Amazon EMR vs IBM Db2 Warehouse comparison

"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."

"The solution is pretty simple to set up."

"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."

"I rate Amazon EMR as ten out of ten."

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."

"IBM Db2 Warehouse is more resilient when dealing with business intelligence applications."

"The most valuable features of IBM Db2 Warehouse include its availability, easy integration, ability to deal with a large size of data, excellent performance with no delays, powerful security mechanisms, and effective support."

"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."

"Provides good security and reliability."

"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."

"It can scale effectively as long as resources are available."

"I think it scales really well and as long as you take enough time to learn a little bit about it, it works really well."

"The solution is stable."

"There is room for improvement in pricing."

"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."

"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."

"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."

"In Qubole, the interface was very good. I could see many details because in Amazon EMR console, very few details are available."

"Spark jobs take longer on Amazon EMR compared to previous experiences."

"Amazon EMR can improve by adding some features, such as megastore services and HiveServer2. Additionally, the user interface could be better, similar to what Apache service provides, cross-platform services."

"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."

"The primary challenges customers face with IBM Db2 Warehouse are related to its complexity in usage. It requires highly skilled professionals who understand Db2, and both training and support are challenging to obtain."

"The biggest challenge anyone could have with Db2 Warehouse is their references or online resources and documentation. They are very, very, very limited on the web."

"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."

"Responding to support tickets takes a lot of time. It can range from two to four days, even for critical issues."

"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."

"The biggest problems we have is when the backup solution is failing or slow and we run out of log space, which has happened probably a couple of times in the last four years."

"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."

"The primary challenges customers face with IBM Db2 Warehouse are related to its complexity in usage. It requires highly skilled professionals who understand Db2, and both training and support are challenging to obtain."

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"You don't need to pay for licensing on a yearly or monthly basis, you only pay for what you use, in terms of underlying instances."

"I rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten. It can be expensive since it's a managed service, and if you are not careful, you can run into unexpected charges. You can make a mistake that costs you tens of thousands of dollars. That's happened to us twice, so I'm sensitive to it. We're still trying to work on that. Our smallest client probably spends a hundred thousand dollars yearly on licensing, while our largest is well over a million."

"There is a small fee for the EMR system, but major cost components are the underlying infrastructure resources which we actually use."

"The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."

"In a traditional on-prem database, in a data warehouse, the solution is probably on the expensive side."