We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) 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 project management is very streamlined."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The GUI interface is nice and easy to use."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"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."
"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."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"Amazon EMR can improve by adding some features, such as megastore services and HiveServer2. Additionally, the user interface could be better, similar to what Apache service provides, cross-platform services."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"The product was not able to meet our 10 second refresh requirements."
"The organization of the icons is not saved across users."
"There was an issue with the incremental aggregation not working as indicated."
Earn 20 points
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is ranked 5th in Data Virtualization. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) writes "The GUI interface is nice and easy to use, but the organization of the icons is not saved across users". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Apache Spark, whereas AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is most compared with Denodo, Dremio, ThoughtSpot, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Alation Data Catalog.
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