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."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"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."
"What I like best about SAP HANA is that it's faster than Microsoft SQL Server."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"This is a feature-rich product and I like all of them."
"It is very flexible to integrate with SaaS components."
"The solution is marvelous because it controls everything including workflow and that makes our company more productive."
"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."
"SAP HANA's most valuable features are monitoring, reporting, and price and stock control."
"SAP HANA's best features are its programmability and extensibility - you can size and shape the software however you need."
"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 initial setup was time-consuming."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"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 user interface and CRM need to be more user-friendly."
"The JDBC connectors are very slow."
"The user experience should be better. Its user interface is not good. I also don't like the transition concept."
"More standards would help in the future."
"The performance and integration with other products are areas in need of improvement."
"The initial setup of SAP HANA is complex. We did the implementation of one site, and a global deployment will take another three to four years."
"SAP HANA isn't user-friendly, and it's very hard to train newcomers to use it."
"When we are using SAP HANA we have some difficulty with the customization. We would like to be able to add and make customized menus."
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 1st in Embedded Database with 81 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 Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Apache Spark, 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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