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."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."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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 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."
"With a cluster available, you can manage the security layer using the shared SDX - it provides flexibility."
"The product is completely secure."
"The tool can be deployed using different container technologies, which makes it very scalable."
"The product as a whole is good."
"In terms of scalability, if you have enough hardware you can scale out. Scalability doesn't have any issues."
"The main advantage is the storage is less expensive."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"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 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."
"We don't have much control. If we have multiple users, if they want to scale up, the cost will go and increase and we don't know how we can restrict that price part."
"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."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there is a lot of things that need to improve."
"While the deployed product is generally functional, there are instances where it presents difficulties."
"The governance aspect of the solution should be improved."
"It could be faster and more user-friendly."
"The Cloudera training has deteriorated significantly."
"The security of this solution could be improved. There should also be a way to basically have a blockchain enabled storage with the HDFS."
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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 ScyllaDB. See our Amazon EMR vs. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop report.
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