We performed a comparison between Ab Initio Co>Operating System and AWS Glue 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."Ab Initio reaches the highest performance and is very flexible in processing huge amounts of data."
"Co>Operating System's most valuable feature is its ability to process bulk data effectively."
"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."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"The solution is highly user-friendly, and its features are easy to use. The new addition of AWS Glue Data Catalog is also very beneficial, making the tool even more helpful for its users."
"Glue is a NoSQL-based data ETL tool that has some advantages over IIS and ISAs."
"We have found it beneficial when moving data from one source to another."
"We no longer had to worry much about infrastructure management because AWS Glue is serverless, and Amazon takes care of the underlying infrastructure."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"The solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"Co>Operating System would be improved with more integrations for less well-known technologies."
"An awesome improvement would be big data solutions, for example, implementing some kind of business intelligence or neural networks for artificial intelligence."
"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."
"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 has only a few built-in transformations."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"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."
"There should be more connectors for different databases."
"AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud."
"There is a learning curve to this tool."
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Ab Initio Co>Operating System is ranked 25th in Data Integration with 2 reviews while AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews. Ab Initio Co>Operating System is rated 9.6, while AWS Glue is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Ab Initio Co>Operating System writes "High performance and flexible solution for companies with large amounts of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Glue writes "Provides serverless mechanism, easy data transformation and automated infrastructure management". Ab Initio Co>Operating System is most compared with SSIS, Collibra Catalog, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Talend Data Management Platform and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio. See our AWS Glue vs. Ab Initio Co>Operating System report.
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