We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and SAP HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Hadoop solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"The solution is scalable."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The feature I found most valuable in SAP HANA is modeling. I also like that the solution has good integration and you can integrate it with any system, even third-party systems."
"We are using the solution for the DW system. The primary function of the solution is for the database in memory."
"The solution offers advanced features that the company was struggling to implement."
"The most valuable feature of SAP HANA is the modeling of the databases."
"The memory is the solution's most valuable feature. It's the main feature of HANA. Others are still the regular IT databases that are on storage and are therefore much slower than HANA. The solution is quite fast."
"What I like most are the dashboards and pervasive analytics."
"I like the integration process. Also, the data is trusted by our management, and we use the data from transactions for analysis."
"SAP HANA is a stable solution."
"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"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."
"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 dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"While new users to this solution have the benefit of the new design, existing ERP users may experience issues with migrating legacy data. We would like to see development of ready-made tools that allow for easy mapping when upgrading."
"Needs graphical programming without coding."
"The openness of the system could be more developed. The solution should go into the cloud. The cloud mechanism should be more invested."
"The SAP HANA interface has room for improvement because it takes more work to manage than the Microsoft SQL Server interface."
"In terms of improvement, the speed is not as good as we thought it would be. That is why we are trying different solutions that will be built with different technologies."
"The initial setup was very, very complex, tedious, and costly and required someone with great expertise to complete it."
"The challenge right now is all databases are on S4 HANA architecture. You're running it for HANA, but not all the functionalities are available. If they can speed up getting all the databases on S4 HANA that would help."
"I would like more technical documentation. I would like it to be easier to find online help or have a better launch-based service. SAP has a lot of functions, so we need more best practices and more detailed documentation on industry solutions. For example, it would be good to have documentation on why a certain process needs to be set up and which kinds of configurations need to be set up."
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 1st in Embedded Database with 79 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while SAP HANA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". Amazon EMR is most compared with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Azure Data Factory and Oracle Exadata, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Apache Spark. See our Amazon EMR vs. SAP HANA report.
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