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AWS Glue

52Judge labels
0First choices
10Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in ETL for mid-market buyers
Rank 14 of 66 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 18 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In etl · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named AWS Glue for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
ETL and ELTData platform0%14 of 6617%18accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for AWS Glue yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated AWS Glue across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501113
GPT-5.4 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash01012
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast00202
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00112
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash02103
Kimi K200202
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.501001

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct7 labelsNone
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative17 labelsNone
Budget-constrained7 labelsNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative12 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative52 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Already in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) | AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, or Google Cloud Dataflow” MiniMax M2.5 · ETL · budget prompt · alternative
“Azure Data Factory/AWS Glue if you're already committed to that cloud provider” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ETL · direct prompt · alternative
“Best for teams already in AWS that want Spark-based, serverless data processing.” Perplexity Sonar · ETL · comparative prompt · alternative
“a cloud-native option like AWS Glue or a warehouse-centric stack may be enough” GPT-5.4 mini · ETL · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“these visual transformation steps spin up massive Apache Spark clusters. They are highly resource-intensive and extremely expensive” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative
“Glue retries only when the Spark job itself fails, ignoring data errors... Glue Workflows lack built-in dependency tracking” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative
“Popular but carries genuine cost and usability traps” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AWS Glue, over the 52 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS Glue was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Fivetran44 of 5215Not in the top three
Airbyte38 of 529Not in the top three
Talend34 of 522Not in the top three
Azure Data Factory33 of 520Not in the top three
Matillion25 of 521Not in the top three
dbt23 of 522Not in the top three
Stitch22 of 521Not in the top three
Apache Airflow20 of 521Not in the top three
Hevo Data18 of 522Not in the top three
Informatica16 of 521Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named AWS Glue. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 37 of the 52 answers that named AWS Glue and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

integrate.io31
hevodata.com25
fivetran.com19
airbyte.com17
estuary.dev16
stacksync.com16
sqream.com14
domo.com12
g2.com12
weld.app10

172 of the 172 domain citations in answers naming AWS Glue came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as AWS Glue

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as AWS Glue; a claim can dispute any of them.
AWS Glue Visual Editor 1
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when AWS Glue's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as AWS Glue, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at aws.amazon.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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