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."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is scalability."
"AWS Glue's best features are scalability and cloud-based features."
"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."
"AWS Glue is a stable and easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable features currently are glue studio, jobs, and triggers."
"The solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"It is AWS-integrated. There is end-to-end integration with the other AWS services. It is also user-friendly."
"One of the best features of the solution is its ability to easily integrate with other AWS services."
"Moving to other clouds is impossible without significantly rearchitecting your applications."
"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"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."
"AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow."
"Only people who can code, either in Java or Python, can use the product freely. Those who don't know Java or Python might find using AWS Glue difficult."
"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."
"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."
"The monitoring is not that good."
"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."
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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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