AWS Database Migration Service vs. AWS Glue

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Database Migration Service
Score 8.3 out of 10
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AWS Database Migration Service helps users migrate databases to AWS. The source database remains fully operational during the migration to minimize downtime to applications that rely on the database. The vendor states that AWS Database Migration Service can migrate data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases.N/A
AWS Glue
Score 7.6 out of 10
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AWS Glue is a managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service designed to make it easy for customers to prepare and load data for analytics. With it, users can create and run an ETL job in the AWS Management Console. Users point AWS Glue to data stored on AWS, and AWS Glue discovers data and stores the associated metadata (e.g. table definition and schema) in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Once cataloged, data is immediately searchable, queryable, and available for ETL.
$0.44
billed per second, 1 minute minimum
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AWS Database Migration ServiceAWS Glue
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per DPU-Hour
$0.44
billed per second, 1 minute minimum
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AWS Database Migration ServiceAWS Glue
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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AWS Database Migration ServiceAWS Glue
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AWS Glue
Chose AWS Glue
The main reason we choose AWS Glue over Talend Open Studio 1) Does not support Spark 2) Run only on java 3) not really feasible solution for heavy workloads 4) most of the cases need customer support 5) no proper documentation is available
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User Ratings
AWS Database Migration ServiceAWS Glue
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
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7.0
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User Testimonials
AWS Database Migration ServiceAWS Glue
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
As stated previously, AWS Database Migration Service excels when replicating very specific data elements between environments. AWS Database Migration Service handles replication tasks to load equipment assets or customer job sites from production to QA databases very well. Full load replication - e.g., we need an exact copy of the production database in another region - works well. But when we need to load the QA database with the latest production data - it does work as well. AWS Database Migration Service comes up short because we do not want to wipe the QA database completely and make an exact copy. We want to keep what's already in the QA database and add production data so that we can QA with that level of volume. And at least with our database design, we end up having to do a lot of manual data manipulation and de-duplication.
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Amazon AWS
One of AWS Glue's most notable features that aid in the creation and transformation of data is its data catalog. Support, scheduling, and the automation of the data schema recognition make it superior to its competitors aside from that. It also integrates perfectly with other AWS tools. The main restriction may be integrated with systems outside of the AWS environment. It functions flawlessly with the current AWS services but not with other goods. Another potential restriction that comes to mind is that glue operates on a spark, which means the engineer needs to be conversant in the language.
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Pros
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  • It is extremely fast, easy, and self-intuitive. Though it is a suite of services, it requires pretty less time to get control over it.
  • As it is a managed service, one need not take care of a lot of underlying details. The identification of data schema, code generation, customization, and orchestration of the different job components allows the developers to focus on the core business problem without worrying about infrastructure issues.
  • It is a pay-as-you-go service. So, there is no need to provide any capacity in advance. So, it makes scheduling much easier.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
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Amazon AWS
  • In-Stream schema registries feature people can not use this more efficiently
  • in Connections feature they can add more connectors as well
  • The crucial problem with AWS Glue is that it only works with AWS.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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Amazon AWS
Amazon responds in good time once the ticket has been generated but needs to generate tickets frequent because very few sample codes are available, and it's not cover all the scenarios.
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Alternatives Considered
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Amazon AWS
AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL service that automates many ETL tasks, making it easier to set AWS Glue simplifies ETL through a visual interface and automated code generation.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Set it and forget it for maintaining data consistency - moderate cost, zero to minimal maintenance
  • High touch production data loads into QA - negative ROI engineering time investment far exceeded our predictions
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Amazon AWS
  • It had a positive impact on the way we build our data lake.
  • It is the single source of truth for data structure (schemas/tables/views).
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