We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Fivetran 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."I like the fact that AWS Glue works with Python scripts."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"I also like that you can add custom libraries like JAR files and use them. So, the ability to use a fast processing engine and embed basic jobs easily are significant advantages."
"The facility to integrate with S3 and the possibility to use Jupyter Notebook inside the pipeline are the most valuable features."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"Glue is a NoSQL-based data ETL tool that has some advantages over IIS and ISAs."
"The solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"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 ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's very easy and quick to set up. It also has a central hub as opposed to GoldenGate which is one direct interface. For GoldenGate I would have needed three interfaces whereas with HVR I have a central interface that manages everything."
"The product has some seamless connectors, which are readily available."
"Fivetran's most valuable feature is replication."
"SysTrack load is the best feature."
"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"You can manage all of your connectors individually, which gives you a very good ability to trace which one of your ETL processes is running and when."
"The product is very easy to use and very easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature of Fivetran is that it only synchronizes what needs to be synchronized."
"There should be more connectors for different databases."
"On occasion, the solution's dashboard reports that a project failed due to runtime but it actually succeeded."
"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."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"Cost-wise, AWS Glue is expensive, so that's an area for improvement. The process for setting up the solution was also complex, which is another area for improvement."
"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."
"In terms of performance, if they can further optimize the execution time for serverless jobs, it would be a welcome improvement."
"Overall, I consider the technical support to be fine, although the response time could be faster in certain cases."
"Some of the pain points we're looking at are trying to integrate some of the items in the Microsoft stack, so SharePoint and Excel, and then some of the newer Azure services."
"The solution is very expensive. I would like to have a better integration of the solution with Azure."
"The documentation is decent, but it's hard to find information online about Fivetran. For example, if you try to search for an error code, you won't find much information about it in forums."
"The customization could improve because Fivetran gives more thought to people who don't want to manage analytics workflows rather than engineers who want to be able to customize pipelines more thoroughly."
"The documentation can be laid out better to make it easier to find things, and I really wish there was built-in support for changing passwords. Some features don't work as advertised for the platform/repository database, and HVR is not always the fastest at getting results."
"Fivetran would be improved by adding the ability to integrate the data from third-party APIs."
"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."
"HVR Software's technical support could be improved. Whenever we log a case, the response that we get from the support is a bit delayed."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Fivetran is ranked 6th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Fivetran 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 Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and Informatica PowerCenter. See our AWS Glue vs. Fivetran report.
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