We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog 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."It is AWS-integrated. There is end-to-end integration with the other AWS services. It is also user-friendly."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"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."
"The solution integrates well with other AWS products or services."
"AWS Glue is a good solution for developers, they have the ability to write code in different languages and other software."
"I like that it's flexible, powerful, and allows you to write your own queries and scripts to get the needed transformations."
"The product has a valuable feature for data catalog."
"We have found it beneficial when moving data from one source to another."
"It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"We can scan anything."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The solution scales well."
"The product seems stable enough."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"There is a learning curve to this tool."
"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."
"One area that could be improved is the ETL view. The drag-and-drop interface is not as user-friendly as some other ETL tools."
"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"Glue could perform better. It sometimes takes too long to test a Glue job. Google Cloud Platform offers more Python scripts than AWS."
"The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The scalability is tough."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"This solution is hard to set up and its interface is not user-friendly. It's also not as stable, and the technical support takes a lot of time to solve simple problems."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
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AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6. 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 Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Denodo, whereas Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, Informatica PowerCenter, Denodo and Palantir Foundry. See our AWS Glue vs. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog report.
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