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Our users have ranked these solutions according to their valuable features, and discuss which features they like most and why.
You can read user reviews for the Top 5 Compute Service Tools to help you decide which solution is best for you.
Users compare and give feedback on Compute Service Tools that they’ve used — based on product reviews, ratings, and comparisons.
#1 AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is ranked as PeerSpot’s #1 Compute Service Tool. Our users give AWS Lambda an average rating of 8 out of 10.
One PeerSpot user, a Cloud Engineer at a retailer, says of the solution, “It's a brilliant Amazon service that provides for many use cases. It's quite flexible.” He adds, “All you have to do is configure a Lambda function and then deploy your code directly there and then you can invoke it in different ways.” He also mentions, “It is easy to configure.The initial setup is very straightforward.”
Ariful M., a Consulting Practice Partner at Wipro Ltd., mentions, ”The main features of this solution are the ability to integrate multiple AWS applications or external applications very quickly and organize all of them by leveraging server-less computing power of AWS.”
An AWS Developer at a computer software company states, "AWS Lambda is interlinked with CloudWatch. When we have any errors we can directly go there and check the CloudWatch logs. Additionally, we can run it very fast and we can increase the RAM size and other components.”
#2 Apache Spark
Apache Spark is ranked as PeerSpot’s #2 Compute Service Tool. Our users give Apache Spark an average rating of 8 out of 10.
A Manager of Data Science Competency at a tech services company notes, "One of the key features is that Apache Spark is a distributed computing framework. You can have multiple slaves and distribute the workload between them.”
Amit M., Associate Director at PwC, says of the solution, "One of Apache Spark's most valuable features is that it supports in-memory processing, the execution of jobs compared to traditional tools is very fast.” He adds,”If Apache Spark is in the cloud, setting it up will require only minutes.”
A Senior Solutions Architect at a retailer notes of Apache Spark, “I like that it can handle multiple tasks parallely. I also like the automation feature. JavaScript also helps with the parallel streaming of the library.”
#3 Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 is ranked as PeerSpot’s #3 Compute Service Tool. Our users give Amazon EC2 an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Srinivasan R., Chief Technology Officer at Ongil Private Limited, mentions of the solution, “The features I find valuable are EC2, the admin control, and the ability to add the elastic IPs and then attach storage.” He adds, “Also, the Admin Control, Cost Explorer, and the billing features are valuable. That gives me the ability to understand the costs.”
Vinay K, a Lead Data Engineer at Seven Lakes Technologie, says of the product, “The most valuable features are the scalability options, low maintenance, and options to upgrade. AWS support is also pretty good. The generation upgrade is pretty simple and standardized.”
Ashok Y., a Solutions Architect at a financial services firm, states, “I like the AMI-related features. A very good feature of this solution is the customizable AMI.” He adds, “The encryption technologies are also very good.”
#4 Zadara
Zadara is ranked as PeerSpot’s #4 Compute Service Tool. Our users give Zadara an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Kirill K., an IT Technical Architect at AVALIS, mentions, "The most valuable feature of Zadara is its ease of use and safety. Overall the solution is a complete package, it has all the features needed."
A Chief IT Architect at a tech services company says of the solution, “Zadara is all-flash so it has a very high IOPS. The speed of the box and what you call the IOPS, the IO operations per second, works very well. The processing is much faster with this product.” He adds, “Technical support has been great. The scalability is very good.”
Mauro R., CEO at Momit Srl., writes, “Zadara Storage Cloud having 24/7 management saves me support and engineering costs because the storage and computing are managed by a third-party.”
#5 Apache NiFi
Apache NiFi is ranked as PeerSpot’s #5 Compute Service Tool. Our users give Apache NiFi an average rating of 8 out of 10.
A Senior Solutions Architect at a comms service provider writes, “It is really good when it comes to dealing with pipelines. Visually, this is a good product.”
Reza G., Senior Technology Architect at a tech services company, says of the solution, “It's very handy. I like building the independent flow. It's an automated flow, where you can build a flow from source to destination, then do the transformation in between.”
Bruno S., Senior Principal at Timestamp, writes that "The most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation. It is very visual. We can orchestrate all of the data flow right on the user interface.” He adds, “We can connect each processor that we design and we can make it quicker with faster development.”
