Amazon EMR vs IBM Db2 Warehouse comparison

"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."

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

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

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

"The initial setup is straightforward."

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

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

"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."

"Provides good security and reliability."

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

"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 analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."

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

"The solution is stable."

"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."

"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."

"There is room for improvement with respect to retries, handling the volume of data on S3 buckets, cluster provisioning, scaling, termination, security, and integration between services like S3, Glue, Lake Formation, and DynamoDB."

"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."

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

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

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

"The initial setup was time-consuming."

"We don't have much control. If we have multiple users, if they want to scale up, the cost will go and increase and we don't know how we can restrict that price part."

"It takes a long time to have a new version or release, similar to Oracle."

"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

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

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

"The price of the solution is 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."

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

"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."

"Amazon EMR is not very expensive."

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