Amazon EMR vs IBM Spectrum Computing comparison

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

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

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

"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 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 ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."

"The solution is scalable."

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

"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."

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

"Easy to operate and use."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"The solution can become expensive if you are not careful."

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

"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 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."

"The initial setup was time-consuming."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."

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

"We have not been able to use deduplication."

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

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

"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 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'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."

"Amazon EMR is not very expensive."

"This solution is expensive."

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