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

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Pros
"I like that it's flexible, powerful, and allows you to write your own queries and scripts to get the needed transformations.""The solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data.""Our entire use case was very easily handled or solved using this solution.""It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated.""The solution is stable and reliable.""The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is its ease of use and good documentation. Additionally, we can do all the transformations that we need.""The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature.""The solution is serverless so it allows us to transform data while optimizing the cost and performance of Spark jobs."

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"Low-code development is the most valuable feature.""It's very user-friendly and designed to be easy to use for the end user.""I like the tool's optimization feature.""Extremely flexible for any kind of integration between systems.""The Salesforce and NetSuite Application specific “connectors” provide a layer of abstraction on top of the SOAP-based APIs to streamline integration development.""This solution has a user-friendly interface and very good documentation with solutions that helped us in working with the tool efficiently.""The connection configuration part and the drag-and-drop integration module are the most valuable features for me.""AtomSphere Integration will suit those looking for small automation and simple integrations."

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Cons
"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.""The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data.""The monitoring is not that good.""If there's a cluster-related configuration, we have to make worker notes, which is quite a headache when processing a large amount of data.""AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud.""I would like to see stable libraries at the moment they are not there.""AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow.""One area that could be improved is the ETL view. The drag-and-drop interface is not as user-friendly as some other ETL tools."

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"Documentation could be improved.""There are still some areas that need improvement. For example, when updates are going on, the product becomes very slow.""There is no validation in the mapping profile custom scripting, such as IntelliSense or advanced error checking.""We would like to see more involvement between Dell Boomi and the end-users to help improve the customer experience.""It is a costly platform. Its pricing could be better.""The deployment was simple, but the implementation is missing a lot of capabilities.""The solution is complex. There's a few items and features that are hard to understand. They should work to simplify the functionality so new users don't struggle.""They need to introduce more configurable functions to remove scripting or coding. Scripting should be minimized. It should have exhaustive functions. Currently, it lacks in this aspect."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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."
  • "It is not expensive. AWS Glue works on the serverless architecture. We get charged for the time the server is up. For our use case, we have to use it once in a day, and it is not expensive for us."
  • "Its price is good. We pay as we go or based on the usage, which is a good thing for us because it is simple to forecast for the tool. It is good in terms of the financial planning of the company, and it is a good way to estimate the cost. It is also simple for our clients. 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."
  • "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."
  • "This solution is affordable and there is an option to pay for the solution based on your usage."
  • "AWS Glue is quite costly, especially for small organizations."
  • "AWS Glue uses a pay-as-you-go approach which is helpful. The price of the overall solution is low and is a great advantage."
  • "The overall cost of AWS Glue could be better. It cost approximately $1,000 a month. There is paid support available from AWS Glue."
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  • "The Platinum package is good for licensing, but I’m not sure about the cost and improvements."
  • "They do not charge by the number of people using the software (client-server model), but rather they charge based on the number of connections used. This makes it very cost effective."
  • "The licensing model of Dell Boomi is based on a ‘pay-per-use’ model."
  • "This solution is very economical (based on the connections)."
  • "The pricing is a bit complex. While the entry fee may be lower than other solutions, it could be expensive depending on your usage."
  • "When it comes to pricing, it's not so much about being less expensive as it is about how they don't tie to the hardware on the underlined VMware that you run on, as other vendors do"
  • "The cost of the solution is in the neighborhood of $20,000 annually. There are no costs above the standard licensing fee."
  • "Approximately 20k annually."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:AWS Glue and Azure Data factory for ELT best performance cloud services.
    Top Answer:We reviewed AWS Glue before choosing Talend Open Studio. AWS Glue is the managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) from Amazon Web Services. AWS Glue enables AWS users to create and manage jobs in… more »
    Top Answer:AWS Glue's main use case is for allowing users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. The product lets you use this data for analytics, application development, or… more »
    Top Answer:I have worked as an Integration Architect/Developer for many years and have used Mulesoft, Boomi, Informatica, Workato, Celigo, SSIS and many other integration tools.  The tool you would pick depends… more »
    Top Answer:The tool's most valuable features I've found are related to debugging and testing. It makes it easy to track execution, documents, and process history. This functionality is particularly useful for… more »
    Top Answer:Boomi AtomSphere Integration is a relatively cheap and cost-effective product compared to other products like SAP or Oracle. I don't know the exact price of the product.
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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.

    The Boomi AtomSphere integration platform as a service (iPaaS) supports all your application integration processes – between cloud platforms, software-as-a-service applications, and on-premises systems. Your entire team has online access to a powerful range of integration and data management capabilities, that can be realized in a fraction of the time of legacy middleware technologies.

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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company47%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Pharma/Biotech Company12%
    Consumer Goods Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Insurance Company7%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Outsourcing Company8%
    Retailer8%
    Recruiting/Hr Firm8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Retailer6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise54%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Boomi iPaaS is ranked 5th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 25 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Boomi iPaaS is rated 7.8. 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 Boomi iPaaS writes "Stable product, suitable for limited integrations and lacks flexibility ". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas Boomi iPaaS is most compared with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, webMethods Integration Server, SSIS, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Azure Data Factory.

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