We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, Cloudera, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Hadoop."The initial setup is straightforward."
"We are using applications, such as Splunk, Livy, Hadoop, and Spark. We are using all of these applications in Amazon EMR and they're helping us a lot."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"The GUI interface is nice and easy to use."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"As people are shifting from legacy solutions to other technologies, Amazon EMR needs to add more features that give more flexibility in managing user data."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"There was an issue with the incremental aggregation not working as indicated."
"The product was not able to meet our 10 second refresh requirements."
"The organization of the icons is not saved across users."
Earn 20 points
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is ranked 5th in Data Virtualization. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) writes "The GUI interface is nice and easy to use, but the organization of the icons is not saved across users". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Apache Spark, whereas AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is most compared with Denodo, Dremio, ThoughtSpot, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Kyvos.
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