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Amazon EMR vs Hortonworks Data Platform comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Cloudera are both solutions in the Hadoop category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0, while Cloudera is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3. Additionally, 85% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Cloudera users who would recommend it.
Amazon EMR
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85% willing to recommend
Hortonworks Data Platform
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89% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR and Hortonworks Data Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EMR
Ranking in Hadoop
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (11th)
Hortonworks Data Platform
Ranking in Hadoop
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (15th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (9th)
 

Featured Reviews

Prashant Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to manage and reliable but the cost is hard to control
The cost is increasing. We are looking into how we can optimize the cost part of EMR. We're doing a comparison between Cloudera running on AWS and running AWS EMR. 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.
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Prashant Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
A good technology with an easy setup but is at end of life
The solution is fairly simple to set up. It's not too complex or difficult. If you know the solution, it's easy. However, there is a learning curve. If you don't know anything about it, it can be more complex. You can typically deploy it within a week. We have five or six people capable of handling a deployment.
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"One of the valuable features about this solution is that it's managed services, so it's pretty stable, and scalable as much as you wish. It has all the necessary distributions. With some additional work, it's also possible to change to a Spark version with the latest version of EMR. It also has Hudi, so we are leveraging Apache Hudi on EMR for change data capture, so then it comes out-of-the-box in EMR."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The solution is pretty simple to set up."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The solution is scalable."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"The security of the managed workflow and the managed services are the best features for us. Since we inherited their security model and it's all managed services, those are the key benefits for our clients."
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"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"The Hortonworks solution is so stable. It is working as a production system, without any error, without any downtime. If I have downtime, it is mostly caused by the hardware of the computers."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"It is a scalable platform."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"Now, using this solution, it is much cheaper to have all of the data available for searching, not in real-time, but whenever there is a pending request."
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Cons

"Amazon EMR is continuously improving, but maybe something like CI/CD out-of-the-box or integration with Prometheus Grafana."
"The product's features for storing data in static clusters could be better."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"As people are shifting from legacy solutions to other technologies, Amazon EMR needs to add more features that give more flexibility in managing user data."
"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."
"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
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"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten. It can be expensive since it's a managed service, and if you are not careful, you can run into unexpected charges. You can make a mistake that costs you tens of thousands of dollars. That's happened to us twice, so I'm sensitive to it. We're still trying to work on that. Our smallest client probably spends a hundred thousand dollars yearly on licensing, while our largest is well over a million."
"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."
"Amazon EMR is not very expensive."
"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"You don't need to pay for licensing on a yearly or monthly basis, you only pay for what you use, in terms of underlying instances."
"The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive."
"There is a small fee for the EMR system, but major cost components are the underlying infrastructure resources which we actually use."
"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."
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"Currently, we are using the product in a sandbox environment, and there is no licensing. We might choose a licensing option once we get the results."
"It is priced well and it is affordable"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
7%
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
16%
University
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon EMR?
Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EMR?
The cost of Amazon EMR is a little bit expensive, especially considering the support package, which includes a gold package.
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What needs improvement with Amazon EMR?
Spark jobs take longer on Amazon EMR compared to previous experiences. This aspect could be improved to make them more efficient.
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What do you like most about Hortonworks Data Platform?
Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hortonworks Data Platform?
I haven't done a price analysis specifically for HDP. However, when it was first introduced as Hadoop 2.0, there were a few use cases where the price was quite high. It was particularly expensive f...
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What needs improvement with Hortonworks Data Platform?
Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS. These platforms offer competitive storage solu...
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Also Known As

Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Hortonworks, HDP
 

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloudera
 

Overview

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) is a web service that makes it easy to quickly and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Amazon EMR simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective for you to distribute and process vast amounts of your data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.

The Hortonworks Data Platform is acclaimed for its robust handling of big data, offering scalable solutions for data storage optimization and advanced analytics. Users benefit from its seamless processing of both streaming and batch data, and efficient maintenance of data lakes for improved governance. Key features include comprehensive security and seamless integration with existing analytics tools, significantly enhancing organizational efficiency and decision-making capabilities.

 

Sample Customers

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Mayo Clinic, Symantec, Progressive Insurance, Noble Energy, Cardinal Health, Rogers, Mercy, Neustar, TRUECar, T-Mobile
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