AWS Glue vs Kudu: 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, Kudu is detailed as "Fast Analytics on Fast Data. A columnar storage manager developed for the Hadoop platform". A new addition to the open source Apache Hadoop ecosystem, Kudu completes Hadoop's storage layer to enable fast analytics on fast data.
AWS Glue and Kudu can be primarily classified as "Big Data" tools.
Kudu is an open source tool with 789 GitHub stars and 263 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kudu's open source repository on GitHub.