We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, and Hortonworks Data Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, Cloudera, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Hadoop."The solution is scalable."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"One of the valuable features about this solution is that it's managed services, so it's pretty stable, and scalable as much as you wish. It has all the necessary distributions. With some additional work, it's also possible to change to a Spark version with the latest version of EMR. It also has Hudi, so we are leveraging Apache Hudi on EMR for change data capture, so then it comes out-of-the-box in EMR."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"The solution is reliable and stable, it fits our requirements."
"The product is completely secure."
"We're now able to store large volumes of data through Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop. We're able to push large volumes of data to the platform, and that used to be a challenge, especially when storing a terabyte of information. This is the area where Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop improved the organization."
"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."
"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."
"It is helpful to gather and process data."
"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there are a lot of things that need to improve. I believe they are working on that."
"The search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"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."
"We use it for data science activities."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"The Hortonworks solution is so stable. It is working as a production system, without any error, without any downtime. If I have downtime, it is mostly caused by the hardware of the computers."
"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"The security of this solution could be improved. There should also be a way to basically have a blockchain enabled storage with the HDFS."
"Cloudera's support is extremely bad and cannot be relied on."
"Without the big data environment, we cannot store all of this data live. We have billions of records and terabytes of storage to be used. It's not an option actually for us to have a big data environment."
"The price of this solution could be lowered."
"The governance aspect of the solution should be improved."
"The initial setup of Cloudera is difficult."
"While the deployed product is generally functional, there are instances where it presents difficulties."
"The one thing that we struggled with predominately was support. Because it was relatively new, support was always a big issue and I think it's still a bit of an ongoing concern with the team currently managing it."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
"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."
"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
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