We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Informatica Cloud Data Integration based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: For users vested in the AWS ecosystem, AWS is hands down the best choice. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is flexible and allows users to decide how to distribute their IPUs in their own networks. Data residency laws make it challenging to choose this solution, as their regions are currently very limited.
"We have found it beneficial when moving data from one source to another."
"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."
"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."
"Transformations are valuable because you can modify or override complex data logic from an open source or Spark to solve issues."
"The product has a valuable feature for data catalog."
"AWS Glue's most valuable features are the data catalog, including crawlers and tables, and Glue Studio, which means you don't have to use custom code."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is scalability."
"I also like that you can add custom libraries like JAR files and use them. So, the ability to use a fast processing engine and embed basic jobs easily are significant advantages."
"The mass ingestion functionality and the elasticity of the solution are great."
"It has all the advantages of the Cloud in that you can use it without worrying about infrastructure, upkeep, or upgrades."
"The most valuable features of the solution are pushdown, optimization, and partitioning, which can be used for frequent data loading, especially when we have a huge data volume in our company."
"The solution's initial setup is quite straightforward."
"The program is stable and scalable."
"It has become an easy way to exchange information through any cloud application."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the building of mockups and tasks."
"The monitoring is not that good."
"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."
"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."
"The solution's visual ETL tool is of no use for actual implementation."
"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"Glue could perform better. It sometimes takes too long to test a Glue job. Google Cloud Platform offers more Python scripts than AWS."
"On occasion, the solution's dashboard reports that a project failed due to runtime but it actually succeeded."
"If there's a cluster-related configuration, we have to make worker notes, which is quite a headache when processing a large amount of data."
"It needs to be a little more intuitive but it’s really not bad."
"I have received feedback from certain teams and there is a steep learning curve to use this solution."
"User/group administration could use improvement."
"The main issue preventing Brazilian companies from migrating to Informatica Cloud Data Integration from on-prem is the price."
"I would also like to have profiling functionalities and quality transformations in the cloud."
"We would like to have accessibility to the repository."
"Certain applications are not being synced with the ION."
"The integration process is not easy."
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AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8. 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 Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Talend Open Studio and Oracle Integration Cloud Service, whereas Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, Fivetran, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our AWS Glue vs. Informatica Cloud Data Integration report.
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