Alteryx Designer Cloud vs. AWS Glue

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alteryx Designer Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Trifacta is a "data wrangling" (or data preparation) platform particularly of use with Hadoop, developed by the company Trifacta headquartered in San Francisco, California. Alteryx announced their acquisition of Trifacta in January of 2022.
$100
per month per user
AWS Glue
Score 7.7 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
Pricing
Alteryx Designer CloudAWS Glue
Editions & Modules
Starter
$100
per month per user
Professional
$500
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom
per DPU-Hour
$0.44
billed per second, 1 minute minimum
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Alteryx Designer CloudAWS Glue
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsStarter & Professional plans include a charge of + $0.60 / vCPU hour. 20% discount for annual pricing.
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User Ratings
Alteryx Designer CloudAWS Glue
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(3 ratings)
8.1
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Alteryx Designer CloudAWS Glue
Likelihood to Recommend
Alteryx
For doing ETL and data transformations where your data is already in a cloud environment Alteryx Designer Cloud is ideal. It allows for the continued democratisation of data and analytics to permeate more extensively throughout a business, particularly those that are already in the cloud or have cloud services in place and are comfortable with procurement and consumption of these systems over and above desktop software. The ETL processing for data validation and wrangling uses machine learning to enable highly efficient data manipulation which saves lots of time and this is a distinct advantage over the desktop software. The expansion and integration of other Alteryx cloud services such as ML, Metrics Store and App builder will only strengthen this position
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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
Alteryx
  • Gives automatic options for code.
  • Allows for notes on code.
  • Duplicates work and allows for repurposing work.
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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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Cons
Alteryx
  • Hadoop source data tables are presented in a flat searchable list but I would rather see them in the native hierarchy.
  • Web interface can be flaky. We often need to refresh the page.
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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
Alteryx
No answers on this topic
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
Alteryx
Our IT group presented Trifacta to me. They picked it out and among the crowd for me. This was way beyond ETL tools, SQL, or any programming language. It's just much faster and because it's sitting on Hadoop you bypass some of the slowdowns typically faced with RDBMS.
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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
Alteryx
  • Increased productvity by 5x
  • Reduced costs of running and patching desktop and server based software entirely
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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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