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."Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"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."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"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."
"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"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 version control of the software is also an issue."
"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."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases."
"Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"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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