs."
"The solution is serverless so it allows us to transform data while optimizing the cost and performance of Spark jobs."
"The product has a valuable feature for data catalog."
"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"For us, Fivetran has been able to scale both in terms of the data we bring into our warehouse and the amount of data that we use as well."
"Making the decision to implement Fivetran was supported by the fact that they have better connectors than other competitors."
"It is not like a traditional ETL, but it gives quite a lot of flexibility."
"The general data ingestion is valuable. It's used for a lot of data. It provides about 90% of the data we use in our data warehouse without needing data engineering."
"The compare feature is the most valuable piece of it."
"Fivetran's most valuable feature is replication."
"The simplicity of the solution is its valuable feature."
"The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data."
"AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud."
"I haven't looked into Glue in terms of seeking out flaws. I've not come across missing features."
"Cost-wise, AWS Glue is expensive, so that's an area for improvement. The process for setting up the solution was also complex, which is another area for improvement."
"The monitoring is not that good."
"The product has only a few built-in transformations."
"The solution could be cheaper. The price of the solution is an area that needs improvement."
"AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"Some of the pain points we're looking at are trying to integrate some of the items in the Microsoft stack, so SharePoint and Excel, and then some of the newer Azure services."
"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."
"We experience cost issues because Fivetran is charged on a usage basis. When you reach a certain level, the tool should focus on reducing the costs. The solution is expensive when you are moving gigabytes and petabytes of data. It should also focus more on REST APIs and webhooks."
"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."
"The customization could improve because Fivetran gives more thought to people who don't want to manage analytics workflows rather than engineers who want to be able to customize pipelines more thoroughly."
"The connections with SAP must be improved."
"Fivetran is very expensive for data sources with a lot of rows, such as email data. I would like to see cheaper pricing for data sources like that."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Fivetran is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Integration with 19 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Fivetran is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Glue writes "Provides serverless mechanism, easy data transformation and automated infrastructure management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our AWS Glue vs. Fivetran report.
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