We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Hadoop solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."
"It has a variety of options and support systems."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"Provides a viable open-source solution for enterprise implementations and reliable, intelligent data analysis."
"Customer service and support were able to fix whatever the issue was."
"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."
"It is helpful to gather and process data."
"CDH has a wide variety of proprietary tools that we use, like Impala. So from that perspective, it's quite useful as opposed to something open-source. We get a lot of value from Cloudera's proprietary tools."
"The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is Kubernetes."
"It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"Amazon EMR can improve by adding some features, such as megastore services and HiveServer2. Additionally, the user interface could be better, similar to what Apache service provides, cross-platform services."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"We don't have much control. If we have multiple users, if they want to scale up, the cost will go and increase and we don't know how we can restrict that price part."
"Without the big data environment, we cannot store all of this data live. We have billions of records and terabytes of storage to be used. It's not an option actually for us to have a big data environment."
"While the deployed product is generally functional, there are instances where it presents difficulties."
"The price of this solution could be lowered."
"The governance aspect of the solution should be improved."
"Cloudera's support is extremely bad and cannot be relied on."
"The competitors provide better functionalities."
"The Cloudera training has deteriorated significantly."
"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."
More Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop Pricing and Cost Advice →
Amazon EMR is ranked 3rd in Hadoop with 20 reviews while Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop writes "Good end-to-end security features and we like that it's cloud independent". Amazon EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, Cassandra, ScyllaDB and MongoDB. See our Amazon EMR vs. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop report.
See our list of best Hadoop vendors.
We monitor all Hadoop reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.