Amazon EMR vs IBM Spectrum Computing comparison

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

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

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

"The project management is very streamlined."

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

"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."

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

"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,"

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

"Easy to operate and use."

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

"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."

"In Qubole, the interface was very good. I could see many details because in Amazon EMR console, very few details are available."

"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."

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

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

"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."

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

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

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

"We have not been able to use deduplication."

"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."

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

"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

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

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

"This solution is expensive."

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