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."We are using applications, such as Splunk, Livy, Hadoop, and Spark. We are using all of these applications in Amazon EMR and they're helping us a lot."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"We use it for data science activities."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"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."
"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."
"It is a scalable platform."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
"I would like to see more support for containers such as Docker and OpenShift."
"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."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
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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