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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Hortonworks Data Platform (discontinued)

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AHortonworks Data Platform (HDP) was an open source framework for distributed storage and processing of large, multi-source data sets. Hortonworks merged with Cloudera in eary 2019. Cloudera has since stopped supporting Hortonworks, and it is no longer publicly available for download.N/A

    Microsoft SQL Server

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft SQL Server is a relational database.

    $1,418

    Per License

    Pricing
    Hortonworks Data Platform (discontinued)Microsoft SQL Server
    Editions & Modules
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    Subscription
    $1,418.00
    Per License
    Enterprise
    $13,748.00
    Per License
    Offerings
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    Hortonworks Data Platform (discontinued)Microsoft SQL Server
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Cloudera Manager (no longer available standalone)
    Score9.9 out of 10
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score7.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Hortonworks Data Platform (discontinued)Microsoft SQL Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (9 ratings)
    7.9
    (107 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.6
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
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    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
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    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    9.0
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Hortonworks Data Platform (discontinued)Microsoft SQL Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    I find HDP easy to use and solves most of the problems for people looking to manage their big data. Evaluating the Hortonworks Data Platform is easy as it is free to download and install in your cluster. Single node cluster available as Sandbox is also easy for POCs.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft SQL is ubiquitous, while MySQL runs under the hood all over the place. Microsoft SQL is the platform taught in colleges and certification courses and is the one most likely to be used by businesses because it is backed by Microsoft. Its interface is friendly (well, as pleasant as SQL can be) and has been used by so many for so long that resources are freely available if you encounter any issues.
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    Pros
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    • It does a good job of packaging a lot of big data components into bundles and lets you use the ones you are interested in or need. It supports an extensive list of components which lets us solve many problems.
    • It provides the ability to manage installations and maintenance using Apache Ambari. It helps us in using management packs to install/upgrade components easily. It also helps us add, remove components, add, remove hosts, perform upgrades in a convenient manner. It also provides alerts and notifications and monitors the environment.
    • What they excel in is packaging open source components that are relevant and are useful to solve and complement each other as well as contribute to enhancing those components. They do a great job in the community to keep on top of what would be useful to users, fixing bugs and working with other companies and individuals to make the platform better.
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    • Easy to configure and use with Visual Studio and Dot Net
    • Easy integration with MSBI to perform data analysis
    • Data Security
    • Easy to understand and use
    • Very easy to export database and tables in the form of SQL query or a script
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    Cons
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    • Since it doesn't come with propriety tools for big data management, additional integration is need (for query handling, search, etc).
    • It was very straightforward to store clinical data without relations, such as data from sensors of a medical device. But it has limitations when needed to combine the data with other clinical data in structured format (e.g. lab results, diagnosis).
    • Overall look and feel of front-end management tools (e.g. monitoring) are not good. It is not bad but it doesn't look professional.
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    Microsoft
    • Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition has a high cost but is the only edition which supports SQL Always On Availability Groups. It would be nice to include this feature in the Standard version.
    • Licensing of Microsoft SQL Server is a quite complex matter, it would be good to simplify licensing in the future. For example, per core vs per user CAL licensing, as well as complex licensing scenarios in the Cloud and on Edge locations.
    • It would be good to include native tools for converting Oracle, DB2, Postgresql and MySQL/MariaDB databases (schema and data) for import into Microsoft SQL Server.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Microsoft
    We understand that the Microsoft SQL Server will continue to advance, offering the same robust and reliable platform while adding new features that enable us, as a software center, to create a superior product. That provides excellent performance while reducing the hardware requirements and the total cost of ownership of our solution.
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    Usability
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    Microsoft
    SQL Server mostly 'just works' or generates error messages to help you sort out the trouble. You can usually count on the product to get the job done and keep an eye on your potential mistakes. Interaction with other Microsoft products makes operating as a Windows user pretty straight forward. Digging through the multitude of dialogs and wizards can be a pain, but the answer is usually there somewhere.
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    Reliability and Availability
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    Microsoft
    Its does not have outages.
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    Performance
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    Microsoft
    SSAS data cubes may some time slow down your Excel reports.
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    Support Rating
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    Microsoft
    We managed to handle most of our problems by looking into Microsoft's official documentation that has everything explained and almost every function has an example that illustrates in detail how a particular functionality works. Just like PowerShell has the ability to show you an example of how some cmdlet works, that is the case also here, and in my opinion, it is a very good practice and I like it.
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    In-Person Training
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    Microsoft
    It was good
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    Online Training
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    Microsoft
    very hands on and detailed training
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Try not to change variable names.
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    Microsoft
    Other than SQL taking quite a bit of time to actually install there are no problems with installation. Even on hardware that has good performance SQL can still take close to an hour to install a typical server with management and reporting services.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    We chose [Hortonworks Data Platform] because it's free and because [it] was an IBM partner, suggested as big data platform after biginsights platform.
    You can install in more physical computer without high specs, then you can use it in order to learn how to deploy, configure a complete big data cluster.
    We installed also in a cloud infrastructure of 5 virtual machine
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    Microsoft
    [Microsoft] SQL Server has a much better community and professional support and is overall just a more reliable system with Microsoft behind it. I've used MySQL in the past and SQL Server has just become more comfortable for me and is my go to RDBMS.
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    Scalability
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    Microsoft
    SQL server does handle growing demands of a mid sized company.
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    Return on Investment
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    • It is difficult to have a negative impact, because the required investment is not that high.
    • The big open community behind Hortonworks and related Apache Project makes it easy to put 'the wheel to meet the road' quite quickly.
    • We have seen management meetings where the attendants were impressed by the results achieved with the datalake built on HDP.
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    Microsoft
    • Increased accuracy - We went from multiple users having different versions of an Excel spreadsheet to a single source of truth for our reporting.
    • Increased Efficiency - We can now generate reports at any time from a single source rather than multiple users spending their time collating data and generating reports.
    • Improved Security - Enterprise level security on a dedicated server rather than financial files on multiple laptop hard drives.
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