Amazon EMR vs IBM Db2 Warehouse comparison

"The security of the managed workflow and the managed services are the best features for us. Since we inherited their security model and it's all managed services, those are the key benefits for our clients."

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

"The solution is pretty simple to set up."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."

"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."

"The solution is scalable."

"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."

"The solution is stable."

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

"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."

"There is room for improvement in pricing."

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

"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."

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

"The problem for us is it starts very slow."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"There were some initial challenges with IBM Db2 Warehouse about eight months ago when I worked in this environment. When I coordinated with IBM support, they mentioned that the memory was insufficient for our needs. Our business environment required significantly more memory than the previous cluster could provide. Consequently, we have worked closely with on-site IBM technical personnel to address this issue."

"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 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."

"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

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

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"Amazon EMR is not very expensive."

"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."

"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."

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

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