Amazon EMR vs Netezza Analytics comparison

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

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

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

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

"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."

"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."

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

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

"The most valuable feature is the performance."

"For me, as an end-user, everything that I do on the solution is simple, clear, and understandable."

"It is a back end for our SSIS, MicroStrategy,, Tableau. All of these are connecting to get the data. To do so we are also using our analytics which is built on the data."

"Speed contributes to large capacity."

"Data compression. It was relatively impressive. I think at some point we were getting 4:1 compression if not more."

"The need for administration involvement is quite limited on the solution."

"The performance of the solution is its most valuable feature. The solution is easy to administer as well. It's very user-friendly. On the technical side, the architecture is simple to understand and you don't need too many administrators to handle the solution."

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

"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."

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

"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."

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

"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."

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

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

"Administration of this product is too tough. It's very complex because of the tools which it's missing."

"The solution could implement more reporting tools and networking utilities."

"I'm not sure of IBM's roadmap currently, as the solution is coming up on its end of life."

"In-DB processing with SAS Analytics, since this is supposed to be an analytics server so the expectation is there."

"The Analytics feature should be simplified."

"The hardware has a risk of failure. They need to improve this."

"Disaster recovery support. Because it was an appliance, and if you wanted to support disaster recovery, you needed to buy two."

"The most valuable features of this solution are robustness and support."

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

"The price of the solution is 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."

"Amazon EMR is not very 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."

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

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

"Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."

"The annual licensing fees are twenty-two percent of the product cost."

"For me, mainly, it reduces my costs. It's not only the appliance cost. There are also support costs and a maintenance costs. It does reduce the costs very drastically."