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  5. AWS Glue vs AtScale

AWS Glue vs AtScale

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Overview

AtScale
AtScale
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Followers83
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AWS Glue
AWS Glue
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Followers819
Votes9

AWS Glue vs AtScale: 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, AtScale is detailed as "The virtual data warehouse for the modern enterprise". Its Virtual Data Warehouse delivers performance, security and agility to exceed the demands of modern-day operational analytics.

AWS Glue and AtScale can be categorized as "Big Data" tools.

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, AtScale provides the following key features:

  • Multiple SQL-on-Hadoop Engine Support
  • Access Data Where it Lays
  • Built-in Support for Complex Data Types

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Advice on AtScale, AWS Glue

Vamshi
Vamshi

Data Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services

May 29, 2020

Needs adviceonPySparkPySparkAzure Data FactoryAzure Data FactoryDatabricksDatabricks

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
datocrats-org

Jul 29, 2020

Needs adviceonAmazon EC2Amazon EC2TableauTableauPowerBIPowerBI

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
Pavithra

Mar 12, 2020

Needs adviceonAmazon S3Amazon S3Amazon AthenaAmazon AthenaAmazon RedshiftAmazon 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

AtScale
AtScale
AWS Glue
AWS Glue

Its Virtual Data Warehouse delivers performance, security and agility to exceed the demands of modern-day operational analytics.

A fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.

Multiple SQL-on-Hadoop Engine Support; Access Data Where it Lays; Built-in Support for Complex Data Types; Single Drop-in Gateway Node Deployment
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.
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Followers
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    Managed Hive Metastore
Integrations
Python
Python
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Tableau
Tableau
Power BI
Power BI
Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS
Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena
MySQL
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon EMR
Amazon EMR
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora
Oracle
Oracle
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

What are some alternatives to AtScale, AWS Glue?

Metabase

Metabase

It is an easy way to generate charts and dashboards, ask simple ad hoc queries without using SQL, and see detailed information about rows in your Database. You can set it up in under 5 minutes, and then give yourself and others a place to ask simple questions and understand the data your application is generating.

Apache Spark

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

Presto

Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data

Amazon Athena

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.

Superset

Superset

Superset's main goal is to make it easy to slice, dice and visualize data. It empowers users to perform analytics at the speed of thought.

Apache Flink

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

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

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.

Cube

Cube

Cube: the universal semantic layer that makes it easy to connect BI silos, embed analytics, and power your data apps and AI with context.

Power BI

Power BI

It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.

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