We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Fivetran 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."We have found it beneficial when moving data from one source to another."
"Glue is a NoSQL-based data ETL tool that has some advantages over IIS and ISAs."
"The solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"What I like best about AWS Glue is its real-time data backup feature. Last week, there was a production push, and what used to take almost ten days to send out around fifty-six thousand emails now takes only two hours."
"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 is AWS-integrated. There is end-to-end integration with the other AWS services. It is also user-friendly."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is scalability."
"You can manage all of your connectors individually, which gives you a very good ability to trace which one of your ETL processes is running and when."
"The most valuable feature of Fivetran is that it only synchronizes what needs to be synchronized."
"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The solution is stable. We've never faced any stability issues."
"The general data ingestion is valuable. It's used for a lot of data. It provides about 90% of the data we use in our data warehouse without needing data engineering."
"There's the general feature of the platform where it just makes it very easy to integrate different things, but I would say a specific difference is their integration of DBT,."
"The product has some seamless connectors, which are readily available."
"Fivetran can perform data migration incredibly fast, depending on the source and target."
"I would like to see stable libraries at the moment they are not there."
"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."
"The mapping area and the use of the data catalog from Glue could be better."
"The monitoring is not that good."
"Glue could perform better. It sometimes takes too long to test a Glue job. Google Cloud Platform offers more Python scripts than AWS."
"I haven't looked into Glue in terms of seeking out flaws. I've not come across missing features."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"Only people who can code, either in Java or Python, can use the product freely. Those who don't know Java or Python might find using AWS Glue difficult."
"There was a random change to our contract in a unilateral manner after the first year. The overall cost of using Fivetran was then unclear and this is the reason I would not recommend this solution."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"I would like Fivetran to implement additional resource monitoring and restriction policies."
"Fivetran should add more connectors because its competitors, like Airbyte, have more connectors."
"We experience cost issues because Fivetran is charged on a usage basis. When you reach a certain level, the tool should focus on reducing the costs. The solution is expensive when you are moving gigabytes and petabytes of data. It should also focus more on REST APIs and webhooks."
"The connections with SAP must be improved."
"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."
"HVR Software's technical support could be improved. Whenever we log a case, the response that we get from the support is a bit delayed."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Fivetran is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Integration with 19 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Fivetran 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 Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our AWS Glue vs. Fivetran report.
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