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Likelihood to Recommend
Hadoop
Apache Hadoop (and its subsequent add-ons) are well-suited to larger, unstructured data flows, such as aggregation of web traffic or advertising. Geospatial algorithms and their outputs are well-suited for this kind of aggregation as structuring that data is challenging, but leaving it unstructured and performing queries as-needed is a better fit for most business models. With the advent of data science, I would expect Hadoop fits a LOT of their initial outputs quite well.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Simpli.fiOnline Media, 201-500 employees
Datawatch Monarch
The product is especially useful when you have real-time and/or time series data to analyze. If you have more mundane, simpler requirements, other products might do the job you need for less money (there are even some decent open source visualization tools you can find.) I know the product is very widely used in capital markets applications to monitor and analyze risk and price and volume changes; if you're working in that area, I don't think there's a better tool to use.

Verified User
Executive in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesPros
Hadoop
- HDFS is reliable and solid, and in my experience with it, there are very few problems using it
- Enterprise support from different vendors makes it easier to 'sell' inside an enterprise
- It provides High Scalability and Redundancy
- Horizontal scaling and distributed architecture
Sr. Engineering Manager/Delivery Manager
Nisum Technologies, Inc.Retail, 10,001+ employees
Datawatch Monarch
- Creating a basic model to extract data from a report is very easy.
- Advanced features like Calculated Fields and External Lookups allow you to augment the raw data.
- You can create a "project" to automate the data extraction. Combined with Datapump (a separate DW app), you can fully automate the process once the raw report is generated.
Senior Deployment Analyst
US FoodsFood & Beverages, 10,001+ employees
Cons
Hadoop
- Hadoop is a batch oriented processing framework, it lacks real time or stream processing.
- Hadoop's HDFS file system is not a POSIX compliant file system and does not work well with small files, especially smaller than the default block size.
- Hadoop cannot be used for running interactive jobs or analytics.
Senior Software Engineer
San Jose State UniversityComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Datawatch Monarch
- Recently, we had some major sticker-shock when we wanted to upgrade Data Pump. It is an exceptional product, but when the price jumped from $6,000 to over $60,000, it was impossible to get the funds approved internally for the upgrade.
- We also paid for yearly maintenance contracts which included Professional Services, but rarely found those services beneficial. However, we did receive all software upgrades for Datapump as part of the contract which we found to be very beneficial. However, with the new pricing, that is not longer the case.
IT - Business Systems Analyst II
SUPERVALU, Inc.Wholesale, 10,001+ employees
Likelihood to Renew
Hadoop
Hadoop 9.6
Based on 8 answers
Hadoop is organization-independent and can be used for various purposes ranging from archiving to reporting and can make use of economic, commodity hardware. There is also a lot of saving in terms of licensing costs - since most of the Hadoop ecosystem is available as open-source and is free
Senior Vice President
IpsosInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Datawatch Monarch
Datawatch Monarch 7.2
Based on 6 answers
Even though we do not utilize it on a daily basis, I do hope my current company renews it's license. If not, I intend to purchase myself.
Revenue Cycle Operations Analyst
Lakeland Regional Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees
Usability
Hadoop
Hadoop 8.5
Based on 5 answers
Great! Hadoop has an easy to use interface that mimics most other data warehouses. You can access your data via SQL and have it display in a terminal before exporting it to your business intelligence platform of choice. Of course, for smaller data sets, you can also export it to Microsoft Excel.
Senior Financial Analyst
Lowe's Companies, Inc.Retail, 10,001+ employees
Datawatch Monarch
No score
No answers yet
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Support Rating
Hadoop
Hadoop 6.9
Based on 6 answers
We went with a third party for support, i.e., consultant. Had we gone with Azure or Cloudera, we would have obtained support directly from the vendor. my rating is more on the third party we selected and doesn't reflect the overall support available for Hadoop. I think we could have done better in our selection process, however, we were trying to use an already approved vendor within our organization. There is plenty of self-help available for Hadoop online.
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer
WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees
Datawatch Monarch
No score
No answers yet
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Online Training
Hadoop
Hadoop 6.1
Based on 2 answers
Hadoop is a complex topic and best suited for classrom training. Online training are a waste of time and money.
Senior Vice President
IpsosInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Datawatch Monarch
No score
No answers yet
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Alternatives Considered
Hadoop
Not used any other product than Hadoop and I don't think our company will switch to any other product, as Hadoop is providing excellent results. Our company is growing rapidly, Hadoop helps to keep up our performance and meet customer expectations. We also use HDFS which provides very high bandwidth to support MapReduce workloads.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesDatawatch Monarch
Datawatch is very good value of money compared to QlikView; QlikView is really more of a BI tool and has a lot of functions that I didn't need. Datawatch is very strong in the real-time area where Tableau, Panorama, and Qlik don't do very well. If you need to set up a visual monitoring dashboard, Datawatch is the best product I've seen for that. if you want to do a lot of in depth statistical analysis of large databases, Tableau is probably a good option.

Verified User
Executive in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
Hadoop
- Hadoop has allowed us to scale out a few of our tier-1, customer facing applications to provide very fast access to reports and analytics.
- Hadoop was easily implemented by our Linux team and onboarded by our Hadoop Admins.
- Hadoop has been a very stable platform and only goes down due to server patching or other maintenance.
Senior Network Administrator
Vizient, Inc.Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees
Datawatch Monarch
- Data Pump reduces complexity of report solutions by offering a standardized approach for organizing and scheduling
- 97% service level for past 5 years for all of our jobs going through Data Pump
IT - Business Systems Analyst II
SUPERVALU, Inc.Wholesale, 10,001+ employees
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Hadoop
—Pricing Details
Hadoop
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Datawatch Monarch
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional