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 solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"One of the best features of the solution is its ability to easily integrate with other AWS services."
"We have found it beneficial when moving data from one source to another."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature."
"It is AWS-integrated. There is end-to-end integration with the other AWS services. It is also user-friendly."
"The solution is serverless so it allows us to transform data while optimizing the cost and performance of Spark jobs."
"I like the fact that AWS Glue works with Python scripts."
"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."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable features are the ETL tools."
"I didn't have many problems installing it. It seemed very straightforward to me."
"Talend Open Studio is easy to create jobs. We use the basic functionality and it is very good."
"This product is very easy to use."
"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 best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups."
"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 have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"There is a learning curve to this tool."
"The product has only a few built-in transformations."
"The interface for AWS Glue could improve, they do not put a lot of details. You can write the code, in PySpark or in Scala, which is a big advantage, it is only easy to use for a developer. It will be difficult for new users to enter the cloud environment."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."
"The solution’s stability could 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."
"The technical support and documentation need a lot of work to come up to standard."
"The stability of the solution could improve when running jobs. There can be errors when running projects but in the end, it works well and the errors do not impact the result."
"There used to be many Youtube channels that offered Talend training, but now there don't seem to be any. The solution should offer more online training resources."
"The pricing could be lower. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The solution needs more integrations."
"It gets the job done but it's a bit slow."
"The profiling perspective needs improvement. Instead of using it in the studio, we are using a different tool which is also provided by Talend. It's redundant."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 48 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 "Intuitive interface and documentation make it simple to build jobs and APIs and logging helps pinpoint and resolve issues quickly". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, SSIS and Oracle Integration Cloud Service, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our AWS Glue vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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