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Actian ParAccel

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Anonymous User
​The stability needs work and the leader node should be removed, but we can deliver results faster.
It has delivered results to our customers faster than we were able to previously.
ChetanGoyal
Suitable for online deployments with a serverless architecture
The product is very well-designed. It is easy to use, and it is very cost-effective.
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  • "You don't need to pay for licensing on a yearly or monthly basis, you only pay for what you use, in terms of underlying instances."
  • "The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."
  • "The price of the solution is expensive."
  • "Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."
  • "There is a small fee for the EMR system, but major cost components are the underlying infrastructure resources which we actually use."
  • "There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
  • "Amazon EMR is not very expensive."
  • "The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

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    Top Answer:Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data.
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    Ranking
    29th
    out of 34 in Data Warehouse
    Views
    50
    Comparisons
    42
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    9th
    out of 18 in Cloud Data Warehouse
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    2,388
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    2,059
    Reviews
    12
    Average Words per Review
    346
    Rating
    7.8
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    Also Known As
    ParAccel
    Amazon Elastic MapReduce
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    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Overview
    ParAccel's analytic platform accelerates and improves organization's decision making and opens the door for innovation, growth, and a sustainable competitive advantage.
    Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) is a web service that makes it easy to quickly and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Amazon EMR simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective for you to distribute and process vast amounts of your data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.
    Sample Customers
    Amazon, The Royal Bank of Scotland, OfficeMax, MicroStrategy
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    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company27%
    Media Company18%
    Wholesaler/Distributor18%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Educational Organization6%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise72%
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    Actian ParAccel is ranked 29th in Data Warehouse while Amazon EMR is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 20 reviews. Actian ParAccel is rated 7.0, while Amazon EMR is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Actian ParAccel writes "​The stability needs work and the leader node should be removed, but we can deliver results faster". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". Actian ParAccel is most compared with Amazon Redshift, whereas Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Apache Spark.

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