We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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."It has a variety of options and support systems."
"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."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"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."
"One central workspace to manage everything for your data warehouse including visualization."
"The solution's best feature is its predictive analytics."
"Technical support is okay in terms of the help they provide."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are how easy and quick it is to set up the linked services."
"The product is very user friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the incremental load because we do not need to refresh the entire data on a daily basis."
"The most valuable aspect of this Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is its consolidation of technical support from Microsoft, and its ability to securely host large quantities of data within the cloud environment. The overall ability to manage and maintain Big Data within the cloud provides a heightened level of efficiency, reliability, and support from Microsoft. This results in a superior user experience and an increased level of value for the end user."
"They are available on the Cloud, and the platform is very intuitive."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"They should provide a less expensive version with a smaller setup for small businesses. Currently, its price is quite high for entry-level or small businesses. In terms of integration, new connectors are always welcomed."
"I would like to see them provide the ingestion of images."
"Scaling this solution up and down is not quick and easy. This could be improved. The pricing of this solution could also be improved."
"The need to improve a little bit in terms of user-friendliness."
"Synapse Analytics is generally stable, but its performance can be slow when performing very large datasets."
"They should automate some of the features. There are some things, such as the creation of external tables, that you have to do manually. They should be automated."
"From an infrastructure standpoint, I believe it can be more secure in terms of availability."
"I would like to see version control implemented into the data warehouse."
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Amazon EMR is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 20 reviews while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 86 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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 Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, whereas Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Microsoft Analytics Platform System. See our Amazon EMR vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics report.
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