We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Zapier 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."Glue is a NoSQL-based data ETL tool that has some advantages over IIS and ISAs."
"We no longer had to worry much about infrastructure management because AWS Glue is serverless, and Amazon takes care of the underlying infrastructure."
"It is AWS-integrated. There is end-to-end integration with the other AWS services. It is also user-friendly."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop 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."
"Data catalog and triggers are the two best features for me. AWS Glue has its own data catalog, which makes it great and really easy to use. Triggers are also really good for scheduling the ETL process."
"I like that it's flexible, powerful, and allows you to write your own queries and scripts to get the needed transformations."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is very intuitive and has a very flat learning curve."
"The initial setup is pretty easy to do."
"Zapier is user friendly and makes it easy to integrate different tools. It has a drag and drop functionality which makes it easy to connect environments."
"We find it effortless to set up. We really don't have to do anything other than finding the application in the Zapier catalog. And as long as the application has been re-integrated into Zapier, they're able to then just provide the connection details and hook it up."
"Zapier's interface, for me, is the solution's greatest value proposition. It is designed and developed for people who don't have a clue about what they're trying to do. It has a very user-friendly interface."
"There are a few valuable features, like the stability that it comes with and also the number of features that it offers. I've used other services like Pabbly, but they don't offer similar numbers of applications that Zapier has or allows to integrate with – it's maximum."
"The product's most valuable feature is automation."
"The most valuable feature of Zapier is it saves me time doing repetitive tasks."
"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow."
"While working on AWS Glue, I could not find any training material for it."
"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."
"The solution could be cheaper. The price of the solution is an area that needs improvement."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The solution does not work properly when we apply filters and we get errors."
"It could support various languages along with Python."
"The pricing of the solution is quite expensive."
"It is not worth the money if you have a little bit of a technical mind...Zapier is not able to set up different modules. When automation doesn't work, it's not that easy to find why it didn't work."
"After mapping them out, and they'd worked for a while, I've had Zapier fail."
"At the moment, they allow a limited number of apps. I look forward to getting more apps for each package."
"I think that this solution should have more apps connected to it."
"System-to-system is fine, but when it comes to system-to-user, where Zapier is helping to communicate to a user, that's a one-way communication. If that user has to perform some action on that notification, the action isn't handled by Zapier. So there's no way to orchestrate that and it's very cumbersome."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Zapier is ranked 10th in Cloud Data Integration with 41 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Zapier is rated 8.6. 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 Zapier writes "A tool for automation purposes requiring an easy initial setup while offering a very helpful technical support team ". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, SSIS and Talend Open Studio, whereas Zapier is most compared with Alteryx Designer, Tray.io, Coefficient, MuleSoft Composer and Coupler.io. See our AWS Glue vs. Zapier report.
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