We performed a comparison between AWS Glue vs Talend Open Studio based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: AWS Glue has a slight edge in this comparison since it is more lightweight than Talend Open Studio.
"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 product has a valuable feature for data catalog."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"One of the best features of the solution is its ability to easily integrate with other AWS services."
"AWS Glue is quite better than other tools, but you have to learn it properly before you start using it."
"AWS Glue is a stable and easy-to-use solution."
"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."
"AWS Glue's best features are scalability and cloud-based features."
"A very user friendly solution."
"I can connect with different databases such as Oracle Database or SQL Server. It allows you to extract the data from one database to another. I can structure the data by filtering and mapping the fields. It is very user-friendly. You need to know the basics of SQL development or SQL queries, and you can use this tool."
"The initial setup of the product was very easy."
"The rapidity of integration with data may be one of the valuable features."
"The standout feature for me is the user-friendly nature of the components."
"The best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups."
"Talend Open Studio is easy to create jobs. We use the basic functionality and it is very good."
"This product is very easy to use."
"There is a learning curve to this tool."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud."
"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."
"While working on AWS Glue, I could not find any training material for it."
"On occasion, the solution's dashboard reports that a project failed due to runtime but it actually succeeded."
"Currently, it supports only two languages in the background: Python and Scala. From our customization point of view, it would be helpful if it can also support Java in the background."
"The user interface could be made simpler."
"It gets the job done but it's a bit slow."
"In terms of what can be improved, the scheduling is not there in the sister version, while it is there in the cloud one, which is a paid version. If all kinds of scheduling could be available on the Open Studio that we generally use and practice on, that would be great. The scheduling of the data migration is currently not available in the sister version of Talend Open Studio that we are working on. It is available in the advanced version of the Talend. This is the one thing that can be improvised."
"The pricing could be lower. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The security features could be improved."
"The physical appearance of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We need more components to be more efficient. We use a lot of components, such as Salesforce, and it's not easy to use. There's are minor bugs and it's not easy to use some of the features."
"Technical support and customer service need to be improved."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 47 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Talend Open Studio 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 Talend Open Studio writes "An open-source ETL tool, when deployed on-premises, requiring an easy installation phase". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Oracle Integration Cloud Service, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform and Informatica PowerCenter. See our AWS Glue vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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