AWS Glue vs Amundsen

Overview

AWS Glue

Stacks461

Followers819

Votes9

Amundsen

Stacks17

Followers42

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AWS Glue vs Amundsen: What are the differences?

Developers describe AWS Glue as "Fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service". A fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. On the other hand, Amundsen is detailed as "A metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers". It is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.

AWS Glue and Amundsen belong to "Big Data Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by AWS Glue are:

Easy - AWS Glue automates much of the effort in building, maintaining, and running ETL jobs. AWS Glue crawls your data sources, identifies data formats, and suggests schemas and transformations. AWS Glue automatically generates the code to execute your data transformations and loading processes.
Integrated - AWS Glue is integrated across a wide range of AWS services.
Serverless - AWS Glue is serverless. There is no infrastructure to provision or manage. AWS Glue handles provisioning, configuration, and scaling of the resources required to run your ETL jobs on a fully managed, scale-out Apache Spark environment. You pay only for the resources used while your jobs are running.

On the other hand, Amundsen provides the following key features:

Datasets (Tables) schema and usage frequency/popularity
Users bookmark, owner, frequent user
Dashboard popularity, lineage to datasets

Amundsen is an open source tool with 889 GitHub stars and 163 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Amundsen's open source repository on GitHub.

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Advice on AWS Glue, Amundsen

Vamshi

Data Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services

May 29, 2020

Needs adviceon

PySpark

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

I have to collect different data from multiple sources and store them in a single cloud location. Then perform cleaning and transforming using PySpark, and push the end results to other applications like reporting tools, etc. What would be the best solution? I can only think of Azure Data Factory + Databricks. Are there any alternatives to #AWS services + Databricks?

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datocrats-org

Jul 29, 2020

Needs adviceon

Amazon EC2

Tableau

PowerBI

We need to perform ETL from several databases into a data warehouse or data lake. We want to

keep raw and transformed data available to users to draft their own queries efficiently
give users the ability to give custom permissions and SSO
move between open-source on-premises development and cloud-based production environments

We want to use inexpensive Amazon EC2 instances only on medium-sized data set 16GB to 32GB feeding into Tableau Server or PowerBI for reporting and data analysis purposes.

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Pavithra

Mar 12, 2020

Needs adviceon

Amazon S3

Amazon Athena

Amazon Redshift

Hi all,

Currently, we need to ingest the data from Amazon S3 to DB either Amazon Athena or Amazon Redshift. But the problem with the data is, it is in .PSV (pipe separated values) format and the size is also above 200 GB. The query performance of the timeout in Athena/Redshift is not up to the mark, too slow while compared to Google BigQuery. How would I optimize the performance and query result time? Can anyone please help me out?

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Detailed Comparison

AWS Glue	Amundsen
A fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.	It is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.
Easy - AWS Glue automates much of the effort in building, maintaining, and running ETL jobs. AWS Glue crawls your data sources, identifies data formats, and suggests schemas and transformations. AWS Glue automatically generates the code to execute your data transformations and loading processes.; Integrated - AWS Glue is integrated across a wide range of AWS services.; Serverless - AWS Glue is serverless. There is no infrastructure to provision or manage. AWS Glue handles provisioning, configuration, and scaling of the resources required to run your ETL jobs on a fully managed, scale-out Apache Spark environment. You pay only for the resources used while your jobs are running.; Developer Friendly - AWS Glue generates ETL code that is customizable, reusable, and portable, using familiar technology - Scala, Python, and Apache Spark. You can also import custom readers, writers and transformations into your Glue ETL code. Since the code AWS Glue generates is based on open frameworks, there is no lock-in. You can use it anywhere.	Datasets (Tables) schema and usage frequency/popularity; Users bookmark, owner, frequent user; Dashboard popularity, lineage to datasets
Statistics
Stacks 461	Stacks 17
Followers 819	Followers 42
Votes 9	Votes 0
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Integrations
Amazon Redshift Amazon S3 Amazon RDS Amazon Athena MySQL Microsoft SQL Server Amazon EMR Amazon Aurora Oracle Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL	Google BigQuery Snowflake Superset Apache Hive

What are some alternatives to AWS Glue, Amundsen?

Apache Spark

Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning.

Presto

Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data

Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

Apache Flink

Apache Flink is an open source system for fast and versatile data analytics in clusters. Flink supports batch and streaming analytics, in one system. Analytical programs can be written in concise and elegant APIs in Java and Scala.

lakeFS

It is an open-source data version control system for data lakes. It provides a “Git for data” platform enabling you to implement best practices from software engineering on your data lake, including branching and merging, CI/CD, and production-like dev/test environments.

Druid

Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store that is commonly used to power exploratory dashboards in multi-tenant environments. Druid excels as a data warehousing solution for fast aggregate queries on petabyte sized data sets. Druid supports a variety of flexible filters, exact calculations, approximate algorithms, and other useful calculations.

Apache Kylin

Apache Kylin™ is an open source Distributed Analytics Engine designed to provide SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on Hadoop/Spark supporting extremely large datasets, originally contributed from eBay Inc.

Splunk

It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.

Apache Impala

Impala is a modern, open source, MPP SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop. Impala is shipped by Cloudera, MapR, and Amazon. With Impala, you can query data, whether stored in HDFS or Apache HBase – including SELECT, JOIN, and aggregate functions – in real time.