We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Workato 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."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."
"Glue is a NoSQL-based data ETL tool that has some advantages over IIS and ISAs."
"AWS Glue is quite better than other tools, but you have to learn it properly before you start using it."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"I like the fact that AWS Glue works with Python scripts."
"AWS Glue is a stable and easy-to-use solution."
"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 for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"The most valuable features are easy integration, quick tab to develop, quick tab to market, and interactive integration platform."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is easier to use than other technical open-source technologies."
"It is very easy to use. It takes complex workloads away, and it provides very smooth integration. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box connectors. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box APIs, which makes it really easy to integrate with applications for different use cases, whether it is in finance, HR, or customer operations. It is by far our favorite integration product."
"Their automation and workflows are very strong, and you can build the workflows very easily and quickly."
"It's easy to understand, makes flows and is efficient."
"Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use."
"I would like to see stable libraries at the moment they are not there."
"Currently, it supports only two languages in the background: Python and Scala. From our customization point of view, it would be helpful if it can also support Java in the background."
"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."
"On occasion, the solution's dashboard reports that a project failed due to runtime but it actually succeeded."
"It fails to handle massive databases acquired from various sources."
"I haven't looked into Glue in terms of seeking out flaws. I've not come across missing features."
"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"The mapping area and the use of the data catalog from Glue could be better."
"I would like to see the dashboarding and reporting processes improved."
"It is tedious to make a tailor-fit function."
"From the deployment point of view, our customers encounter platform downtime where it does not serve the actual request on the systems."
"The management dashboard in the solution is an area with shortcomings that needs improvement."
"Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations."
"A limitation is that their cloud presence is only in North America and Europe."
"The only minor drawback would be if there was a UI at the front of it, for apps and for a portal as well, it would make it really easy. It would be really useful if there were more apps capabilities."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Workato is ranked 8th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 9 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Workato is rated 8.4. 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 Workato writes " Great automation and strong workflows useful for integration". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas Workato is most compared with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, MuleSoft Composer, Azure Data Factory, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Fivetran.
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