We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and SSIS based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Of the two solutions, SSIS is slightly more favored by users because they report a positive ROI.
"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'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."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"AWS Glue is a good solution for developers, they have the ability to write code in different languages and other software."
"The solution integrates well with other AWS products or services."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"Glue is a NoSQL-based data ETL tool that has some advantages over IIS and ISAs."
"The solution is stable."
"It's a competent product."
"The scalability of SSIS is good."
"The most valuable thing is that it is easy to connect with Microsoft tools. In Europe, particularly in France, a lot of companies use Excel, SQL Server, and other Microsoft tools, and it is easier to connect SSIS with Microsoft tools than other products."
"Like most Microsoft products, SSIS is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The initial setup of this solution is very straightforward."
"In SSIS, the scope is not only to handle ETL challenges, but it will allow us to do so many other tasks, such as DBA activities, scripting, calling any .exe or scripts, etc."
"SSIS is an easy way to do data integration from various data sources. It doesn't matter whether it's a database, flat files, XML, or Web API. It can talk to the and join them all together."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"While working on AWS Glue, I could not find any training material for it."
"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."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"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."
"I would like to see a more robust interface on the no-code side. This would be nice to be able to split cells."
"The product is expensive for data streaming. This area needs improvement."
"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."
"Sometimes we need to connect to AWS to get additional data sources, so we have to install some external LAN and not a regular RDBMS. We need external tools to connect. It would be great if SSIS included these tools. I'd also like some additional features for row indexing and data conversion."
"Microsoft's technical support has decreased in quality over the last few years, becoming less responsive and tending to pass problems on instead of solving them."
"I come from a coding background and this tool is graphically based. Sometimes I think it's cumbersome to do mapping graphically. If there was a way to provide a simple script, it would be helpful and make it easier to use."
"We'd like them to develop data exploration more."
"Improving the login procedure would make our reporting easier on monitoring our ETL processes."
"The solution could improve on integrating with other types of data sources."
"I would like to see more standard components out of the box, such as SFTP, and Data Compression components."
"SSIS should be made a little bit more intuitive and user-friendly because it needs an expert-level person to work on it."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 69 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while SSIS is rated 7.6. 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 SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Talend Open Studio and Oracle Integration Cloud Service, whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Azure Data Factory. See our AWS Glue vs. SSIS report.
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