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    Amazon EMR

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    Cloudera Data Hub

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACloudera Data Hub is a cloud-native compute orchestration and analytics provisioning service within the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) that deploys distributed Big Data Processing and Distribution Systems across multi-cloud environments. The service automates the provisioning, lifecycle management, and scaling of tailored multi-node workload clusters powered by Cloudera Runtime, executing distributed batch processing, interactive Structured Query Language (SQL) analytics, real-time data streaming,…N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon EMRCloudera Data Hub
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon EMR
    The alternatives to EMR are mainly hadoop distributions owned by the 3 companies above. I have not used the other distributions so it is difficult to comment, but the general tradeoff is, at the cost of a longer setup time and more infra management, you get more flexible …
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    Chose Amazon EMR
    EMR provides dynamic cluster size, lots of documentation, and integration with other Amazon Web Services which are some of the things that Cloudera distribution for Hadoop lacked. Some products are hard to learn but EMR was much easier and helped save time spent on trying to …
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    Cloudera
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cloudera Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Cloudera Manager (no longer available standalone)
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cloudera Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Hadoop
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EMRCloudera Data Hub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon EMRCloudera Data Hub
    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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    Cloudera
    Cloudera excels at seamless migrations and upgrades.



    Cloudera supports self-healing and data center
    replacement of failed cloud instances while maintaining the state.



    Cloudera is essential to increase or decrease
    capacity through the user interface or API.



    Cloudera is great at simplifying big data analytics
    by providing the technology and tools needed to gain insights from IoT and
    connected devices to help monitor and condition our assets.



    Cloudera's cybersecurity platform option offers
    stronger anomaly detection, visibility, and prevention, as well as faster
    behavioral analysis.



    Cloudera is beneficial for enabling and utilizing
    the platform's machine learning and ad-hoc queries while securely storing,
    retrieving, and analyzing any volume of data at scale.
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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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    Cloudera
    • Excellent management capabilities via Cloudera Manager.
    • Open source and does not restrict our data to be bound by a proprietary format.
    • Offers excellent support for data governance and auditing.
    • Has all the components that would help us build a data hub.
    • Excellent platform support offered by Cloudera.
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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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    Cloudera
    • Not fully Open Source, couple of components of the distributions are privately owned, meaning with public contributions are not welcome
    • Improvements to Cloudera manager can only be recommended. its very hard to get it done once recommended as the full control is with them.
    • Should make components more aligned to Open Source rather than making it closed sourced.
    • Custom Features of open source software tools supported only by Cloudera are tricky. Cant commit changes to tools like Hue.
    • Improvements to Cluster Management tool is required, which are already available to its competitors.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudera
    Likely to renew the use in case the requirements for Cloudera remain valid. The rapid change in customer requirements and solutions that must be validated, integrated or tested changes. As the maturity of the solution increases, the requirements to renew use decrease. From a solution feature perspective by itself would probably grade 10.
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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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    Cloudera
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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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    Cloudera
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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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    Cloudera
    Cloudera is
    compatible with Windows operating systems, and Mac allows cloud-based
    deployment, it is also very useful to configure data encryption, guarantee
    protocols, and security policies. It also provides integrated auditing and
    monitoring capabilities, as well as a control comprehensive data repository for
    the enterprise, and ensures vendor compatibility through its open-source
    architecture.
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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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    Cloudera
    • Cloudera products are the most widely. It is more business friendly as data is more secure. The sensitive data that you operate on is local to you and your project rather than processing this data on Cloud.
    • Cloudera is definitely faster as wait time is reduced if on Cloud.
    • A lot range of products are covered. So it is definitely good for businesses and had good returns on investments.
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