We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Informatica PowerExchange 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."AWS Glue is quite better than other tools, but you have to learn it properly before you start using it."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"I like its integration and ability to handle all data-related tasks."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is scalability."
"The facility to integrate with S3 and the possibility to use Jupyter Notebook inside the pipeline are the most valuable features."
"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."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"It is a scalable and versatile solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was not complex. The tool is easy to install onto any of the servers, and you can integrate it."
"The scalability is excellent."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"There is a learning curve to this tool."
"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"On occasion, the solution's dashboard reports that a project failed due to runtime but it actually succeeded."
"The solution's visual ETL tool is of no use for actual implementation."
"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."
"It fails to handle massive databases acquired from various sources."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized."
"V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"The one place where it could be improved is definitely pricing. That's a very big problem. It depends product to product, but pricing is an issue."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Informatica PowerExchange 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 PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate. See our AWS Glue vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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