WS Glue vs Talend: A Practical Comparison of ETL Tools

Konda, Vikitha (2024) WS Glue vs Talend: A Practical Comparison of ETL Tools. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

This project is a performance comparison of AWS Glue and Talend aimed at four ETL use cases, with a focus on data conversion, augmentation, handling of large files, and data transfer to Snowflake. In the test, it was found that AWS Glue outperformed the other AWS data-wrangling services in scalability, cost, and performance because it was serverless, unlike Athena, whereas Talend was easy to manage and provided profound control over the pipeline at each step. For scaled-out, cloud-native workloads, the results showed that Glue is a good fit, while Talend fits better in highly customized use cases. Criticisms of both tools are discussed, and strategies are provided on How best to use both tools together to maximize their effectiveness. The research offers precise recommendations that can help choose an appropriate tool from the ETL group for the given company’s needs.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Supervisors:	Name Email Gupta, Shaguna UNSPECIFIED
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Cloud computing
Divisions:	School of Computing > Master of Science in Cloud Computing
Depositing User:	Ciara O'Brien
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2025 13:43
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2025 13:43
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/8115

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