We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Informatica Cloud Data Integration based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: For users vested in the AWS ecosystem, AWS is hands down the best choice. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is flexible and allows users to decide how to distribute their IPUs in their own networks. Data residency laws make it challenging to choose this solution, as their regions are currently very limited.
"AWS Glue's most valuable features are the data catalog, including crawlers and tables, and Glue Studio, which means you don't have to use custom code."
"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."
"AWS Glue is a stable and easy-to-use solution."
"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."
"The facility to integrate with S3 and the possibility to use Jupyter Notebook inside the pipeline are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is scalability."
"Data synchronization tasks."
"It has a more UI-based tool, and the scripting is good."
"The product is scalable and excellent for enterprise-level organizations."
"I like the fact that you can find almost any product connection that you need and the list is always expanding."
"The Mapping Designer allows for declarative ETL development (visual scripting) that leverages a wide array of different transformations."
"It is one of the best tools available for data integration."
"The most valuable features of the solution are pushdown, optimization, and partitioning, which can be used for frequent data loading, especially when we have a huge data volume in our company."
"The most valuable feature is the building of mockups and tasks."
"I would like to see a more robust interface on the no-code side. This would be nice to be able to split cells."
"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved. In future, we would like to connect more services like Athena or Kinesis to help control more loads of data."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data."
"The vendor should have more training resources: online classes, free tutorial videos, etc."
"The cloud version could be better in terms of pricing."
"Certain shortcomings in the product's UI make it an area where improvements are required."
"It needs to be a little more intuitive but it’s really not bad."
"Cost-wise, it could be better."
"The current features are a bit complicated, and we need to write big scripts and test."
"There is room for improvement at the highest level in terms of useability and connectors for various types of new applications. The row processing performance could be better because you experience some latency dealing with high volumes of data. Most organizations will be dealing with multiple cloud applications, so you could see performance issues moving from one system to another."
"While my company operates on the cloud, we have seen that Informatica Cloud Data Integration has some performance issues causing it to lag."
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AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Informatica Cloud Data Integration 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 Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Talend Open Studio and Oracle Integration Cloud Service, whereas Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, Fivetran, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our AWS Glue vs. Informatica Cloud Data Integration report.
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