We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, Cloudera, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Hadoop."Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"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."
"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 allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"InfoSphere Streams was the one core product from the platform in which we were using. We were building a real-time response system and we built it on InfoSphere Streams."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"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."
"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 no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"The UI was not interactive: Responses used to be very slow and hang up at times."
Earn 20 points
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Hadoop. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] writes "The BIQSQL implementation is fully SQL ANSI compliant, but I have found a lot of issues in Fluid Query". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Apache Spark, whereas IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] is most compared with .
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