We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and SAP HANA 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."It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"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."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"SAP HANA is one of the best databases known for its performance...The new version of the solution is stable."
"It's easy to use, and the Hana Studio is pretty good."
"The solution is very stable."
"In comparison with other DMS solutions, it offers good performance."
"SAP HANA is a stable solution."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"Anyone currently using SAP will be transitioning to HANA."
"The solution offers advanced features that the company was struggling to implement."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"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 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."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"SAP HANA isn't user-friendly, and it's very hard to train newcomers to use it."
"Needs graphical programming without coding."
"Technical support should be more customer-friendly."
"SAP HANA's long run time to extract data could be improved upon."
"If the developers were to enhance or improve the application logic while processing the transactions, that would be great."
"Technical support could be better."
"The solution is very expensive for us."
"It's a complex initial setup."
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 1st in Embedded Database with 81 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while SAP HANA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Oracle Exadata, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Apache Spark. See our Amazon EMR vs. SAP HANA report.
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