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AWS Glue vs Fivetran comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Glue
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Fivetran
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (13th), Data Replication (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of AWS Glue is 24.8%, up from 24.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fivetran is 5.6%, up from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Ajaykumar Myana - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 31, 2023
Provides serverless mechanism, easy data transformation and automated infrastructure management
I had the source data, which was unstructured and non-fixable, and my responsibility was to convert it into structured data. For this task, I used PySpark as the programming language. With Python, I implemented the creation of a data frame using Glue jobs. Since Glue jobs are a serverless…
Erik Jones - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 14, 2022
Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI
Fivetran has room for improvement in data pipeline observability. The Fivetran logs are fairly basic, compared to, for example, the insight Fivetran gives into helping users understanding the performance of data pipelines. So I think their observability into the pipeline itself could be improved. In addition, Fivetran is in the very early stages of allowing other companies to access its metadata API, but that's something that could use improvement, and I know that they're working on right now. We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool. It would be nice if Fivetran offered both their regular offering plus the reverse ETL option as well.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"AWS Glue is quite better than other tools, but you have to learn it properly before you start using it."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"I like that it's flexible, powerful, and allows you to write your own queries and scripts to get the needed transformations."
"It's very good to manage."
"What I like best about AWS Glue is its real-time data backup feature. Last week, there was a production push, and what used to take almost ten days to send out around fifty-six thousand emails now takes only two hours."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"The solution integrates well with other AWS products or services."
"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."
"Fivetran can perform data migration incredibly fast, depending on the source and target."
"There's the general feature of the platform where it just makes it very easy to integrate different things, but I would say a specific difference is their integration of DBT,."
"Making the decision to implement Fivetran was supported by the fact that they have better connectors than other competitors."
"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"For us, Fivetran has been able to scale both in terms of the data we bring into our warehouse and the amount of data that we use as well."
"The most valuable feature of Fivetran is that it only synchronizes what needs to be synchronized."
"SysTrack load is the best feature."
"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's very easy and quick to set up. It also has a central hub as opposed to GoldenGate which is one direct interface. For GoldenGate I would have needed three interfaces whereas with HVR I have a central interface that manages everything."
 

Cons

"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"The monitoring is not that good."
"The product is expensive for data streaming. This area needs improvement."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"I would like to see a more robust interface on the no-code side. This would be nice to be able to split cells."
"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."
"The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data."
"The product has only a few built-in transformations."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"The customization could improve because Fivetran gives more thought to people who don't want to manage analytics workflows rather than engineers who want to be able to customize pipelines more thoroughly."
"An in-line data quality checking capability is missing"
"HVR Software's technical support could be improved. Whenever we log a case, the response that we get from the support is a bit delayed."
"The solution is very expensive. I would like to have a better integration of the solution with Azure."
"Some of the pain points we're looking at are trying to integrate some of the items in the Microsoft stack, so SharePoint and Excel, and then some of the newer Azure services."
"This solution needs to improve its real-time data and transformation availability."
"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price is good. We pay as we go or based on the usage, which is a good thing for us because it is simple to forecast for the tool. It is good in terms of the financial planning of the company, and it is a good way to estimate the cost. It is also simple for our clients. In my opinion, it is one of the best tools in the market for ETL processes because of the fact that you pay as you use, which separates it from other big tools such as PowerCenter, Pentaho Data Integration, and Talend."
"I would rate the solution a six or seven on a scale of one to ten, with ten being very expensive. Specifically, I rate its pricing a six out of ten."
"AWS Glue is quite costly, especially for small organizations."
"It is an expensive product. I rate its pricing a nine out of ten."
"AWS Glue is a high-priced solution that bills the client $150,000 to $250,000 annually."
"I rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten."
"The solution's pricing is based on DPUs so it is a good idea to optimize use or it can get expensive."
"Technical support is a paid service, and which subscription you have is dependent on that. You must pay one of them, and it ranges from $15,000 to $25,000 per year."
"The solution is affordable."
"I don't have the exact information, but I know it is high, and it is on a yearly basis. There is no additional cost for what we're doing. We're always open to doing things cheaper, so we might potentially implement a different solution."
"The product is reasonably expensive"
"Fivetran is very expensive, and its database-driven pricing model is outdated."
"I rate the pricing a six out of ten."
"I can't give exact amounts because that's based on usage, but it's more expensive than some of its competitors."
"The licensing costs are extremely high for the usage of somebody who has one GB or two GB of usage per day for real-time traffic. There are many other players in the market which are similarly priced or competitively priced. On average per month, it used to come around 12,000-15,000 USD, which is very high."
"I've heard that the license for HVR is a bit costly compared to its competitors, but since it's reliable and efficient, I think the customer shouldn't be bothered about the cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
Educational Organization
27%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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