AWS Glue vs. Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Glue
Score 7.5 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
Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Databricks in San Francisco offers the Databricks Lakehouse Platform (formerly the Unified Analytics Platform), a data science platform and Apache Spark cluster manager. The Databricks Unified Data Service aims to provide a reliable and scalable platform for data pipelines, data lakes, and data platforms. Users can manage full data journey, to ingest, process, store, and expose data throughout an organization. Its Data Science Workspace is a collaborative environment for practitioners to run…
$0.07
Per DBU
Pricing
AWS GlueDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
Editions & Modules
per DPU-Hour
$0.44
billed per second, 1 minute minimum
Standard
$0.07
Per DBU
Premium
$0.10
Per DBU
Enterprise
$0.13
Per DBU
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS GlueDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Score 8.0 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Usability
7.0
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7.0
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8.7
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User Testimonials
AWS GlueDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
When the data which requires ETL has different formats, schema, and volume, this service suits them best. So, when the volume is not consistent (typical use-case of healthcare and online shopping), AWS Glue can be the prime choice. When the data is available in both batch and streaming mode, the developer needs to generate a separate codebase. This increases the source code management efforts. So, prefer to go with Glue when the nature of the data is the same (either batched or streamed).
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If you need a managed big data megastore, which has native integration with highly optimized Apache Spark Engine and native integration with MLflow, go for Databricks Lakehouse Platform. The Databricks Lakehouse Platform is a breeze to use and analytics capabilities are supported out of the box. You will find it a bit difficult to manage code in notebooks but you will get used to it soon.
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Pros
  • After data cleansing, the team also implemented the best practices for using AWS platform services as a Data Lake, such as job bookmarking for AWS Glue jobs, proper delimiter for the AWS Glue crawlers, partitioning in AWS S3, and transformation to parquet file for compression and faster querying time in Amazon Athena.
  • Data modernization through combining data from multiple sources into a functioning datasets, rebuilding DW, and resctructuring data sources.
  • Aims to lessen customer complaints, eliminate manual data extraction requests via SR from different data sources, and Increase accuracy, consistency and speed up reconciliation process.
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  • There is databricks community, which is a free version. It is available for beginners to have an easy start with a big data platform. It does not have every feature of the full version but is still adequate for extremely new coders.
  • There are many resourceful training elements that are available to developers, data scientists, data engineers and other IT professionals to learn Apache Spark.
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Cons
  • It’s integration with other cloud vendors is bit difficult
  • If it can support non SQL based databases as well, it would be powerful.
  • Real time data synchronisation in data source is missing
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  • Connect my local code in Visual code to my Databricks Lakehouse Platform cluster so I can run the code on the cluster. The old databricks-connect approach has many bugs and is hard to set up. The new Databricks Lakehouse Platform extension on Visual Code, doesn't allow the developers to debug their code line by line (only we can run the code).
  • Maybe have a specific Databricks Lakehouse Platform IDE that can be used by Databricks Lakehouse Platform users to develop locally.
  • Visualization in MLFLOW experiment can be enhanced
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Usability
I personally found it very usable for a data engineer's day job, particularly for performing ETL and managing the data pipelines.
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Because it is an amazing platform for designing experiments and delivering a deep dive analysis that requires execution of highly complex queries, as well as it allows to share the information and insights across the company with their shared workspaces, while keeping it secured.

in terms of graph generation and interaction it could improve their UI and UX
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Support Rating
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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One of the best customer and technology support that I have ever experienced in my career. You pay for what you get and you get the Rolls Royce. It reminds me of the customer support of SAS in the 2000s when the tools were reaching some limits and their engineer wanted to know more about what we were doing, long before "data science" was even a name. Databricks truly embraces the partnership with their customer and help them on any given challenge.
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Alternatives Considered
The cataloging of data objects is the best in the case of AWS Glue. We use AWS Glue in all of our data pipelines to sync external and internal data sources and to automatically produce SQL-based ETL based on AWS Glue catalog objects. Integration with Amazon products is the other advantage.
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Databricks is a true all-in-one platform, and at the time of implementation, it had more features available to us, making it a clear choice over Snowflake. Moving our workloads from local computing to the servers in Databricks gave our start-up staff a great quality of life boost.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive Impact :- after ETL we can able to do some kind of automation
  • Negative :- At some point of time it can hamper the cost but not really
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  • ROI for us has been tremendous. Time to market by processing raw data in our big data infrastructure has been pretty fast.
  • Non engineers can easily use Databricks, hence helping business customers.
  • Thousands of different data combinations can easily be joined and used by our data teams.
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