We performed a comparison between AWS AppSync and AWS Glue 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."Support for multiple data sources and formats is a fantastic feature."
"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."
"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."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"Transformations are valuable because you can modify or override complex data logic from an open source or Spark to solve issues."
"The product has a valuable feature for data catalog."
"I like its integration and ability to handle all data-related tasks."
"The solution's technical support is good. Whenever we raise a use case where we face an issue in our company, we get a response from the solution's technical team."
"The facility to integrate with S3 and the possibility to use Jupyter Notebook inside the pipeline are the most valuable features."
"Moving to other clouds is impossible without significantly rearchitecting your applications."
"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."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The interface for AWS Glue could improve, they do not put a lot of details. You can write the code, in PySpark or in Scala, which is a big advantage, it is only easy to use for a developer. It will be difficult for new users to enter the cloud environment."
"AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud."
"It fails to handle massive databases acquired from various sources."
"There is a learning curve to this tool."
"The solution's visual ETL tool is of no use for actual implementation."
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AWS AppSync is ranked 25th in Cloud Data Integration while AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews. AWS AppSync is rated 9.0, while AWS Glue is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AWS AppSync writes "Innovative, works well with GraphQL, and can connect to any type of data source". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Glue writes "Provides serverless mechanism, easy data transformation and automated infrastructure management". AWS AppSync is most compared with Oracle Integration Cloud Service, Workato and Perspectium DataSync, whereas AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio.
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