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 ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"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."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is that it is easy to install and to work with. It starts with the installation and from there on the management is very simple and centralized."
"In terms of scalability, if you have enough hardware you can scale out. Scalability doesn't have any issues."
"The solution is stable."
"The file system is a valuable feature."
"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that I can use CDH for almost all use cases across all industries, including the financial sector, public sector, private retailers, and so on."
"The solution is reliable and stable, it fits our requirements."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"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 product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."
"Without the big data environment, we cannot store all of this data live. We have billions of records and terabytes of storage to be used. It's not an option actually for us to have a big data environment."
"The tool's ability to be deployed on a cloud model is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The security of this solution could be improved. There should also be a way to basically have a blockchain enabled storage with the HDFS."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"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 would be useful if Cloudera had more tools like SQL Engines that offer the traditional relational database. We have to do a lot of work preparing the data outside Cloudera before getting it into the platform."
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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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