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Amazon EMR vs HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

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)
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric
Ranking in Hadoop
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Hadoop category, the mindshare of Amazon EMR is 14.7%, down from 18.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric is 14.2%, up from 10.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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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.
Arnab Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
It's flexible and easily accessible across multiple locations, but the upgrade process is complicated
Upgrading Ezmeral to a new version is a pain. They're trying to make the solution more container-friendly, so I think they're going in the right direction. The only problem we've had in the past was the upgrades. The process isn't smooth due to how the Red Hat operating system upgrades currently work. They're transforming their host stack to increase cloud readiness and edge compute capability. HPE is transitioning from a standard data-driven approach to one powered by AI analytics. That's something they have released very recently. I haven't tried that, but it will probably make things easier. The ability to adapt Ezmeral to the public cloud is probably missing. I've heard that they're getting leaner. However, it doesn't have a clear managed services offering for you if you want to deploy this stack on the cloud. That's a problem. This probably won't meet your needs if you require consistency across on-prem and the cloud. It's not Ezmeral's fault. None of the products would fit the bill. Cloud offerings are biased towards their own implementation. It's a general issue on most big data platforms. They're already working towards that, but it hasn't been released.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."
"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"We are using applications, such as Splunk, Livy, Hadoop, and Spark. We are using all of these applications in Amazon EMR and they're helping us a lot."
"I like the administration part."
"My customers find the product cheaper compared to other solutions. The previous solution that we used did not have unified analytics like the runtime or the analog."
"HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric can be accessed from any namespace globally as you would access it from a machine using an NFS."
"The model creation was very interesting, especially with the libraries provided by the platform."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
 

Cons

"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."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"The solution can become expensive if you are not careful."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"Spark jobs take longer on Amazon EMR compared to previous experiences."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"Having the ability to extend the services provided by the platform to an API architecture, a micro-services architecture, could be very helpful."
"The deployment could be faster. I want more support for the data lake in the next release."
"HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric is not compatible with third-party tools."
"Upgrading Ezmeral to a new version is a pain. They're trying to make the solution more container-friendly, so I think they're going in the right direction. The only problem we've had in the past was the upgrades. The process isn't smooth due to how the Red Hat operating system upgrades currently work."
"The product is not user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."
"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."
"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."
"Amazon EMR is not very expensive."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
"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."
"There is a need for my company to pay for the licensing costs of the solution."
"The tool's price is cheap and based on a usage basis. The solution's licensing costs are yearly and there are no extra costs."
"HPE is flexible with you if you are an existing customer. They offer different models that might be beneficial for your organization. It all depends on how you negotiate."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
7%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
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.
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.
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.
What do you like most about HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric?
It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution.
What needs improvement with HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric?
There are some drawbacks in HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric when it comes to the interoperability part. HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric is not compatible with third-party tools. For example, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabri...
What is your primary use case for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric?
The main purpose of HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric for me is that it acts as a database. In my company, we store our data with the help of HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric. It is possible to use Spark engine with ...
 

Also Known As

Amazon Elastic MapReduce
MapR, MapR Data Platform
 

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Sample Customers

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