We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and webMethods Integration Server 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."AWS Glue is a stable and easy-to-use solution."
"One of the best features of the solution is its ability to easily integrate with other AWS services."
"The most valuable features currently are glue studio, jobs, and triggers."
"The solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"AWS Glue is quite better than other tools, but you have to learn it properly before you start using it."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"The key role for Glue is that it hosts our metadata before rolling out our actual data. This is the major advantage of using this solution and our clients client have been very satisfied with it."
"It is AWS-integrated. There is end-to-end integration with the other AWS services. It is also user-friendly."
"The comprehensiveness and depth of Integration Servers' connectors to packaged apps and custom apps is unlimited. They have a connector for everything. If they don't, you can build it yourself. Or oftentimes, if there is value for other customers as well, you can talk with webMethods about creating a new adapter for you."
"Operationally, I consider the solution to be quite good."
"The ease of mapping... is the single largest feature. It gives us the ability to craft anything. A lot of single-purpose technologies, like Mirth, are good for healthcare messages, but we use webMethods not only for healthcare messages but for other business-related purposes, like integrations to Salesforce or integrations to Office 365. It's multi-purpose nature is very strong."
"The messaging part is the most valuable feature."
"When it comes to the user interface, I'm already really used to it. I cannot say anything against it. For me, it's easy to use."
"Broker and UM are the best features."
"A product with good API and EDI components."
"It's obvious that the heart of the product lies here. It's comprised of all aspects of ESB (Enterprise Gateway, Adapter, TN, Java) and BPM (task, rules engine)."
"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."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"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."
"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."
"The start-up time is really high right now. For instance, when you start up a new job, you have to wait for five or eight minutes before it starts. If the start-up time is reduced to one or two minutes, it will be great. It will be better to have a direct linkage to Redshift in AWS. If we can use data catalogs from Redshift, it will be so easy to create some data catalogs. Currently, we can only use data catalogs from S3."
"I haven't looked into Glue in terms of seeking out flaws. I've not come across missing features."
"While working on AWS Glue, I could not find any training material for it."
"In terms of performance, if they can further optimize the execution time for serverless jobs, it would be a welcome improvement."
"wM SAP Adapter User Guide - Example, like Message Broker setup was unclear, leading to issues during Testing and we had refer the internet forums to understand that there is a Message Broker Cleanup utility and that needs to be setup as well."
"Need to see more API portal features like monetizing APIs and private cloud readiness."
"Forced migration from MessageBroker to Universal Messaging requires large scale reimplementation for JMS."
"I would like to have a dashboard where I can see all of the communication between components and the configuration."
"The installation process should be simplified for first time users and be made more user-friendly."
"t doesn't represent OOP very well, just a method and proprietary interface called IData."
"As webMethods Integration Server is expensive, that's its area for improvement."
"Documentation needs tuning. There is a lot of dependency with SoftwareAG. Even with the documentation at hand, you can struggle to implement scenarios without SAG’s help. By contrast, IBM’s documentation is self-explanatory, in my opinion."
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AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while webMethods Integration Server 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 webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi AtomSphere Integration. See our AWS Glue vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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