We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Mule Anypoint Platform 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."What I like best about AWS Glue is its real-time data backup feature. Last week, there was a production push, and what used to take almost ten days to send out around fifty-six thousand emails now takes only two hours."
"I like the fact that AWS Glue works with Python scripts."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"AWS Glue is a good solution for developers, they have the ability to write code in different languages and other software."
"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."
"One of the best features of the solution is its ability to easily integrate with other AWS services."
"The facility to integrate with S3 and the possibility to use Jupyter Notebook inside the pipeline are the most valuable features."
"MuleSoft offers with the Anypoint Platform a unified platform for API management and an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) as well as an on-premise Enterprise Service Bus pattern."
"MuleSoft Anypoint Platform's most valuable features are its observability and stability."
"Mule works very well with Salesforce and CRMs."
"When we talk about the APIs, there are multiple policies one can apply on APIs, like rate limiting policies, OWASP policies, and OWASP security policies, that can be easily configured in Mule Anypoint Platform."
"The API toolkit is the solution's most valuable aspect at this time, for our organization."
"Whenever we need some support in our local language, we get it easily. They also have an office in Germany and if a person is unable to contact them by phone, they can go to the office in person."
"The most valuable feature is the variety of characters Anypoint Platform has. It is very scalable and customizable."
"We are very satisfied with the DevOps support."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"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 stable libraries at the moment they are not there."
"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."
"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 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."
"The product is expensive for data streaming. This area needs improvement."
"Glue could perform better. It sometimes takes too long to test a Glue job. Google Cloud Platform offers more Python scripts than AWS."
"The platform's data integration tools need improvement on the processing side."
"The inclusion of GenAI in the tool can be good since it is an area that is currently unavailable in the solution."
"The terms of use and how it's priced has become very difficult to manage, which is forcing us to look for alternatives already - and we haven't even been using it for that long just yet."
"The stability could be better."
"The initial setup should be made easy and the documentation should have some guidance."
"This becomes an expensive solution over time."
"Although the solution's proxy design and process are good, it faces connecting issues because it lacks data integration."
"It should give better control over account management."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 41 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2. 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 Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, SSIS and Talend Open Studio, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, SAP Process Orchestration, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and SAP Cloud Platform. See our AWS Glue vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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