We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Snowflake 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."Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The solution is scalable."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The solution is very stable."
"Snowflake is a database, and it is very good and useful. The most interesting part is that memory management is very good in Snowflake. For a business intelligence project, SQL Server is taking a lot of time for reporting services. There are a lot of calculations, and the reporting time is shown as two minutes, whereas Snowflake is taking just two seconds for the same reporting services."
"It requires no maintenance on our part. They handle all that. The speed is phenomenal. The pricing isn't really anything more than what you would be paying for a SQL server license or another tool to execute the same thing. We have zero maintenance on our side to do anything and the speed at which it performs queries and loads the data is amazing. It handles unstructured data extremely well, too. So, if the data is in a JSON array or an XML, it handles that super well."
"It is a very easy-to-use solution. It is user-friendly, and its setup time is very less."
"Data Science capabilities are the most valuable feature."
"It's ultra-fast at handling queries, which is what we find very convenient."
"Snowflake is scalable both in terms of the amount of data that you can run through it and the number of users that engage with it."
"The querying speed is fast."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"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 initial setup was time-consuming."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"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."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The data science functionality could be improved in terms of the machine learning process."
"Availability is a problem."
"The solution could improve the user interface and add functionality to the system."
"The user interface continues to be an issue, especially when we need to get data out of Snowflake. It's very easy to get data in, but it's not too easy to get it out or extract it."
"Room for improvement would be writebacks. It doesn't support extensively writing back to the database, and it doesn't support web applications effectively. Ultimately, it's a database call, so if we are building web applications using Snowflake, it isn't that effective because there is some turnaround time from the database."
"We would like to see more security including more masking and more encryption at the database level."
"Their UiPath, the workspace area, needs some work."
"More data governance and access control features would be a welcome addition."
Amazon EMR is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 20 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Warehouse with 94 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Snowflake 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 Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". Amazon EMR is most compared with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and SAP BW4HANA. See our Amazon EMR vs. Snowflake report.
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