We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and WhereScape RED 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."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."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"Our entire use case was very easily handled or solved using this solution."
"I like its integration and ability to handle all data-related tasks."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"Its user interface is quite good. You just need to choose some options to create a job in AWS Glue. The code-generation feature is also useful. If you don't want to customize it and simply want to read a file and store the data in the database, it can generate the code for you."
"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."
"We no longer had to worry much about infrastructure management because AWS Glue is serverless, and Amazon takes care of the underlying infrastructure."
"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"This is a fantastically robust DW tool that will make you at least 10 times faster in producing a DW."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."
"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."
"It fails to handle massive databases acquired from various sources."
"AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"The start-up time is really high right now. For instance, when you start up a new job, you have to wait for five or eight minutes before it starts. If the start-up time is reduced to one or two minutes, it will be great. It will be better to have a direct linkage to Redshift in AWS. If we can use data catalogs from Redshift, it will be so easy to create some data catalogs. Currently, we can only use data catalogs from S3."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The monitoring is not that good."
"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."
"Customization could be better."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."
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AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while WhereScape RED 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 WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, SSIS and Talend Open Studio, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Matillion ETL and Qlik Replicate. See our AWS Glue vs. WhereScape RED report.
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