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."It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"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."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"It is a scalable platform."
"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."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"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."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"The data platform is pretty neat. The workflow is also really good."
"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"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 problem for us is it starts very slow."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"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."
"I would like to see more support for containers such as Docker and OpenShift."
"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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