We performed a comparison between Hortonworks Data Platform, IBM Spectrum Computing, and SaltStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"We use it for data science activities."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"Now, using this solution, it is much cheaper to have all of the data available for searching, not in real-time, but whenever there is a pending request."
"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."
"It is a scalable platform."
"Easy to operate and use."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."
"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"We have not been able to use deduplication."
"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."
"Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."
"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"It is difficult to set up."
"Web UI."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."