We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop 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 solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there are a lot of things that need to improve. I believe they are working on that."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the enterprise data platform."
"CDH has a wide variety of proprietary tools that we use, like Impala. So from that perspective, it's quite useful as opposed to something open-source. We get a lot of value from Cloudera's proprietary tools."
"We're now able to store large volumes of data through Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop. We're able to push large volumes of data to the platform, and that used to be a challenge, especially when storing a terabyte of information. This is the area where Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop improved the organization."
"The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent."
"With a cluster available, you can manage the security layer using the shared SDX - it provides flexibility."
"We had a data warehouse before all the data. We can process a lot more data structures."
"We also really like the Cloudera community. You can have any question and will have your answer within a few hours."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"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."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The procedure for operations could be simplified."
"The Cloudera training has deteriorated significantly."
"The one thing that we struggled with predominately was support. Because it was relatively new, support was always a big issue and I think it's still a bit of an ongoing concern with the team currently managing it."
"It could be faster and more user-friendly."
"The user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"The areas of improvement depend on the scale of the project. For banking customers, security features and an essential budget for commercial licenses would be the top priority. Data regulation could be the most crucial for a project with extensive data or an extra use case."
"The tool's ability to be deployed on a cloud model is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Currently, we are using many other tools such as Spark and Blade Job to improve the performance."
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Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop 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 Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop writes "Good end-to-end security features and we like that it's cloud independent". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, MongoDB, Cassandra and InfluxDB. See our Amazon EMR vs. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop report.
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