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AWS Glue vs IBM App Connect comparison

 

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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
IBM App Connect
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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 IBM App Connect is 3.6%, up from 2.9% 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…
Mehdi El Filahi - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 17, 2024
Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times
There is room for improvement in the logging messages. Sometimes, if you put someone new into App Connect, they can abandon it the same day. The logging is really painful. However, IBM has made efforts to integrate with Elasticsearch for logging, so that's an improvement. Overall, the logging can be difficult at times. One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient. Back in 2013, I worked with Sonic ESB, and even then, it had CI/CD with Maven. With App Connect, you need to build everything yourself when using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, or CircleCI. IBM really needs to provide official support for this.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is AWS-integrated. There is end-to-end integration with the other AWS services. It is also user-friendly."
"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."
"I like that it's flexible, powerful, and allows you to write your own queries and scripts to get the needed transformations."
"The most valuable features currently are glue studio, jobs, and triggers."
"I also like that you can add custom libraries like JAR files and use them. So, the ability to use a fast processing engine and embed basic jobs easily are significant advantages."
"Our entire use case was very easily handled or solved using this solution."
"The key role for Glue is that it hosts our metadata before rolling out our actual data. This is the major advantage of using this solution and our clients client have been very satisfied with it."
"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"Technical support is good."
"It has an efficient design flow."
"I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's likely an adapter for that."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"The solution is very fast-paced when it comes to making things right. We can quickly download what we need if we need any app migrations for our software business. We can download it plenty of times when we need to use it. It gives us very high speed for delivering any development."
 

Cons

"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."
"AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow."
"The solution could be cheaper. The price of the solution is an area that needs improvement."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"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."
"The product has only a few built-in transformations."
"AWS Glue's error handling is difficult."
"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."
"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"Finding developers for the product is difficult since it is a niche solution. I know the OpenShift environment is running well for the microservice environment. We had some issues with the other environment we tried to implement. It can be easily implemented internally, but we have some problems in practice."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AWS Glue follows a pay-as-you-go model, wherein the cost of the data you use will be counted as a monthly bill."
"AWS Glue is quite costly, especially for small organizations."
"AWS Glue uses a pay-as-you-go approach which is helpful. The price of the overall solution is low and is a great advantage."
"The overall cost of AWS Glue could be better. It cost approximately $1,000 a month. There is paid support available from AWS Glue."
"The pricing is a bit higher than other solutions like Athena and EC2. If the pricing becomes more scaled or flexible, it will be good because you have to pay 44 cents just for one DPU for an hour. If you increase DPUs to 5 or 10, the pricing gets multiplied. There are also some time limits like 0 to 10 minutes or 10 to 20 minutes. If the pricing is according to the minutes, it would be better because you have to limit your job to 10 minutes or 20 minutes."
"I rate pricing an eight out of ten."
"AWS Glue is a paid service that doesn't come under the free trial of AWS."
"I rate the product's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price."
"The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal."
"The price could be better."
"The cost depends upon the consumer."
"It is very expensive if we want to scale."
"App Connect is not cheap."
"Initially, App Connect was quite expensive because the cost was based on the number of processors we used. However, it's now based on containers, which means we can be more specific about our consumption and get a better price."
"IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products."
"The licensing cost for IBM App Connect is very high."
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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
57%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
3%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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What do you like most about IBM App Connect?
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM App Connect?
IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products.
What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?
Our company has a big project for delivery and e-commerce sites. We use IBM App Connect to deliver information to our end users after they buy our products. We get information from many places, suc...
 

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Sample Customers

bp, Cerner, Expedia, Finra, HESS, intuit, Kellog's, Philips, TIME, workday
United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.
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