We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"Synapse makes it easy to integrate and onboard data from other Microsoft and Azure sources. The interface is familiar because we were using Azure Data Factory before Synapse. It made the transition even easier because the Synapse interface is exactly the same."
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"One of the most valuable features of this solution is its ability to integrate well with other services offered by Azure."
"We've had a good experience with technical support in general."
"Synapse Analytics' best features are notebooks, pipelines, and monitoring."
"This is a stable solution with many functionalities."
"The solution's best feature is its predictive analytics."
"Data can be stored any way you want in the data warehouse."
"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 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."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"The initial setup process needs improvement. When you're moving to the cloud it takes a bit of time. It would be great if they could implement something that would make it faster."
"Synapse Analytics' performance slows down if you don't get your distribution right because it gets queued and goes into a single node."
"I would like to see them provide the ingestion of images."
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics can improve by increasing the size of the files that we can load on the platform. We have some files that are too large to be loaded and it would be a benefit to us if the limit was increased. Additionally, the way we use the tool for generating reports can be made better. They should add some drag-and-drop rules without the need of programming these rules using some programming language. It would be helpful if we did not need someone that was technically advanced to be able to do it with, such as someone with no IT background. Having a reporting tool without code would be great."
"Non-structured data is unavailable with this product."
"I would like to see better integration with Active Directory, because we have had problems, and we still do."
"The filing can be improved."
"The platform is not flexible, and the graphical user interface needs to be improved because the interface makes it hard for the end user to use it."
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Amazon EMR is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 20 reviews while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 85 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". Amazon EMR is most compared with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Azure Data Factory and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, whereas Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, SAP BW4HANA, Amazon Redshift and Oracle Exadata. See our Amazon EMR vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics report.
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