Amazon EMR vs IBM Spectrum Computing comparison

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

"It has a variety of options and support systems."

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

"We are using Amazon EMR to clean the data and transform the data in such a way that the end-user can get the insights faster."

"We are using applications, such as Splunk, Livy, Hadoop, and Spark. We are using all of these applications in Amazon EMR and they're helping us a lot."

"The solution is scalable."

"Amazon EMR provides out-of-the-box functionality because we can deploy and get Spark functionality over Hadoop."

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

"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."

"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."

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

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

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

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

"Easy to operate and use."

"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."

"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."

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

"The initial setup was time-consuming."

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

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

"I feel some lack of functionality in Amazon EMR."

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

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

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

"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."

"We have not been able to use deduplication."

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

"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."

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

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

"The deduplication software isn't quite up to speed with the market."

"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."

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

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

"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."

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

"This solution is expensive."

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