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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Platform

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services used to build apps or take advantage of cloud infrastructural services, achieve legacy infrastructure modernization, or manage enterprise data and analytic needs.

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    HPE Data Fabric

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AHPE Data Fabric (formerly MapR, acquired by HPE in 2019) is a software-defined datastore and file system that simplifies data management and analytics by unifying data across core, edge, and multicloud sources into a single platform.N/A
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Google Cloud PlatformHPE Data Fabric
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Google Cloud Platform and HPE Data Fabric
    Feature
    Google Cloud Platform
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    7% below category average
    HPE Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates6.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images6.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Google Cloud PlatformHPE Data Fabric
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    HBase
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    Cassandra
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud PlatformHPE Data Fabric
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud PlatformHPE Data Fabric
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    When most of our stuff is in Google Cloud Platform, it works great to integrate and cross/share data that is all in Google Cloud Platform or BigQuery. It has simplified things from a permissions perspective as well. I'd say it is less appropriate when trying to test something quickly locally, or when half your stuff is in AWS or another provider.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    MapR is more well-suited for people who know what they are doing. I consider MapR the Hadoop distribution professionals use.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Easy to set up
    • Affordable use of the tool
    • Easy to access billing
    • Reliable service
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • MapR had very fast I/O throughput. The write speed was several times faster than what we could achieve with the other Hadoop vendors (Cloudera and Hortonworks). This is because MapR does not use HDFS, which is essentially a "meta filesystem". HDFS is built on top of the filesystem provided by the OS. MapR has their filesystem called MapR-FS, which is a true filesystem and accesses the raw disk drives.
    • The MapR filesystem is very easy to integrate with other Linux filesystems. When working with HDFS from Apache Hadoop, you usually have to use either the HDFS API or various Hadoop/HDFS command line utilities to interact with HDFS. You cannot use command line utilities native to the host operation system, which is usually Linux. At least, it is not easily done without setting up NFS, gateways, etc. With MapR-FS, you can mount the filesystem within Linux and use the standard Unix commands to manipulate files.
    • The HBase distribution provided by MapR is very similar to the Apache HBase distribution. Cloudera and Hortonworks add GUIs and other various tools on top of their HBase distributions. The MapR HBase distribution is very similar to the Apache distribution, which is nice if you are more accustomed to using Apache HBase.
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    Cons
    Google
    • The UI is so confusing. The console is good, but it is like a maze. There are too many menus and settings, and things do not work as expected. It takes time to get friendly, and it is not friendly for new users.
    • Support experience: Sometimes, you get a great engineer, but other times, it's very difficult to talk with them as they are unable to respond as expected and solve issues late.
    • Region and zone are issues, as not all services are available in all regions, which is lacking when deploying something in the same region or zone.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • It takes time to get latest versions of Apache ecosystem tools released as it has to be adapted.
    • When you have issues related to Mapr-FS or Mapr Tables, its hard to figure them out by ourselves.
    • Sometime new ecosystem tools versions are released without proper QA.
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    Usability
    Google
    The Google Cloud Platform console is pretty slick for BigQuery especially. I have liked the visibility I get from using that and the way to integrate and see what's in our data lake. The logging console for tracking GKE jobs isn't quite as great, which is why it doesn't get a full 10.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Cloud Platform is release later than Amazon web service, I think that why Google Cloud Platform can learned and optimized the Dashboard and some features that make it easy to use and can be cheaper than amazon web service.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    I don't believe there is as much support for MapR yet compared to other more widely known products.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • It allows us to focus our efforts on other, more important items at hand
    • It gives us an affordable option letting me know it's available to all users, not just the largest scale ones out there
    • The customer service is always helpful and reliable, along with the service itself which lets me focus on my work instead of worrying about the service.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Increased employee efficiency for sure. Our clients have various levels of expertise in their deployment and user teams, and we never receive complaints about MapR.
    • MapR is used by one of our financial services clients who uses it for fraud detection and user pattern analysis. They are able to turn around data much faster than they previously had with in-house applications
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