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.
"AWS Glue's best features are scalability and cloud-based features."
"AWS Glue is a stable and easy-to-use solution."
"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 that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature."
"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."
"The solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"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 Mapping Designer allows for declarative ETL development (visual scripting) that leverages a wide array of different transformations."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Cloud Data Integration is Pushback. You are able to push the data to the solution itself, and it can handle the queries. It helps us a lot. With other tools, the burden is kept on the server."
"Data integration is the most valuable feature. The ability to connect to any of the sources and enterprise applications makes our lives easier."
"The solution provides increased efficiency while still being user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The solution is straightforward."
"It is quite easy to use and flexible."
"Their new licensing is very flexible. With Informatica Cloud, you have plenty of items under the same umbrella, such as services, offerings, data quality, and data masking. You have also got master data management and API management. What I really like about them is that you don't need to go to Informatica and say that you need a data integration module. You would say that you need iPaaS or Informatica Cloud. They'll then try to understand your needs and give you IPUs, which are the processing units. If I purchased a hundred IPUs from Informatica as a customer, I can use 70 IPUs for data integration. I would also need data quality, so I can use 10 IPUs for data quality. I can use the remaining 20 IPUs for API management. Down the line, if I see that my initial data integration needs for the development phase are met, then out of the 70 IPUs assigned for data integration, I can use 30 IPUs for data masking. I can shuffle these numbers in any way within the Informatica Cloud umbrella for the tenure for which I have subscribed to these IPUs. I can use all services the way I want. This flexibility is what I really love about Informatica. It also has got good connectors."
"Glue could perform better. It sometimes takes too long to test a Glue job. Google Cloud Platform offers more Python scripts than AWS."
"Cost-wise, AWS Glue is expensive, so that's an area for improvement. The process for setting up the solution was also complex, which is another area for improvement."
"The solution's visual ETL tool is of no use for actual implementation."
"The mapping area and the use of the data catalog from Glue could be better."
"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."
"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."
"There should be more connectors for different databases."
"The solution could be cheaper. The price of the solution is an area that needs improvement."
"Its pricing model can be improved. The response time from technical support can also be improved."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration can improve by being more user-friendly. When you're working with the solution a lot of technical knowledge is required. It's not a solution that anyone can use properly, you need knowledge of what's happening at the back end, such as SQL. When you get stuck, you need to look into your logic. For other tools, such as Dell Boomi, anyone can use them."
"Performance also needs to be significantly improved, especially when connecting to SFDC for read and write operations."
"It could be improved by including a buffer that saves data when there is a connectivity issue."
"I would like to see support for more data sources."
"The regions in which the data resides are still limited. This could be an issue in terms of the data residency laws of some of the countries. They should get more regions."
"The current features are a bit complicated, and we need to write big scripts and test."
"Error reporting and debugging need improvement."
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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, Mule Anypoint Platform and SAP Data Services. See our AWS Glue vs. Informatica Cloud Data Integration report.
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