We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift 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."Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"The solution is scalable."
"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 initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Redshift COPY command, because much of my work involved helping customers migrate large amounts of data into Redshift."
"Redshift's versioning and data security are the two most critical features. When migrating into the cloud, it's vital to secure the data. The encryption and security are there."
"You can copy JSON to the column and have it analyzed using simple functions."
"Has a very user-friendly SQL editor and it's very easy to use the connectors."
"The stability of Amazon Redshift is good."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability, as it grows according to our needs."
"Redshift allows you to transform different data formats and consolidate them into one Redshift cluster. This means you can transform various siloed data sources like Excel files and CSV files into Redshift."
"I found the Amazon Redshift computing services easy. I found the computing instances the most incredible in the solution."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"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 dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"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."
"What would make Amazon Redshift better is improvising on the pricing structure. For example, Acronis provides backups in cybersecurity, yet the pricing is a bit lesser than Amazon Redshift."
"If you require a highly scalable solution, I would not recommend Amazon Redshift."
"Redshift's GUI could be more user-friendly. It's easier to perform queries and all that stuff in Azure Synapse Analytics."
"It would be nice if we could turn off an instance. However, it would retain the instance in history, thus allowing us to restart without beginning from scratch."
"It lacks a few features which can be very useful, such as stored procedures"
"Compatibility with other products, for example, Microsoft and Google, is a bit difficult because each one of them wants to be isolated with their solutions."
"Amazon Redshift does not have the capability to dynamically increase the VM file."
"The product must become a bit more serverless."
Amazon EMR is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 20 reviews while Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 61 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Amazon Redshift 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 Amazon Redshift writes "Provides one place where we can store data, and allows us to easily connect to other services with AWS". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Apache Spark and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Amazon Redshift is most compared with Teradata, Vertica, Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and SAP BW4HANA. See our Amazon EMR vs. Amazon Redshift report.
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