G2 Vendor Directory

AWS Glue vs. Alation

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAWS Glue

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Alation

by Alation

Overall rating4.34.4
Review count20298
Ease of use8.68.6
Ease of setup8.88.4
Quality of support8.68.8
Meets requirements8.78.5
NPS48.45360860.416667
Small Business22.9%8.7%
Mid-Market28.4%30.4%
Enterprise48.8%60.9%
Total page views580857
Total LLM citations2,4677,844

AWS Glue

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easier for analytics users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning, and application develop-ment. You can discover and connect to 70+ diverse data sources, manage your data in a centralized data catalog, and visually create, run, and monitor ETL pipelines to load data into your data lakes. You can im-mediately search and query catalogued data using Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Data Integration
  • Features
  • ETL Solutions
  • Data Lineage
  • Data Cataloging

Alation

Alation is the creator of AIOS™, the open, governed, self-improving intelligence operating system for enterprises that cannot afford to get AI wrong. Having pioneered the data catalog market, Alation helps organizations establish trust in the agents, data, and context that power AI-driven decisions. The result is AI organizations can trust, enabling them to navigate regulatory complexity, maintain data fidelity, accelerate operational outcomes, and transform AI ambition into trusted business impact.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Data Discovery
  • User Experience
  • Data Cataloging
  • User Interface
  • Data Lineage