We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop 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."Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"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."
"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."
"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 project management is very streamlined."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"The search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"With a cluster available, you can manage the security layer using the shared SDX - it provides flexibility."
"The solution is reliable and stable, it fits our requirements."
"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."
"The solution is stable."
"In terms of scalability, if you have enough hardware you can scale out. Scalability doesn't have any issues."
"The most valuable feature is Kubernetes."
"The most valuable feature is that I can use CDH for almost all use cases across all industries, including the financial sector, public sector, private retailers, and so on."
"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."
"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 most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"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."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop has a limited feature list and a lot of costs involved."
"The price of this solution could be lowered."
"The one thing that we struggled with predominately was support. Because it was relatively new, support was always a big issue and I think it's still a bit of an ongoing concern with the team currently managing it."
"The initial setup of Cloudera is difficult."
"The Cloudera training has deteriorated significantly."
"The user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"The governance aspect of the solution should be improved."
"The areas of improvement depend on the scale of the project. For banking customers, security features and an essential budget for commercial licenses would be the top priority. Data regulation could be the most crucial for a project with extensive data or an extra use case."
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Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop 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 Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop writes "Good end-to-end security features and we like that it's cloud independent". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, Cassandra, ScyllaDB and MongoDB. See our Amazon EMR vs. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop report.
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