We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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."The solution is scalable."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"We are using applications, such as Splunk, Livy, Hadoop, and Spark. We are using all of these applications in Amazon EMR and they're helping us a lot."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"The solution's scalability is very, very good. It's one of the most important aspects for us."
"The architecture, including compute and storage, is good."
"The platform has multiple valuable use cases. They include performance, compatibility, flexibility, and cost."
"The best thing about it is that it has integration at multiple places. It can talk to more than 90 types of data sources, which is one good thing about it."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"Its scalability and ease of use are valuable. It is fairly simple for a tool that's that powerful. If you have a background in Microsoft SQL Server, it is a very easy-to-transition path."
"The ability to scale out services on-demand and scale them down when they are not required is most valuable. You are in control of your expenditures, and you are also in control of the horsepower that you need. That's a major advantage."
"The product works well with other Azure products."
"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 legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"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."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"Synapse Analytics' performance slows down if you don't get your distribution right because it gets queued and goes into a single node."
"I am very sure that there are areas in need of improvement, but I can't recall what they are off the top of my head."
"I am pretty sure that there are areas that need improvement but I just can think of them off the top of my head."
"The only concern for us is the cost part. When it comes to the implementation and the support and maintenance, we see high-cost implications."
"The filing can be improved."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"Comes with a pretty steep learning curve."
"One area that could be improved is the schema management."
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Amazon EMR is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 20 reviews while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 85 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, whereas Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Exadata. See our Amazon EMR vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics report.
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