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85% willing to recommend
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100% willing to recommend
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Featured Review
ChetanGoyal
Suitable for online deployments with a serverless architecture
The product is very well-designed. It is easy to use, and it is very cost-effective.
Anonymous User
They deliver a canned, scalable solution, but I would like to see the TSA scripts available publicly.
From a consultant point of view, I can step in and immediately know the system. I do not have to spend time understanding the architecture, but can... Read more →
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  • "You don't need to pay for licensing on a yearly or monthly basis, you only pay for what you use, in terms of underlying instances."
  • "The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."
  • "The price of the solution is expensive."
  • "Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."
  • "There is a small fee for the EMR system, but major cost components are the underlying infrastructure resources which we actually use."
  • "There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
  • "Amazon EMR is not very expensive."
  • "The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

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    What do you like most about Amazon EMR?
    Top Answer:Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data.
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    Top Answer:Amazon EMR is not very expensive.
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    Top Answer: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.
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    9th
    out of 18 in Cloud Data Warehouse
    Views
    2,388
    Comparisons
    2,059
    Reviews
    12
    Average Words per Review
    346
    Rating
    7.8
    21st
    out of 34 in Data Warehouse
    Views
    400
    Comparisons
    322
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Elastic MapReduce
    Smart Analytics System, IBM Smart Analytics System
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    Overview
    Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) is a web service that makes it easy to quickly and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Amazon EMR simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective for you to distribute and process vast amounts of your data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.
    The IBM Smart Analytics System provides analytics capabilities on a data warehouse foundation. This integrated and optimized system combines advanced software with IBM server and storage hardware to address a range of analytics workloads and accelerate deployment to help achieve greater efficiency, lower cost and higher performance.
    Sample Customers
    Yelp
    WIdO AOK, EEKA Fashion, SSGC, GS Retail
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company27%
    Media Company18%
    Wholesaler/Distributor18%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Educational Organization6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise82%
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    Amazon EMR is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 20 reviews while IBM Integrated Analytics System is ranked 21st in Data Warehouse. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while IBM Integrated Analytics System 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 IBM Integrated Analytics System writes "They deliver a canned, scalable solution, but I would like to see the TSA scripts available publicly". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Apache Spark, whereas IBM Integrated Analytics System is most compared with IBM Netezza Performance Server and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.

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