Amazon EMR vs Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

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Amazon Elastic MapReduce is useful in cases where two conditions are met. First, that you are planning on using multiple big data tools simultaneously to analyze big data sets. And second, that you need a tool that simplifies managing big data tools. If these two conditions are met, MapReduce does a great job. The user interface is simple. The program eliminates some programming requirements. The software also makes setting up big data analyses much easier. With these benefits acknowledged, MapReduce is not a good tool for "small" data analyses, given that there are other tools that do the job quicker and much more professional output. If you're on the fence, try out MapReduce with competing "small" data tools and see if you really need big data software.

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Thomas Young

Owner, previous CEO

Econometric StudiosFinancial Services, 11-50 employees

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Cloudera Enterprise offers the right mix of components to build a robust data platform which supports both reporting and analytics which can deal with all sorts of data.

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Rakesh Neelavar Rao

Sr. Development Engineer - Big Data Platform Architecture

QuaeroMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Pros

Easier to implement than older on-premise solutions
Works with open source technologies.
Keeps processing cost low.
It is flexible and works also for short term workloads and the pricing changes to that model.

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Nicolas Costa Ossa

Director of Customer Operations & Account Management

KoombeaInternet, 51-200 employees

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One of the oldest distributors of enterprise standard Hadoop.
Distribution is based on open source Hadoop even though customizations are done on top of that.
Faster updates and bug fixes to the products as they have Apache committers.
Central configuration and control of your Hadoop platform (but still needs improvements).

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

It could have been more matured with machine learning capabilities.
The support material available online on Elastic MapReduce is limited and we might end up spending more time in understanding/researching the tool.

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Verified User

Analyst in Research & Development

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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As any new technology, difficult to hire resources who know the solution specially in APJC to help with Lab and PoC activities.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Professional Services

Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub 8.2

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Cloudera is expanding with varied range of products and it looks to me as a challenging company and very competitive in the Big Data market. I would recommend to using the latest stable version as new features are added with each version and different bugs are fixed. As Big data is a constantly evolving so trying new Cloudera products helps businesses to stay competitive in the market domain as every big organization is now trying to move to Big Data.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Amazon EMR 8.2

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I give Amazon EMR this rating because while it is great at simplifying running big data frameworks, providing the Amazon EMR highlights, product details, and pricing information, and analyzing vast amounts of data, it can be run slow, freeze and glitch sometimes. So overall Amazon EMR is pretty good to use other than some basic issues.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon EMR 9.3

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AWS and EMR support are on par with the best out there. You pay a premium for the support but they can save you time and money by quickly resolving issues or helping you get your problem taken care of. They are competing with Google and MS, and it shows in their support.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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 versioning and potentially faster access to newer versions of some frameworks such as Spark.

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Director in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

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I have not evaluated any similar products, and in fact, don't know of any direct competitor. Amazon's Redshift has a similar spirit.

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Lois Garcia, GSEC

Senior System Administrator

TuneInInternet, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees

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The tools in Cloudera Enterprise have enabled us to perform seamless upgrades and monitor the clusters
Investing in the support enables us to engage with Cloudera to get access to required patches and backports in case of bugs which helps with wider adoption of open source software in the enterprise.
Voice of the customer enabled us to put forth requests for new features across various components.

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Rakesh Neelavar Rao

Sr. Development Engineer - Big Data Platform Architecture

QuaeroMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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General

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Amazon EMR

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

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Amazon EMR

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

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Amazon EMR

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

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Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

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Amazon EMR

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

Usability

Amazon EMR

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

Support Rating

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Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

Alternatives Considered

Amazon EMR

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

Return on Investment

Amazon EMR

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

Pricing Details

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Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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