We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Hortonworks Data Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Hadoop solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is scalable."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."
"It is a scalable platform."
"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"We use it for data science activities."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"The data platform is pretty neat. The workflow is also really good."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"As people are shifting from legacy solutions to other technologies, Amazon EMR needs to add more features that give more flexibility in managing user data."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"We don't have much control. If we have multiple users, if they want to scale up, the cost will go and increase and we don't know how we can restrict that price part."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
"Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"I would like to see more support for containers such as Docker and OpenShift."
"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while Hortonworks Data Platform is ranked 6th in Hadoop with 25 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Hortonworks Data Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hortonworks Data Platform writes "Good for secure containerization, and governance capabilities ". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and AWS Lake Formation, whereas Hortonworks Data Platform is most compared with Apache Spark, Cloudera DataFlow and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric. See our Amazon EMR vs. Hortonworks Data Platform report.
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