Amazon EMR vs IBM Spectrum Computing 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."

"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 solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."

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

"The solution is pretty simple to set up."

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

"The solution is scalable."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"I have utilized IBM Spectrum Computing's intelligent workload management feature through Insights, which is connected to the cloud."

"Easy to operate and use."

"IBM's ability to cluster compute resources is impressive, with built-in support for scenarios like VR and active-active configurations,"

"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."

"The comparison was challenging, but the IBM Spectrum Scale offered a balanced solution. Our engineers rated itsanalytics capabilities equally high as Pure Storage. For workload management, Spectrum Computing provided effective solutions that met our needs. Workload management is part of a complete solution that uses different tools. There were the cloud and HPC parts; within HPC, there were parts like liquid cooling, simple computing, storage, and orchestration. The orchestration team handled the workload management."

"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."

"The best features of IBM Spectrum Computing are common across many of their storage products."

"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."

"IBM's sales and support structure can be challenging."

"We have not been able to use deduplication."

"In Pakistan, IBM's disadvantage is the lack of OEM support and presence."

"The deduplication software isn't quite up to speed with the market. While IBM has excellent compression technology, specifically on their FlashCore modules, they lag behind competitors such as NetApp in deduplication capabilities."

"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."

"Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud."

"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

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

"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."

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

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

"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."

"This solution is expensive."

"Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market."