We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop 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 project management is very streamlined."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"The tool can be deployed using different container technologies, which makes it very scalable."
"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."
"It is helpful to gather and process data."
"It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products."
"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."
"The solution is reliable and stable, it fits our requirements."
"We also really like the Cloudera community. You can have any question and will have your answer within a few hours."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the enterprise data platform."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"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 initial setup was time-consuming."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"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 dashboard could be improved."
"I would like to see an improvement in how the solution helps me to handle the whole cluster."
"It could be faster and more user-friendly."
"The tool's ability to be deployed on a cloud model is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The procedure for operations could be simplified."
"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there is a lot of things that need to improve."
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Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop 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 Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop writes "Good end-to-end security features and we like that it's cloud independent". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, MongoDB, Cassandra and InfluxDB. See our Amazon EMR vs. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop report.
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