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."When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The solution is scalable."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"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 solution is pretty simple to set up."
"It's user-friendly so long as you use it frequently."
"We can save data very easily."
"We have found the solution to be customizable and it is beneficial it comes as a bundled package. Additionally, it is user-friendly."
"We appreciate that the current, redesigned version of this solution that is much more straightforward for new users, and has been well thought out with industry best practice standards in mind."
"It is very stable and very innovative. You can integrate many applications with it."
"Its in-memory capabilities are good, which is why many companies still use it."
"In comparison with other DMS solutions, it offers good performance."
"What's most valuable in SAP HANA is that it covers the business process systems of my company. The solution also helps because it makes almost everything automated. Another valuable feature of SAP HANA is that it can be integrated with third parties and other enhancements needed by the company."
"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."
"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."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"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."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"Unlike other databases, it lacks management features that legacy databases like Oracle or SQL servers have. They need to make the solution easier to manage and offer tools that make management more effective. A lot of things you have on traditional databases you have to develop into HANA."
"Needs graphical programming without coding."
"In terms of improvement, the speed is not as good as we thought it would be. That is why we are trying different solutions that will be built with different technologies."
"When you do a report on a non-SAP platform, you face some compatibility problems."
"I would have rated the solution higher if this version was not missing some key features the newer version has."
"The initial setup of SAP HANA is complex. We did the implementation of one site, and a global deployment will take another three to four years."
"There's an issue in the partition. When you record more than two million records, partitioning does not work well. In Oracle it's easy. SAP must resolve this issue in order to be more competitive with Oracle."
"In a future release, SAP HANA should add a module for taxation, such as income tax and withholding tax."
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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