AWS Glue vs Talend Open Studio comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Talend are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Additionally, 89% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Talend users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

Talend Open Studio and AWS Glue both compete in the data integration category. AWS Glue seems to have the upper hand due to its strong scalability and seamless integration with AWS services, despite Talend's competitive pricing and user-friendly interface.

Features: Talend Open Studio is known for its scalability, user-friendly interface, and extensive library of over 900 connectors. It offers flexibility in customizing ETL processes with minimal programming knowledge, making it suitable for diverse data management needs. AWS Glue is appreciated for its serverless architecture, real-time data processing, and seamless integration with AWS services, which enhances automation and minimizes infrastructure management.

Room for Improvement: Talend Open Studio users suggest improvements in documentation, technical support, and version control features, as well as enhanced scheduling capabilities. AWS Glue users point out the need for better resource management, pricing structures, and expanded support for diverse data sources, alongside improved UI consistency during large-scale data processing tasks.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Talend Open Studio can be deployed on-premises or in private and hybrid cloud environments, appealing to businesses with specific infrastructure requirements, though it lacks dedicated support for open-source versions. AWS Glue, being cloud-native, primarily supports public or hybrid cloud deployments, with a pay-as-you-go model, but some users report delays in customer service responses.

Pricing and ROI: Talend Open Studio's open-source version is cost-effective for basic ETL needs, while its enterprise version incurs additional costs for advanced features. Users report good ROI through cost savings. AWS Glue may involve higher costs but offers robust performance and integration with AWS, delivering significant ROI through optimized data processing in AWS environments.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Glue

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

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Cloud Data Integration (1st)

Talend Open Studio

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

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Data Integration (5th)

Q&A Highlights

Netanya Carmi

Content Manager at PeerSpot

Nov 24, 2021

How does Talend Open Studio compare with AWS Glue?

We reviewed AWS Glue before choosing Talend Open Studio. AWS Glue is the managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) from Amazon Web Services. AWS Glue enables AWS users to create and manage jobs in the ETL console. This solution has a lot of useful features. For example, you can point AWS Glue to data in AWS, and Glue stores the associated metadata in the data catalog. As a result, the data becomes searchable and available in the ETL. The UI is very friendly and easy to use. We also like how fast it is for ETL processes. If your company handles large quantities of sensitive data, AWS Glue provides a scheduler, and the data deployment is very straightforward. Still, AWS Glue leaves some room for improvement. The setup can be pretty tricky if you are not already an AWS user. Also, the sample code is not available for many use cases. Talend Open Studio is a data integration solution designed for ETL, Big Data, and data integration. It is also easy to use. The feature we like the most is that It allows us to integrate the different data sources. It has the added advantage of being open-source. It provides a lot of features out of the box, which is nice to have. The pre-built widgets help you streamline integrations with databases and web services. We use it for small loads, but for large amounts of data it stalls sometimes. Conclusions: If you are already an AWS user, AWS Glue is probably the best ETL tool for you. If that's not the case, deployment can be quite difficult. For small loads, Talend is a better option.

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Muthuvel Sivaraman

AVP at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Handles a huge volume of data and is serverless, but it can be considered costly by some users

We use Amazon's services to provide technical support for the product. If you want to have support, Oracle and others offer a single support, and other tools have a direct support window. For Amazon, we need to pay 10 percent of my billing amount for the tool to get support services. Whether to raise a support ticket or not is an issue since ten percent is a huge amount. My company ends up using all the options without help from support. It is very difficult for any common man to understand why there is a need to pay ten percent for support. If I find an issue in the product, and I need to get support from AWS to fix it, then I need to pay ten percent of the tool's bill amount to Amazon. AWS is a very tricky tool because everything is evolving nowadays. AWS engineers are getting hired from other places, and even after that, if I am not getting any technical support, then things will be very nasty. There are some good engineers who help users outside the normal support cycle, but it doesn't meet their needs. I rate the technical support a four out of ten.

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Jason Hale

Solution Architect at Waikato Regional Council

Intuitive interface and documentation make it simple to build jobs and APIs and logging helps pinpoint and resolve issues quickly

Talend is doing a lot of work at the moment, and it's not there yet, but the whole platform could be managed in a SaaS-type environment. You still need to have the Studio running on a virtual desktop or a PC. They will get to be able to do the whole thing inside your browser, so you don't need to install anything locally. It's down the track, and it's the nirvana that we were looking for in Boomi. But the biggest challenge they have is that the platform is so focused on the Studio for all of its development. They'll probably get there, but they have such a mature Studio client that it's a huge amount of work to get all of that functionality into a browser or SaaS platform. That's pretty much the biggest flaw with the Talend environment—being reliant on the Studio, which needed to be on a local machine. The only other thing is that you have to integrate into an API gateway. We're in Azure, so we use Microsoft Azure Gateway. It doesn't come with its own gateway, which is another sort of big plus side that we saw in Boomi. Talend isn't quite there yet with the API gateway. Other than that, it's bloody hard to find something because it just seems to be all good.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."

