Amazon EMR vs Netezza Analytics comparison

"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."

"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."

"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."

"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."

"This is the best tool for hosts and it's really flexible and scalable."

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

"The solution is pretty simple to set up."

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"It is a back end for our SSIS, MicroStrategy,, Tableau. All of these are connecting to get the data. To do so we are also using our analytics which is built on the data."

"The performance of the solution is its most valuable feature. The solution is easy to administer as well. It's very user-friendly. On the technical side, the architecture is simple to understand and you don't need too many administrators to handle the solution."

"Data compression. It was relatively impressive. I think at some point we were getting 4:1 compression if not more."

"The need for administration involvement is quite limited on the solution."

"For me, as an end-user, everything that I do on the solution is simple, clear, and understandable."

"The most valuable feature is the performance."

"Speed contributes to large capacity."

"Spark jobs take longer on Amazon EMR compared to previous experiences."

"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."

"There is room for improvement in pricing."

"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."

"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."

"The legacy versions of the solution are not supported in the new versions."

"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 most valuable features of this solution are robustness and support."

"The Analytics feature should be simplified."

"The hardware has a risk of failure. They need to improve this."

"Disaster recovery support. Because it was an appliance, and if you wanted to support disaster recovery, you needed to buy two."

"I'm not sure of IBM's roadmap currently, as the solution is coming up on its end of life."

"The solution could implement more reporting tools and networking utilities."

"This product is being discontinued from IBM, and I would like to have some kind of upgrade available."

"Administration of this product is too tough. It's very complex because of the tools which it's missing."

"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."

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"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."

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

"The annual licensing fees are twenty-two percent of the product cost."

"For me, mainly, it reduces my costs. It's not only the appliance cost. There are also support costs and a maintenance costs. It does reduce the costs very drastically."

"Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."