We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Fivetran 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."I like the fact that AWS Glue works with Python scripts."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature."
"The solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"I like that it's flexible, powerful, and allows you to write your own queries and scripts to get the needed transformations."
"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."
"AWS Glue's best features are scalability and cloud-based features."
"It is AWS-integrated. There is end-to-end integration with the other AWS services. It is also user-friendly."
"The key role for Glue is that it hosts our metadata before rolling out our actual data. This is the major advantage of using this solution and our clients client have been very satisfied with it."
"The general data ingestion is valuable. It's used for a lot of data. It provides about 90% of the data we use in our data warehouse without needing data engineering."
"Fivetran is remarkably easy to use; I haven't encountered any other data integration tool that is as user-friendly."
"For us, Fivetran has been able to scale both in terms of the data we bring into our warehouse and the amount of data that we use as well."
"The compare feature is the most valuable piece of it."
"The product has some seamless connectors, which are readily available."
"Its arrays are powerful enough to handle migrations even when the replication is happening in the background, without causing any trouble with the ongoing traffic."
"Fivetran's most valuable feature is replication."
"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The product has only a few built-in transformations."
"AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow."
"The solution could be cheaper. The price of the solution is an area that needs improvement."
"The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data."
"I haven't looked into Glue in terms of seeking out flaws. I've not come across missing features."
"Overall, I consider the technical support to be fine, although the response time could be faster in certain cases."
"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."
"I would like to see stable libraries at the moment they are not there."
"Some of the pain points we're looking at are trying to integrate some of the items in the Microsoft stack, so SharePoint and Excel, and then some of the newer Azure services."
"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."
"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."
"HVR Software's technical support could be improved. Whenever we log a case, the response that we get from the support is a bit delayed."
"Fivetran would be improved by adding the ability to integrate the data from third-party APIs."
"The documentation can be laid out better to make it easier to find things, and I really wish there was built-in support for changing passwords. Some features don't work as advertised for the platform/repository database, and HVR is not always the fastest at getting results."
"We experience cost issues because Fivetran is charged on a usage basis. When you reach a certain level, the tool should focus on reducing the costs. The solution is expensive when you are moving gigabytes and petabytes of data. It should also focus more on REST APIs and webhooks."
"Fivetran is very expensive for data sources with a lot of rows, such as email data. I would like to see cheaper pricing for data sources like that."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Fivetran is ranked 6th in Cloud Data Integration with 19 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Fivetran is rated 8.0. 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 Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and Informatica PowerCenter. See our AWS Glue vs. Fivetran report.
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