We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Palantir Foundry 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."AWS Glue's best features are scalability and cloud-based features."
"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 its ease of use and good documentation. Additionally, we can do all the transformations that we need."
"The solution is serverless so it allows us to transform data while optimizing the cost and performance of Spark jobs."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"Transformations are valuable because you can modify or override complex data logic from an open source or Spark to solve issues."
"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."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"The solution provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."
"Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration."
"The security is also excellent. It's highly granular, so the admins have a high degree of control, and there are many levels of security. That worked well. You won't have an EDC unless you put everything onto the platform because it is its own isolated thing."
"The interface is really user-friendly."
"Live video sessions enhance the available documentation and allow you to ask questions directly."
"The ease of use is my favorite feature. We're able to build different models and projects or combine different projects to build one use case."
"Encapsulates all the components without the requirement to integrate or check compatibility."
"It's scalable."
"There should be more connectors for different databases."
"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."
"The product has only a few built-in transformations."
"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 product is expensive for data streaming. This area needs improvement."
"It fails to handle massive databases acquired from various sources."
"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."
"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."
"The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages. Informatica EDC can easily capture and report it because it talks to the metadata. This is generated across those various staging points."
"It requires a lot of manual work and is very time-consuming to get to a functional point."
"Some error messages can be very cryptic."
"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."
"They do not have a data center in Europe, and we have lots of personally identifiable information in our dataset that needs to be hosted by a third-party data center like Amazon or Microsoft Azure."
"Difficult to receive data from external sources."
"Compared to other hyperscalers, Palantir Foundry is complex and not so user-intuitive."
"The solution could use more online documentation for new users."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Palantir Foundry is ranked 12th in Cloud Data Integration with 13 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Palantir Foundry is rated 7.6. 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 Palantir Foundry writes "The data visualization is fantastic and the security is excellent". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Denodo, whereas Palantir Foundry is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Palantir Gotham, SAP Data Services, Alteryx Designer and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our AWS Glue vs. Palantir Foundry report.
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