AWS Glue vs SharePlex comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Quest Software are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Additionally, 90% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

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AWS Glue

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We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and SharePlex based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Glue

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

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SharePlex

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

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Data Integration (49th)

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Sridivya Chillappa

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.

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Kristopher Wells

Oracle DBA at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It reduces the downtime and migration time exponentially

I would rate SharePlex's high availability, and disaster recovery features highly. It works as advertised in terms of rapid fill-over and switch-over opportunities. It reduces the migration time for a multi-terabyte database to an hour or less because it performs real-time replication. SharePlex reduces downtime and migration time exponentially. Something that could take 12 to 24 hours is cut down to one to two hours. By the time you start to migrate, the only remaining replication is a slight difference in data from the point when SharePlex has shut down, and the application has to also switch over to the new database. It allowed the company to replicate data more transparently. Some of the business executives probably don't even know it's there. It works 100 percent of the time, with little downtime or problems. It provides what is needed. There's little concern about whether or not it functions. It's allowed the company to achieve its objectives with its clients, reducing and minimizing downtime for substantial migrations and upgrades. It can reduce hardware and storage costs, but my company doesn't utilize it with high-availability architecture.

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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 most valuable features currently are glue studio, jobs, and triggers."

"AWS Glue has reduced efforts by 60%, which is the main benefit."

"AWS Glue is a highly stable solution."

"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."

"It's very good to manage."

"The key role of Glue is that it hosts our metadata before rolling out our actual data, which is a major advantage of using this solution and our clients have been very satisfied with it."

"In my opinion, it is one of the best tools in the market for ETL processes because of the fact that you pay as you use, which separates it from other big tools such as PowerCenter, Pentaho Data Integration, and Talend."

"Glue is a NoSQL-based data ETL tool that has some advantages over IIS and ISAs."

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"The core replication and its performance, which is by far the fastest, along with the way it handles replication to multiple targets with basic filtering and from multiple sources to a single target, is very efficient."

"SharePlex has been a good fit for us because it was not as expensive compared to GoldenGate, it was stable compared to AWS DMS, and it was a good product for what we were looking for and within our budget too."

"I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."

"The core features of the solution we like are the reliability of the data transfer and the accuracy of data read and write. The stability of the solution is also excellent."

"The synchronization, data backup, and data transfer are all valuable features of the solution."

"It works 100 percent of the time, with little downtime or problems."

"Try it out in your production and you won't be disappointed."

"There are some capabilities within SharePlex where you can see how the data is migrating and if it still maintains good data integrity. For example, if there are some tables that get out of sync, there are ways to find them and fix the problem on the spot. Since these are very common issues, we can easily fix these types of problems using utilities, like compare and repair. So, if you find something is out of sync, then you can just repair that table. It basically syncs that table from source to target to see if there are any differences. It will then replicate those differences to the target."

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Cons

"The solution's visual ETL tool is of no use for actual implementation."

"In terms of performance, if they can further optimize the execution time for serverless jobs, it would be a welcome improvement."

"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."

"The interface for AWS Glue could improve, they do not put a lot of details."

"On occasion, the solution's dashboard reports that a project failed due to runtime but it actually succeeded."

"I would like to see stable libraries at the moment they are not there."

"There should be more connectors for different databases."

"AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow."

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"I don't know how easy it would be to change the architecture in an already implemented replication."

"I would like the solution to have some kind of machine learning and AI capabilities."

"The reporting features need improvement."

"I don't know how easy it would be to change the architecture in an already implemented replication. For example, if we have a certain way of architecting for a particular database migration and want to change that during a period of time, is that an easy or difficult change? There was a need for us to change the architecture in-between the migration, but we didn't do it. We thought, "This is possibly complicated. Let's not change it in the middle because we were approaching our cutover date." That was one thing that we should have checked with support about for training."

"For its function in relation to replication (i.e. filtering), I'd give it a six or seven out of 10. GoldenGate has much more functionality by comparison."

"I would like the solution to have some kind of machine learning and AI capabilities. Often, if we want to improve the performance of posting, we have to bump up a parameter. That means we need to stop the process, come up with a figure that we want to bump the parameter up to, and then start SharePlex. Machine learning and AI capabilities for these kinds of improvement would tremendously help boost productivity for us."

"I would like more ability to automate installation and configuration in line with some of the DevOps processes that are more mature in the market."

"For its function in relation to replication (i.e. filtering), I'd give it a six or seven out of 10. GoldenGate has much more functionality by comparison."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"I rate the tool an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is expensive."

"The overall cost of AWS Glue could be better. It cost approximately $1,000 a month. There is paid support available from AWS Glue."

"This solution is affordable and there is an option to pay for the solution based on your usage."

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

"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."

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"It's really good value for the money. There are some things they could improve on, but in terms of the pricing, features, and support, as a holistic package, we are not thinking of anything else at this point in time."

"It is not as expensive as Oracle GoldenGate and has worked really well within our budgets."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

11%

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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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SharePlex delivers robust database replication and migration capabilities, emphasizing performance, synchronization, and data integrity management. Supporting high availability and real-time data syncing, it serves organizations handling vast transaction volumes, especially in IoT data processing.

SharePlex offers reliable data transfer and efficient multi-target replication. Its features like Compare and Repair utilities assist in maintaining data consistency. With PEP fostering scalability for large transactions, it caters to businesses aiming to cut down migration windows and minimize outages. Users employ SharePlex in real-time syncing and failover scenarios across data centers, crucial for handling extensive transaction data during migrations or upgrades.

What are SharePlex's key features?

Core Replication: Ensures reliable data synchronization across multiple targets.
Data Integrity Management: Maintains accuracy during reading and writing processes.
Compare and Repair Utilities: Facilitate data consistency checks and fixes.
PEP: Enhances performance for large transaction volumes.

Why consider SharePlex for your database needs?

Scalability: Supports large-scale transactions with efficiency.
Minimized Downtime: Provides continuous data availability during operations.
Business Continuity: Enables seamless failover and data center transitions.
Real-time Syncing: Supports time-sensitive data processing requirements.

Organizations in sectors like finance and telecommunications implement SharePlex to maintain uninterrupted operations and ensure quick recovery times. By facilitating database migrations to cloud platforms like AWS, they achieve reduced downtime and enhanced operational efficiency, catering to the rigorous demands of data-driven industries.

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