"The AWS Glue Data Catalog provides metadata management and schema discovery. AWS Glue simplifies data transformation with automatic schema detection, incremental data updates, and integration with other AWS services."

"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."

"The two features I find most valuable in AWS Glue are its user interface and ease of use."

"AWS Glue's best features are scalability and cloud-based features."

"The most valuable features currently are glue studio, jobs, and triggers."

"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is scalability."

"The solution is serverless so it allows us to transform data while optimizing the cost and performance of Spark jobs."

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"Talend Studio has the ability to use it to ensure data quality."

"We have contacted their technical support. They are great. They offer very professional help. If I need some technical answer, they are very professional. They are quick, professional, and very accurate."

"The product is easy to install and configure. It is one of the best tools for data integration."

"There are many architectures: hybrid, cloud, and on-prem."

"The most valuable features of Talend Open Studio are customization and integration."

"The most valuable feature for me when it comes to this solution is that it's easy to use."

"This product is very easy to use."

"The most valuable features are definitely data integration, data preparation, and data stewardship."

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Cons

"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."

"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."

"The solution’s stability could be improved."

"It is very difficult to learn the tool and remember the syntaxes comparatively."

"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."

"I am quite technical, yet when it comes to data pipelines, I prefer using GUIs over code-based calls. It might be easier with a different skill set."

"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."

"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."

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"Inter-version compatibility is a problem, and migration projects between versions are required."

"The physical appearance of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The solution should integrate with a version control system in the subscription versions to make it easy to work with and manage the version control."

"As for improvement or additional features, I would like to know how to use Java in Talend and also how to use Talend in the cloud or in big data. I would prefer to have storage directly on Talend."

"The security features could be improved."

"The only other thing is that you have to integrate into an API gateway. We're in Azure, so we use Microsoft Azure Gateway. It doesn't come with its own gateway, which is another sort of big plus side that we saw in Boomi. Talend isn't quite there yet with the API gateway."

"We need more components to be more efficient. We use a lot of components, such as Salesforce, and it's not easy to use. There's are minor bugs and it's not easy to use some of the features."

"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the tool an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is expensive."

"If you are using the solution for an enterprise business, it will be expensive."

"The current cost is around forty to fifty thousand a month."

"The solution's pricing is based on DPUs so it is a good idea to optimize use or it can get expensive."

"It is an expensive product. I rate its pricing a nine out of ten."

"The overall cost of AWS Glue could be better. It cost approximately $1,000 a month. There is paid support available from AWS Glue."

"I rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten."

"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."

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"There are many versions available and one is open-sourced which is free."

"The paid version of this solution has a very high price, but even with the limitations, the Community version works fine."

"I am using the open-source version of the solution, so there are no extra costs for any feature."

"The cost, particularly in Africa, is quite high."

"It is an open-source tool which means it is a free solution."

"Price could be lower. It is getting too expensive when compared to some other solutions, which is actually a little bit concerning."

"The solution will be more expensive if you have a low data volume and a large number of developers."

"Talend Open Studio is priced too high."

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Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

14%

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Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

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14%

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Government

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Questions from the Community

How do you select the right cloud ETL tool?

AWS Glue and Azure Data factory for ELT best performance cloud services.

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How does Talend Open Studio compare with AWS Glue?

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What are the most common use cases for AWS Glue?

AWS Glue's main use case is for allowing users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. The product lets you use this data for analytics, application development, or ma...

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What do you like most about Talend Open Studio?

It is easy to use and covers most of the functions needed. We can use the code without any extra effort. The open source is very good. They have the same commercials with additional connectors. The...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Talend Open Studio?

The setup cost is expensive, so there are considerations.

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What needs improvement with Talend Open Studio?

There is a need for mastery in some areas.

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Overview

AWS Glue is a serverless cloud data integration tool that facilitates the discovery, preparation, movement, and integration of data from multiple sources for machine learning (ML), analytics, and application development. The solution includes additional productivity and data ops tooling for running jobs, implementing business workflows, and authoring.

AWS Glue allows users to connect to more than 70 diverse data sources and manage data in a centralized data catalog. The solution facilitates visual creation, running, and monitoring of extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to load data into users' data lakes. This Amazon product seamlessly integrates with other native applications of the brand and allows users to search and query cataloged data using Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum.

The solution also utilizes application programming interface (API) operations to transform users' data, create runtime logs, store job logic, and create notifications for monitoring job runs. The console of AWS Glue connects all of these services into a managed application, facilitating the monitoring and operational processes. The solution also performs provisioning and management of the resources required to run users' workloads in order to minimize manual work time for organizations.

