We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and SAP HANA 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 initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"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."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"The solution is scalable."
"SAP HANA's interface is pretty user-friendly."
"Using this solution has given us better details for reporting and analytics."
"It is very stable and very innovative. You can integrate many applications with it."
"As I only worked part-time on SAP HANA, I did not have the opportunity to explore the advanced features of the solution. However, I did work with basic features, such as user administration and access controls for the accounting department. The feature that stood out to me the most was the Single Sign-On and user administration, backup, and server management. My experience with SAP HANA was mainly focused on basic server improvements."
"The solution is very stable."
"Integration is the most valuable feature we use SAP HANA for."
"We appreciate that the current, redesigned version of this solution that is much more straightforward for new users, and has been well thought out with industry best practice standards in mind."
"We can save data very easily."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"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."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"I give the scalability of SAP HANA a six out of ten."
"The performance and integration with other products are areas in need of improvement."
"The solution could improve in the handling of backup data and the administration tools."
"I think that the pricing is high and it needs improvement."
"The user interface and CRM need to be more user-friendly."
"SAP HANA is not strong like Oracle when it comes to finance. They are only strong with the logistic business project."
"The solution could improve by having better migration flexibility. For example, it would be helpful if there was a way for customers could check their nonproduction and production deployments."
"The solution needs to work on its performance and make it faster."
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 1st in Embedded Database with 79 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while SAP HANA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Oracle Exadata, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Apache Spark. See our Amazon EMR vs. SAP HANA report.
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