We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and IBM App Connect 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."The facility to integrate with S3 and the possibility to use Jupyter Notebook inside the pipeline are the most valuable features."
"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."
"Our entire use case was very easily handled or solved using this solution."
"It is AWS-integrated. There is end-to-end integration with the other AWS services. It is also user-friendly."
"Its user interface is quite good. You just need to choose some options to create a job in AWS Glue. The code-generation feature is also useful. If you don't want to customize it and simply want to read a file and store the data in the database, it can generate the code for you."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"The product has a valuable feature for data catalog."
"The solution is highly user-friendly, and its features are easy to use. The new addition of AWS Glue Data Catalog is also very beneficial, making the tool even more helpful for its users."
"Provides good security features."
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."
"It has an efficient design flow."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."
"It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved. In future, we would like to connect more services like Athena or Kinesis to help control more loads of data."
"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."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"Glue could perform better. It sometimes takes too long to test a Glue job. Google Cloud Platform offers more Python scripts than AWS."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The product has only a few built-in transformations."
"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."
"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."
"The product should improve its support."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while IBM App Connect is rated 8.2. 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 IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks. See our AWS Glue vs. IBM App Connect report.
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