Amazon EMR vs IBM Db2 Warehouse comparison

"The solution is pretty simple to set up."

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."

"Amazon EMR has multiple connectors that can connect to various data sources."

"The solution is scalable."

"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."

"The initial setup is 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."

"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."

"I think it scales really well and as long as you take enough time to learn a little bit about it, it works really well."

"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."

"It can be mounted on the cloud, which is a huge plus. If the client, for example, starts small with on-premise deployment and then it rapidly needs to grow, we can transfer this to the cloud easily."

"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."

"The solution is stable."

"It can scale effectively as long as resources are available."

"The most valuable features of IBM Db2 Warehouse include its availability, easy integration, ability to deal with a large size of data, excellent performance with no delays, powerful security mechanisms, and effective support."

"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."

"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."

"There is room for improvement in pricing."

"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."

"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."

"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."

"There were some initial challenges with IBM Db2 Warehouse about eight months ago when I worked in this environment. When I coordinated with IBM support, they mentioned that the memory was insufficient for our needs. Our business environment required significantly more memory than the previous cluster could provide. Consequently, we have worked closely with on-site IBM technical personnel to address this issue."

"The biggest challenge anyone could have with Db2 Warehouse is their references or online resources and documentation. They are very, very, very limited on the web."

"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."

"It takes a long time to have a new version or release, similar to Oracle."

"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."

"Responding to support tickets takes a lot of time. It can range from two to four days, even for critical issues."

"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."

"The biggest problems we have is when the backup solution is failing or slow and we run out of log space, which has happened probably a couple of times in the last four years."

"The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"There is a small fee for the EMR system, but major cost components are the underlying infrastructure resources which we actually use."

"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 cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

"Amazon EMR is not very expensive."

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

"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."

"In a traditional on-prem database, in a data warehouse, the solution is probably on the expensive side."