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."The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"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."
"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."
"It is a scalable platform."
"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."
"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"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."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"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."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."
"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"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 Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Azure Data Factory and SAP HANA, 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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