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."The initial setup is straightforward."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"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 solution is pretty simple to set up."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"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."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"The speed is great and the architecture is excellent."
"It's quite quick for querying, even with large datasets, and it's scalable. It's also flexible to use, so it's easy to update and get data quickly without wasting time."
"The most valuable aspect of this Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is its consolidation of technical support from Microsoft, and its ability to securely host large quantities of data within the cloud environment. The overall ability to manage and maintain Big Data within the cloud provides a heightened level of efficiency, reliability, and support from Microsoft. This results in a superior user experience and an increased level of value for the end user."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are the user experience because it is easy to make analyses, load different databases, and different resources. Our end users can do the analysis by themselves without IT supervising. This is a great aspect of the solution, it's better for our environment."
"The pricing seems to be quite fair."
"Its seamless integration with Azure services is most valuable. If somebody wants to use all Azure services, it is the best solution."
"The solution offers strong scalability opportunities."
"The most valuable feature is the level of processing power, and being able to complete tasks in parallel."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"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 legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"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 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."
"The initial setup has a bit of a learning curve."
"With respect to what needs to be improved, concurrent connectivity has some limitations."
"Adding more transformations and plugins to the solution is very important."
"One area that could be improved is the schema management."
"The configuration for things like high-availability could be more user-friendly for non-technical users."
"In the future, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve the performance, there are other solutions that are better, such as Databricks."
"We'd, of course, always like to pay less for the service if we can."
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Amazon EMR is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 20 reviews while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 86 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8. 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 Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, whereas Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Dremio. See our Amazon EMR vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics report.
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