We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Hortonworks Data Platform 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's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"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 project management is very streamlined."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"The Hortonworks solution is so stable. It is working as a production system, without any error, without any downtime. If I have downtime, it is mostly caused by the hardware of the computers."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"Now, using this solution, it is much cheaper to have all of the data available for searching, not in real-time, but whenever there is a pending request."
"The data platform is pretty neat. The workflow is also really good."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"It is a scalable platform."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"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."
"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"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."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
"Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"I would like to see more support for containers such as Docker and OpenShift."
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while Hortonworks Data Platform is ranked 6th in Hadoop with 25 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Hortonworks Data Platform 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 Hortonworks Data Platform writes "Good for secure containerization, and governance capabilities ". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and AWS Lake Formation, whereas Hortonworks Data Platform is most compared with Apache Spark, Cloudera DataFlow and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric. See our Amazon EMR vs. Hortonworks Data Platform report.
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