AWS Glue vs. SAS Data Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Glue
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
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
SAS Data Management
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
A suite of solutions for data connectivity, enhanced transformations and robust governance. Solutions provide a unified view of data with access to data across databases, data warehouses and data lakes. Connects with cloud platforms, on-premises systems and multicloud data sources.N/A
Pricing
AWS GlueSAS Data Management
Editions & Modules
per DPU-Hour
$0.44
billed per second, 1 minute minimum
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS GlueSAS Data Management
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
AWS GlueSAS Data Management
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
AWS Glue
-
Ratings
SAS Data Management
8.3
10 Ratings
0% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings8.610 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
AWS Glue
-
Ratings
SAS Data Management
6.7
8 Ratings
21% below category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings6.18 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings7.48 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
AWS Glue
-
Ratings
SAS Data Management
6.7
8 Ratings
19% below category average
Data model creation00 Ratings5.56 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings7.47 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings6.67 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings6.17 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
AWS Glue
-
Ratings
SAS Data Management
7.9
9 Ratings
5% below category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings7.69 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
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User Ratings
AWS GlueSAS Data Management
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(7 ratings)
7.6
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
7.7
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS GlueSAS Data Management
Likelihood to Recommend
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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SAS
When data is in a system that needs a complex transformation to be usable for an average user. Such tasks as data residing in systems that have very different connection speeds. It can be integrated and used together after passing through the SAS Data Integration Studio removing timing issues from the users' worries. A part that is perhaps less appropriate is getting users who are not familiar with the source data to set up the load processes.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • 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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SAS
  • SAS/Access is great for manipulating large and complex databases.
  • SAS/Access makes it easy to format reports and graphics from your data.
  • Data Management and data storage using the Hadoop environment in SAS/Access allows for rapid analysis and simple programming language for all your data needs.
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Cons
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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SAS
  • Requires third-party drivers to connect to common data sources like SFDC, MS SQL, Postgres.
  • Debugging errors from the logs is a complicated process.
  • E-mail alert system is very primitive and needs customization to make it more modern,
  • Cannot send SMS alerts for jobs.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
SAS
We are happy with the software and its functionality. As a SAS-shop, DataFlux is a logical choice for complex data integration.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
SAS
The main negative point is the use of a non-standard language for customizations, as well as the poor integration with non-SAS systems. However, there is no doubt that it is a high-performance and powerful product capable of responding optimally to certain requirements.
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Performance
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
SAS
It worked as expected.
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Support Rating
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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SAS
With SAS, you pay a license fee annually to use this product. Support is incredible. You get what you pay for, whether it's SAS forums on the SAS support site, technical support tickets via email or phone calls, or example documentation. It's not open source. It's documented thoroughly, and it works.
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Alternatives Considered
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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SAS
Because of ease of using SAS DI and data processing speed. There were lots of issues with AWS Redshift on cloud environment in terms of making connections with the data sources and while fetching the data we need to write complex queries.
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Return on Investment
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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SAS
  • We have more users who can connect to the many different data sources.
  • Our users do have existing SAS programming knowledge and that can carry over.
  • Business functions are starting to rely on SAS Data Integration Studio work product shortly after introduction.
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