AWS Glue Features

AWS Glue groups its features into four categories - discover, prepare, integrate, and transform. Within those groups are the following features:

Automatic schema discovery: AWS Glue crawlers connect to the organization's source or target data source through a prioritized list of classifiers to determine the schema for users' data. This feature creates metadata in companies' AWS Glue Data Catalog.
Schemas for data stream management: The AWS Glue Schema Registry enables users to validate and control the evolution of streaming data through registered Apache Avro schemas for no additional charge.
Automatic scaling based on workload: This feature dynamically scales resources up and down based on workload. The feature controls job resources, removing them depending on how much the workload can be split up.
FindMatches: This feature is for machine learning-based data deduplication and cleansing, and works by finding records that are imperfect matches of each other to remove useless data copies.
Edit, debug, and test ETL code: This feature helps users who have chosen to interactively develop their ETL code by providing development endpoints for editing, debugging, and testing the code it generates for them.
AWS Glue DataBrew: An interactive, point-and-click visual interface for specialists to clean and normalize data without the need to write any code.
AWS Glue Interactive Sessions: This feature simplifies the development of data integration jobs by enabling data engineers to interactively prepare and explore data.
AWS Glue Studio Job Notebooks: This AWS Glue feature provides serverless notebooks with minimal setup, allowing developers to start working in a timely manner.
Complex ETL pipeline building: This feature allows the product to be invoked on a schedule, on demand, or based on an event, allowing users to start multiple jobs in parallel or specify dependencies to build complex ETL pipelines.
AWS Glue Studio: This AWS Glue feature allows users to visually transform data through a drag-and-drop interface. The product automatically generates the code for ETL processes for users' data.

AWS Glue Benefits

AWS Glue offers a wide range of benefits for its users. These benefits include:

Users of other AWS products can easily onboard with AWS Glue, as it is integrated across a wide range of the company's services.
The solution is serverless, which allows for a lower total cost of ownership.
AWS Glue offers more power for users, as it automates much of the effort in building, maintaining, and running ETL jobs.
The product allows customers to easily discover and search across all their AWS datasets through AWS Glue Data Catalog.
AWS Glue does not require additional payment for managing and enforcing schemas for data streams.
The solution facilitates the authority of scalable ETL jobs for beginners and non-coding experts through a drag-and-drop interface.

Reviews from Real Users

Mustapha A., a cloud data engineer at Jems Groupe, likes AWS Glue because it is a product that is great for serverless data transformations.

Liana I., CEO at Quark Technologies SRL, describes AWS Glue as a highly scalable, reliable, and beneficial pay-as-you-go pricing model.

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Talend Open Studio is a free, open source ETL tool for data integration and Big Data. The solution enables you to extract diverse datasets and normalize and transform them into a consistent format which can be loaded into a number of third-party databases and applications.

Talend Open Studio Features

Talend Open Studio has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Automatic identification of data types and potential errors
tMap module
Graphical conversion tools
Charts
Database SCD Tools
Business intelligence formats (Jasper, OLAP, SPSS, Splunk)
ETL and ELT support
Eclipse-based development tooling
Versioning
Large library of connectors
Data flow orchestration
File management without scripting
Data transformations

Talend Open Studio Benefits

There are several benefits to implementing Talend Open Studio. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Reduces the time taken to develop the integration.
Provides a wide selection of source and target connectors.
Monitor and manage problematic deployments with ease.
Allows developers to have the lowest cost of ownership for any solution.
Improves collaboration between different teams who need access to data.
Automated data integration process synchronizes the data and eases real time and periodic reporting, which would be time-consuming if done manually.
Achieve better data quality because data matures and improves over time.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Talend Open Studio solution.

Elio B., Data Integration Specialist/CTO at Asset messages, says, "The solution has a good balance between automated items and the ability for a developer to integrate and extend what he needs. Other competing tools do not offer the same grade of flexibility when you need to go beyond what is provided by the tool. Talend, on the other hand, allows you to expand very easily."

A Practice Head, Analytics at a tech services company mentions, “The data integration aspect of the solution is excellent. The product's data preparation features are very good. There's very useful data stewardship within the product. From a technical standpoint, the solution itself is pretty good. There are very good pre-built connectors in Talend, which is good for many clients or businesses, as, in most cases, companies are dealing with multiple data sources from multiple technologies. That is where a tool like Talend is extremely helpful.”

Prerna T., Senior System Executive at a tech services company, comments, “The best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups. With Salesforce, when we want to relate our child objects to their parent object, we need to create them via IDs. Then the upsert operation, which will allow you to relate a child object to the event, will have an external ID. That is the best thing which keeps it very sorted. I like that.”

An Implementation Specialist, Individual Contributor at a computer software company, states, “I can connect with different databases such as Oracle Database or SQL Server. It allows you to extract the data from one database to another. I can structure the data by filtering and mapping the fields.” He also adds, “It is very user-friendly. You need to know the basics of SQL development or SQL queries, and you can use this tool.”

PeerSpot user Badrakh V., Information System Architect at Astvision, explains, "The most valuable features are the ETL tools."

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