We performed a comparison between AWS Lake Formation 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."The most important advantage in using AWS Lake Formation is its ability to connect the data lake to the other technologies in AWS. This is what I advise my clients."
"We use AWS Lake Formation typically for the data warehouse."
"It is seamlessly integrated within the AWS ecosystem, making it straightforward to manage access patterns for AWS-native services."
"The solution is quite good at handling analytics. It's done a good job at helping us centralize them."
"The solution has many features that are applicable to events such as audits."
"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."
"It's super easy to deploy and it also supports different languages and analytics."
"Scalability is simple because it's an MPP database. If you need more processing power or you need more storage, you just add a few more nodes in the cluster. It works on common commodity hardware. You can use any type of server. You don't need to have proprietary hardware. It's fairly flexible."
"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."
"Pivotal Greenplum's shared-nothing architecture."
"The loading speed is very good."
"The most valuable feature for us is horizontal scaling."
"It works very well with large database queries."
"For the end-users, it's not as user-friendly as it could be."
"It falls short when it comes to more granular access control, such as cell-level or row-level entitlements which is a significant drawback for organizations that require precise control over who can access specific rows of data."
"The solution could make improvements around orchestration and doing some automation stuff on AWS front automation. It would be useful if we could use automation to build images and use hardened images which are CIS compliant."
"AWS Lake Formation's pricing could be cheaper."
"In our experience what could be improved are not the support, performance or monitoring, but at a managerial level, the very expensive professional services of AWS. This could be an area of improvement for them. It's too expensive to acquire their support."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and the out-of-the-box configuration requires optimization."
"We would like to see Greenplum maintain a closer relationship with and parity to features implemented in PostgreSQL."
"Lacks sufficient inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases."
"It will be very useful if we could communicate with other database types from Greenplum (using a database link)."
"Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient."
"They should add more analytics. Their documentation could also be improved so that I don't have to bother my co-workers and tech support so often."
"VMware Tanzu Greenplum needs improvement in the memory area and improved methods for quick access to the disc. So, one of the quick goals of Greenplum must work on enhancing access to the disc by adding hints in the database."
"They need to enhance integration with other Big Data products... to integrate with Big Data platforms, and to open a bi-directional connection between Greenplum and Big Data."
AWS Lake Formation is ranked 12th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 5 reviews while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. AWS Lake Formation is rated 7.6, while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AWS Lake Formation writes "Strategically aligning data management in a multi-cloud environment with significant reporting challenges". 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". AWS Lake Formation is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and BigQuery, whereas VMware Tanzu Greenplum is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Vertica, Oracle Database Appliance, Apache Hadoop and Snowflake. See our AWS Lake Formation vs. VMware Tanzu Greenplum report.
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