Amazon EMR vs Netezza Analytics comparison

"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."

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

"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."

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

"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 straightforward."

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

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

"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."

"The most valuable feature is the performance."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The Analytics feature should be simplified."

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

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

"This product is being discontinued from IBM, and I would like to have some kind of upgrade available."

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

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

"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."

"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 price of the solution is expensive."

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

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

"Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."

"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."