Amazon EMR vs Microsoft Analytics Platform System comparison

"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."

"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 solution is scalable."

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

"This tool is simple to use and it's really accessible to many dev teams."

"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 has multiple connectors that can connect to various data sources."

"The stability of the product has been great overall."

"I like that it's integrated with other Azure products."

"I like that it's integrated with other Azure products."

"The result is a highly flexible, affordable, and scalable platform that makes large-scale Hub and Spoke EDW architectures a practical reality."

"The most valuable part of the product is that it is a system, with different tools for different services for different kinds of scenarios, making it a very rich, integrated, technology-rich platform whose total integration with the rest of Microsoft products creates flexibility and compatibility and makes the tool a very useful one."

"Microsoft Analytics Platform System's most valuable feature is its ecosystems and seamless integration with other Microsoft reporting platforms and databases."

"This solution will connect to any database, you can combine databases, and you can create a cube or tabular model."

"We help customers in many ways from customized analysis for detection of anomalies in tax, operations, customer relationship, and marketing campaigns, and we also use mining and ML to help them discover trends, which provides useful information based on their business."

"I think Microsoft Stack offers the end-to-end solution I need."

"Better monitoring, debugging, and stability are all needed."

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

"The web interface for managing all your cloud services is a bit patchy and needs improvement."

"We don't have much control. If we have multiple users, if they want to scale up, the cost will go and increase and we don't know how we can restrict that price part."

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

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

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

"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and to ensure it's running correctly."

"The trouble is Microsoft has changed their licensing. It's an extremely expensive product now."

"Hybrid environments are complex to manage."

"​Hybrid environments are complex to manage."

"We need better real-time analytics capabilities. It's a bit challenging for us."

"I think the biggest problem with the product is that it does a data ingest model, which is very expensive."

"The flexibility of this solution needs to be improved because you cannot make changes at every one of the different steps."

"In general, I am not really very satisfied with the tutorials that are out there."

"Microsoft Analytics Platform System could have better support."

"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 price of the solution is expensive."

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

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

"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."

"The initial price is lower than Oracle, but extensive use of SQL may lead to a higher total cost of ownership."

"Users have to pay extra for premium-level technical support."

"I rate Microsoft Analytics Platform System a seven out of ten for pricing."

"We are currently paying $200,000 a year for all the different parts of the suite during an ingest model Microsoft now charges us $700,000 a year."