We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and VMware Tanzu Greenplum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"One of the valuable features about this solution is that it's managed services, so it's pretty stable, and scalable as much as you wish. It has all the necessary distributions. With some additional work, it's also possible to change to a Spark version with the latest version of EMR. It also has Hudi, so we are leveraging Apache Hudi on EMR for change data capture, so then it comes out-of-the-box in EMR."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"We chose Greenplum because of the architecture in terms of clustering databases and being able to have, or at least utilize the resources that are sitting on a database."
"With VMware Tanzu Greenplum, one can make a huge database table and analyze the queries by adding in the SQL command. Some hint or command for the query goes over the multi-parallel execution."
"It works very well with large database queries."
"The most valuable feature for us is horizontal scaling."
"Scalable (Massive) Parallel Processing (MPP) – The ability to bring to bear large amounts of compute against large data sets with Greenplum and the EMC DCA has proven itself to be very effective."
"A very good, open-source platform."
"Very fast for query processing."
"The parallel load features mean that Greenplum is capable of high-volume data loading in parallel to all of the cluster segments, which is really valuable."
"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."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"Some integration with other platforms like design tools, and ETL development tools, that will enable some advanced functionality, like fully down processing, etc."
"they need to interact more with customers. They need to explain the features, especially when there are new releases of Greenplum. I know just from information I've found that it has other features, it can be used to for analytics, for integration with Big Data, Hadoop. They need to focus on this part with the customer."
"The installation is difficult and should be made easier."
"If you have a user consuming a huge load of resources, it takes down the entire system."
"I saw some limitation with respect to the column store, and removing this would be an improvement."
"Implementation takes a long time."
"Maintenance is time-consuming."
"Initial setup is a little complex. It took around two weeks to deploy."
Amazon EMR is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 20 reviews while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Greenplum writes "Very efficient at large scale analytics; lacks inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Apache Spark, whereas VMware Tanzu Greenplum is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Vertica, Oracle Database Appliance, Apache Hadoop and Snowflake. See our Amazon EMR vs. VMware Tanzu Greenplum report.
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