We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and JumpMind SymmetricDS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), MuleSoft, Matillion and others in Cloud Data Integration."I like its integration and ability to handle all data-related tasks."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is scalability."
"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."
"AWS Glue is a good solution for developers, they have the ability to write code in different languages and other software."
"The solution is serverless so it allows us to transform data while optimizing the cost and performance of Spark jobs."
"The solution's technical support is good. Whenever we raise a use case where we face an issue in our company, we get a response from the solution's technical team."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"It is fully featured. It has allowed me to do everything I wanted to do."
"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."
"AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow."
"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"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 price of the solution could improve."
"AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud."
"Currently, it supports only two languages in the background: Python and Scala. From our customization point of view, it would be helpful if it can also support Java in the background."
"I haven't looked into Glue in terms of seeking out flaws. I've not come across missing features."
"The user interface could improve. We are looking at some cloud-based databases, and I don't think they support that."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while JumpMind SymmetricDS is ranked 13th in Data Replication. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while JumpMind SymmetricDS is rated 9.0. 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 JumpMind SymmetricDS writes "Excellent change data capture utility for distributed multi site environment". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas JumpMind SymmetricDS is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS Database Migration Service, Confluent, SSIS and Azure Data Factory.
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