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."

"The project management is very streamlined."

"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."

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

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"The solution is pretty simple to set up."

"Amazon EMR has multiple connectors that can connect to various data sources."

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

"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."

"It can be mounted on the cloud, which is a huge plus. If the client, for example, starts small with on-premise deployment and then it rapidly needs to grow, we can transfer this to the cloud easily."

"Provides good security and reliability."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The initial setup was time-consuming."

"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."

"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."

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

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

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

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

"The areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."

"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."

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

"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."

"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."

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

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

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

"Amazon EMR is not very 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."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

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