We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR, Hortonworks Data Platform, and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, Cloudera, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Hadoop."One of the valuable features about this solution is that it's managed services, so it's pretty stable, and scalable as much as you wish. It has all the necessary distributions. With some additional work, it's also possible to change to a Spark version with the latest version of EMR. It also has Hudi, so we are leveraging Apache Hudi on EMR for change data capture, so then it comes out-of-the-box in EMR."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"The Hortonworks solution is so stable. It is working as a production system, without any error, without any downtime. If I have downtime, it is mostly caused by the hardware of the computers."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."
"Now, using this solution, it is much cheaper to have all of the data available for searching, not in real-time, but whenever there is a pending request."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"InfoSphere Streams was the one core product from the platform in which we were using. We were building a real-time response system and we built it on InfoSphere Streams."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"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 legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"I would like to see more support for containers such as Docker and OpenShift."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases."
"The UI was not interactive: Responses used to be very slow and hang up at times."
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