Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) vs. Azure Stream Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon EMR
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Amazon EMR is a cloud-native big data platform for processing vast amounts of data quickly, at scale. Using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi (Incubating), and Presto, coupled with the scalability of Amazon EC2 and scalable storage of Amazon S3, EMR gives analytical teams the engines and elasticity to run Petabyte-scale analysis.N/A
Azure Stream Analytics
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers Azure Stream Analytics for IoT and connected devices, supporting real-time analytics and reporting.
$0.11
per hour with a 1 SU minimum
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Standard
$0.11
per hour with a 1 SU minimum
Dedicated
$0.11
per hour with a 36 SU minimum
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon EMRAzure Stream Analytics
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAzure Stream Analytics is priced by the number of Streaming Units provisioned. A Streaming Unit represents the amount of memory and compute allocated to your resources.
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Features
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Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)
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Ratings
Azure Stream Analytics
6.1
1 Ratings
27% below category average
Real-Time Data Analysis00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Low Latency00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Data Enrichment00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)Azure Stream Analytics
Small Businesses

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IBM Streams (discontinued)
IBM Streams (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudera Manager
Cloudera Manager
Score 9.9 out of 10
Confluent
Confluent
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Analytics Engine
IBM Analytics Engine
Score 7.2 out of 10
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 5.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)Azure Stream Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(19 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)Azure Stream Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
We are running it to perform preparation which takes a few hours on EC2 to be running on a spark-based EMR cluster to total the preparation inside minutes rather than a few hours. Ease of utilization and capacity to select from either Hadoop or spark. Processing time diminishes from 5-8 hours to 25-30 minutes compared with the Ec2 occurrence and more in a few cases.
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Microsoft
Data enrichment is effectively done in stream analytics also checking the values with different functionality like windowing and group by clause is effectively working.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • EMR does well in managing the cost as it uses the task node cores to process the data and these instances are cheaper when the data is stored on s3. It is really cost efficient. No need to maintain any libraries to connect to AWS resources.
  • EMR is highly available, secure and easy to launch. No much hassle in launching the cluster (Simple and easy).
  • EMR manages the big data frameworks which the developer need not worry (no need to maintain the memory and framework settings) about the framework settings. It's all setup on launch time. The bootstrapping feature is great.
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Microsoft
  • Routing of data from multiple inputs to multiple output
  • You create your own user define function.
  • Intermediate query is working very effectively.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • It would have been better if packages like HBase and Flume were available with Amazon EMR. This would make the product even more helpful in some cases.
  • Products like Cloudera provide the options to move the whole deployment into a dedicated server and use it at our discretion. This would have been a good option if available with EMR.
  • If EMR gave the option to be used with any choice of cloud provider, it would have helped instead of having to move the data from another cloud service to S3.
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Microsoft
  • Code competency is not that much effective
  • Ml models can't be integrated with stream analytics
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Usability
Amazon AWS
Documentation is quite good and the product is regularly updated, so new features regularly come out. The setup is straightforward enough, especially once you have already established the overall platform infrastructure and the aws-cli APIs are easy enough to use. It would be nice to have some out-of-the-box integrations for checking logs and the Spark UI, rather than relying on know-how and digging through multiple levels to find the informations
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Microsoft
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
I give the overall support for Amazon EMR this rating because while the support technicians are very knowledgeable and always able to help, it sometimes takes a very long time to get in contact with one of the support technicians. So overall the support is pretty good for Amazon EMR.
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Microsoft
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Snowflake is a lot easier to get started with than the other options. Snowflake's data lake building capabilities are far more powerful. Although Amazon EMR isn't our first pick, we've had an excellent experience with EC2 and S3. Because of our current API interfaces, it made more sense for us to continue with Hadoop rather than explore other options.
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Microsoft
Azure Stream Analytics is easy to implement and also to integrate compare to other services like iot analytics
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • It was obviously cheaper and convenient to use as most of our data processing and pipelines are on AWS. It was fast and readily available with a click and that saved a ton of time rather than having to figure out the down time of the cluster if its on premises.
  • It saved time on processing chunks of big data which had to be processed in short period with minimal costs. EMR solved this as the cluster setup time and processing was simple, easy, cheap and fast.
  • It had a negative impact as it was very difficult in submitting the test jobs as it lags a UI to submit spark code snippets.
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Microsoft
  • Very nice roi while using it.
  • Multiple integration is the best functionality
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