"The GUI interface is nice and easy to use."
"The team members don't have to learn a new language and can implement complex tasks very easily using only SQL."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution is easy to understand if you have basic knowledge of SQL commands."
"Spark SQL's efficiency in managing distributed data and its simplicity in expressing complex operations make it an essential part of our data pipeline."
"This solution is useful to leverage within a distributed ecosystem."
"The stability was fine. It behaved as expected."
"Data validation and ease of use are the most valuable features."
"The speed of getting data."
"There was an issue with the incremental aggregation not working as indicated."
"The product was not able to meet our 10 second refresh requirements."
"The organization of the icons is not saved across users."
"It takes a bit of time to get used to using this solution versus Pandas as it has a steep learning curve."
"This solution could be improved by adding monitoring and integration for the EMR."
"It would be useful if Spark SQL integrated with some data visualization tools."
"It would be beneficial for aggregate functions to include a code block or toolbox that explains its calculations or supported conditional statements."
"There should be better integration with other solutions."
"I've experienced some incompatibilities when using the Delta Lake format."
"SparkUI could have more advanced versions of the performance and the queries and all."
"Being a new user, I am not able to find out how to partition it correctly. I probably need more information or knowledge. In other database solutions, you can easily optimize all partitions. I haven't found a quicker way to do that in Spark SQL. It would be good if you don't need a partition here, and the system automatically partitions in the best way. They can also provide more educational resources for new users."
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AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is ranked 5th in Data Virtualization while Spark SQL is ranked 4th in Hadoop with 14 reviews. AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is rated 5.0, while Spark SQL is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) writes "The GUI interface is nice and easy to use, but the organization of the icons is not saved across users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spark SQL writes "Offers the flexibility to handle large-scale data processing". AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is most compared with Denodo, Dremio, ThoughtSpot, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Alation Data Catalog, whereas Spark SQL is most compared with Apache Spark, IBM Db2 Big SQL, SAP HANA, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and Netezza Analytics.
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