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."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 solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"It is a scalable platform."
"The data platform is pretty neat. The workflow is also really good."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"We use it for data science activities."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."
"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."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"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 most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"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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