Amazon EMR vs IBM Spectrum Computing comparison

"The solution is scalable."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"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."

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

"Easy to operate and use."

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

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

"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."

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

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

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

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

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

"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 product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."

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

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

"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."

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

"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."

"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."

"We have not been able to use deduplication."

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

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"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."

"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."

"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."