User Reviews of Apache Spark & AWS Batch

Updated March 2024

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Apache Spark review

Ilya Afanasyev
Ilya Afanasyev
Senior Software Development Engineer at Yahoo!
Reliable, able to expand, and handle large amounts of data well
We use batch processing. It works well with our formats and file versions. There's a lot of functionality. In our pipeline each hour, we make a copy of data from MongoDB, of the changes from MongoDB to some specific file. Each time pipeline copied all of the data, it would do it each time without changes to all of the tables. Tables have a...
AWS Batch review

Larry Singh
Larry Singh
Head of Bioinformatics at Paratus Sciences
User-friendly, good customization and offers exceptional scalability, allowing...
The main drawback to using AWS Batch would be the cost. It will be more expensive in some cases than using an HPC. It's more amenable to cases where you have spot requirements. So, for instance, you don't exactly know how much compute resources you'll need and when you'll need them. So it's much better for that flexibility. But if you're...

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