We performed a comparison between AWS Glue vs Talend Open Studio based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: AWS Glue has a slight edge in this comparison since it is more lightweight than Talend Open Studio.
"The most valuable feature for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"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 most valuable feature of AWS Glue is its ease of use and good documentation. Additionally, we can do all the transformations that we need."
"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 solution is stable and reliable."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature."
"I like its integration and ability to handle all data-related tasks."
"The most interesting aspect of the solution for us is that Talend Open Studio has a good balance between the features and the cost of the data management platform."
"Talend Open Studio is easy to create jobs. We use the basic functionality and it is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Talend Open Studio is the tMap component. There is a lot of functionality in one component."
"You can use Talend as a stand-alone application without customization to collect data and generate reports over dashboards. It's got great functionality."
"The data integration aspect of the solution is excellent."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups."
"The most valuable features are definitely data integration, data preparation, and data stewardship."
"On occasion, the solution's dashboard reports that a project failed due to runtime but it actually succeeded."
"There should be more connectors for different databases."
"There is a learning curve to this tool."
"I would like to see stable libraries at the moment they are not there."
"I would like to see a more robust interface on the no-code side. This would be nice to be able to split cells."
"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."
"I haven't looked into Glue in terms of seeking out flaws. I've not come across missing features."
"It fails to handle massive databases acquired from various sources."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Multiple products are there within the product suite. That can be actually trimmed down."
"The solution needs more integrations."
"Talend Open Studio has a lot of capabilities, but there is some restriction. For example, if we want to connect to an SAP system, Open Studio cannot do it. We need to go with an enterprise version. Additionally, the monitoring features could improve."
"The documentation is lacking within the product. They need to get better at all aspects of describing how it works and how to use it."
"The solution should offer better integration with other products."
"Technical support and customer service need to be improved."
"In terms of features, it has all the features that I need. However, it consumes a lot of resources. It is using a lot of RAM, and they need to fix the issue related to resource consumption. It currently requires more than 24 gigabytes of RAM, which is a big amount of RAM."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 47 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Talend Open Studio 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 Talend Open Studio writes "An open-source ETL tool, when deployed on-premises, requiring an easy installation phase". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Confluent, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform and Azure Data Factory. See our AWS Glue vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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