We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and SAS Data Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), MuleSoft, Matillion and others in Cloud Data Integration."AWS Glue is quite better than other tools, but you have to learn it properly before you start using it."
"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."
"Glue is a NoSQL-based data ETL tool that has some advantages over IIS and ISAs."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Our entire use case was very easily handled or solved using this solution."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature."
"AWS Glue is a stable and easy-to-use solution."
"The solution offers very good data manipulation and loading."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its amazing capabilities in regard to data handling."
"The solution is very stable."
"AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"It would be better if it were more user-friendly. The interesting thing we found is that it was a little strange at the beginning. The way Glue works is not very straightforward. After trying different things, for example, we used just the console to create jobs. Then we realized that things were not working as expected. After researching and learning more, we realized that even though the console creates the script for the ETL processes, you need to modify or write your own script in Spark to do everything you want it to do. For example, we are pulling data from our source database and our application database, which is in Aurora. From there, we are doing the ETL to transform the data and write the results into Redshift. But what was surprising is that it's almost like whatever you want to do, you can do it with Glue because you have the option to put together your own script. Even though there are many functionalities and many connections, you have the opportunity to write your own queries to do whatever transformations you need to do. It's a little deceiving that some options are supposed to work in a certain way when you set them up in the console, but then they are not exactly working the right way or not as expected. It would be better if they provided more examples and more documentation on options."
"The crucial problem with AWS Glue is that it only works with AWS. It is not an agnostic tool like Pentaho. In PowerCenter, we can install the forms from Google and other vendors, but in the case of AWS Glue, we can only use AWS."
"On occasion, the solution's dashboard reports that a project failed due to runtime but it actually succeeded."
"The mapping area and the use of the data catalog from Glue could be better."
"AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow."
"The product is expensive for data streaming. This area needs improvement."
"The transform tool has limited access. They should make it more flexible."
"So I would like to see improved integration with other software."
"The initial setup of SAS Data Integration Server was complex."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while SAS Data Integration Server is ranked 34th in Data Integration with 3 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while SAS Data Integration Server is rated 7.4. 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 SAS Data Integration Server writes "A stable and scalable tool with data handling capabilities and an amazing technical support". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas SAS Data Integration Server is most compared with Palantir Foundry, SSIS, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Azure Data Factory and AWS Database Migration Service.
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