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."The project management is very streamlined."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of 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."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The solution is scalable."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"The most valuable feature of SAP HANA is the modeling of the databases."
"SAP HANA is one of the best databases known for its performance...The new version of the solution is stable."
"SAP HANA is a stable solution."
"It's user-friendly so long as you use it frequently."
"If you want to scale with new processes and new reports, that's fairly easy."
"The in-memory computing and the efficient response time are very good features."
"We can save data very easily."
"The UX experience is very good."
"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."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"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."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"SAP HANA is not perfect and they could improve by having more options and more integration."
"The solution's development platform should be more flexible and scalable to adapt to other solutions."
"In my limited experience using SAP, the process of granting access to different modules is difficult. Specifically, the requirement to assign roles and key codes to users rather than being able to assign them individually made the process more complex. It would be beneficial if there was a way to assign key codes separately, rather than having to create multiple roles. This would make managing access easier."
"The solution is very expensive for us."
"It's a complex initial setup."
"Needs graphical programming without coding."
"High availability and disaster recovery are very poor in HANA."
"They can improve their technology for the CRM subsystem. There are other products that are better and more effective for the CRM subsystem. Its price could be better. It is expensive."
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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