Amazon EMR vs Infobright DB comparison

"The solution is pretty simple to set up."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"The project management is very streamlined."

"It has very amazing smart grid query feature for very fast aggregate queries across millions of rows"

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

"Amazon EMR can improve by adding some features, such as megastore services and HiveServer2. Additionally, the user interface could be better, similar to what Apache service provides, cross-platform services."

"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."

"There is room for improvement in pricing."

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

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

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

"Only the data from the columns that reached 2GB will actually decrease. Other columns below 2GB in size do not leave the disk."

"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."

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

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"Amazon EMR is not very expensive."

"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's price is reasonable."

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

"Our pricing was based on server instances and it was actually very cheap compared to Oracle. I guess you get what you pay for."