We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and IBM Analytics Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, Cloudera, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Hadoop."This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"The solution is scalable."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"The best part was that we could make minor changes in the way we were bifurcating the data, even at a very small scale. The accuracy of conversion was also very high."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"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."
"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."
"One area for improvement would be the initial setup stage, which took longer than expected."
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while IBM Analytics Engine is ranked 8th in Hadoop with 1 review. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while IBM Analytics Engine is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Analytics Engine writes " Good solution for small and medium-sized businesses and highly stable". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Apache Spark, whereas IBM Analytics Engine is most compared with HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
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