We performed a comparison between AWS AppSync and AWS Glue based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), MuleSoft, Matillion and others in Cloud Data Integration."Support for multiple data sources and formats is a fantastic feature."
"AWS Glue is a good solution for developers, they have the ability to write code in different languages and other software."
"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 solution integrates well with other AWS products or services."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"AWS Glue's best features are scalability and cloud-based features."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"Our entire use case was very easily handled or solved using this solution."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"Moving to other clouds is impossible without significantly rearchitecting your applications."
"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."
"It would be better if it were more user-friendly. The interesting thing we found is that it was a little strange at the beginning. The way Glue works is not very straightforward. After trying different things, for example, we used just the console to create jobs. Then we realized that things were not working as expected. After researching and learning more, we realized that even though the console creates the script for the ETL processes, you need to modify or write your own script in Spark to do everything you want it to do. For example, we are pulling data from our source database and our application database, which is in Aurora. From there, we are doing the ETL to transform the data and write the results into Redshift. But what was surprising is that it's almost like whatever you want to do, you can do it with Glue because you have the option to put together your own script. Even though there are many functionalities and many connections, you have the opportunity to write your own queries to do whatever transformations you need to do. It's a little deceiving that some options are supposed to work in a certain way when you set them up in the console, but then they are not exactly working the right way or not as expected. It would be better if they provided more examples and more documentation on options."
"The solution's visual ETL tool is of no use for actual implementation."
"Overall, I consider the technical support to be fine, although the response time could be faster in certain cases."
"The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data."
"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."
"The product has only a few built-in transformations."
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AWS AppSync is ranked 25th in Cloud Data Integration while AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews. AWS AppSync is rated 9.0, while AWS Glue is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AWS AppSync writes "Innovative, works well with GraphQL, and can connect to any type of data source". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Glue writes "Provides serverless mechanism, easy data transformation and automated infrastructure management". AWS AppSync is most compared with Oracle Integration Cloud Service, Workato and Perspectium DataSync, whereas AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, SSIS and Talend Open Studio.
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