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Apache Hadoop vs Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Apache Hadoop
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (8th)
Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (11th)
 

Featured Reviews

Sushil Arya - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides ease of integration with the IT workflow of a business
When working with Kafka, I saw that the data came in an incremental order. The incremental data processing part is still not very effective in Apache Hadoop. If the data is already there, it can be processed very effectively, especially if the data is coming in every second. If you want to know the location of some data every second, then such data is not processed effectively in Apache Hadoop. I can say that one of the features where improvements are required revolves around the licensing cost of the tool. If the tool can build some licensing structures in a pay-per-use manner, organizations can get the look and feel of Apache Hadoop. Apache Hadoop can offer a licensing structure of the product that can be seen as similar to how AWS operates. Apache Hadoop can look into the capability of processing incremental data. The tool's setup process can be a scope of improvement. Also, it is not very simple because while doing the setup, we need to do all the server settings, including port listing and firewall configurations. If we look at other products on the market, then they can be made simpler. There are certain shortcomings when it comes to the product's technical support part, making it an area where improvements are required. The time frame for the resolution is an area that needs to be improved. The overall communication part of the technical support team also needs improvement.
Miodrag Milojevic - PeerSpot reviewer
A tool for data warehousing that offers scalability, stability, and ease of setup
The initial setup of Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is easy and basic, especially if one doesn't use the tricks to get Oracle Exadata for use. One doesn't need to know or be involved in technical stuff to do the setup since, at the least, knowledge might be required when working with some external connections, but it is easy because everything can be done within a couple of clicks. The solution is deployed on the cloud. For deployment, you don't need any technical guidance since you can sit, find it on the web, and prepare an Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse platform by yourself for free for a limited time. The people needed for the deployment and maintenance depend on the implementation one wants. If you do a simple implementation, you don't need anybody for maintenance since everything is on the cloud. You only have to schedule your backup or see if Oracle can schedule a backup, and you don't take care of the backup. For some more sophisticated or technical implementations, you will need staff for some data warehouse except for some parts of the maintenance like backup, patches, or upgrades since these are a few things you take care of in the background, and you only seek help with the maintenance part, if needed.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Hadoop is extensible — it's elastic."
"The platform's quick data processing capabilities have been instrumental in supporting our AI-driven projects."
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very powerful and very cheap."
"High throughput and low latency. We start with data mashing on Hive and finally use this for KPI visualization."
"​​Data ingestion: It has rapid speed, if Apache Accumulo is used."
"It's good for storing historical data and handling analytics on a huge amount of data."
"As compared to Hive on MapReduce, Impala on MPP returns results of SQL queries in a fairly short amount of time, and is relatively fast when reading data into other platforms like R."
"Its integration is Hadoop's best feature because that allows us to support different tools in a big data platform."
"The solution is self-securing. All data is encrypted and security updates and patches are applied automatically both periodically and off-cycle."
"A very good integration feature that restricts access to unauthorized people."
"One advantage is that if you already have an Oracle Database, it easily integrates with that."
"The solution is used for analytics and it works for our data security needs."
"The analytics have been very good. We've found them to be quite useful."
"The solution integrates well with Power BI."
"The product has self-repair features."
"The solution is used for analytics and it works for our data security needs."
 

Cons

"Improvements in security measures would be beneficial, given the large volumes of data handled."
"The integration with Apache Hadoop with lots of different techniques within your business can be a challenge."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Based on our needs, we would like to see a tool for data visualization and enhanced Ambari for management, plus a pre-built IoT hub/model. These would reduce our efforts and the time needed to prove to a customer that this will help them."
"The solution needs a better tutorial. There are only documents available currently. There's a lot of YouTube videos available. However, in terms of learning, we didn't have great success trying to learn that way. There needs to be better self-paced learning."
"The price could be better. I think we would use it more, but the company didn't want to pay for it. Hortonworks doesn't exist anymore, and Cloudera killed the free version of Hadoop."
"Hadoop's security could be better."
"In the next release, I would like to see Hive more responsive for smaller queries and to reduce the latency."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. It was not easy."
"Optimization should be better."
"A lot of the tools that were previously there have now been taken away."
"They should make the solution more user-friendly."
"It doesn't work well when you have unstructured data or you need online analytics. It is not as nice as Hadoop in these aspects."
"My main suggestion for Oracle is the configuration and key values that come for JSON files. When we create a table, especially if you see in our RedShift or some other stuff, if I create a table on top of a JSON file with multiple array columns or superset columns, those column values create some difficulty in Oracle."
"The setup is complex."
"The solution could be improved by allowing for migration tools from other cloud services, including migration from Amazon Redshift, RDS, and Aurora."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is open-source, but some associated licensing fees depend on the subscription level."
"It's reasonable, but there's room for improvement in cost-effectiveness."
"This is a low cost and powerful solution."
"We don't directly pay for it. Our clients pay for it, and they usually don't complain about the price. So, it is probably acceptable."
"The price could be better. Hortonworks no longer exists, and Cloudera killed the free version of Hadoop."
"​There are no licensing costs involved, hence money is saved on the software infrastructure​."
"The price of Apache Hadoop could be less expensive."
"If my company can use the cloud version of Apache Hadoop, particularly the cloud storage feature, it would be easier and would cost less because an on-premises deployment has a higher cost during storage, for example, though I don't know exactly how much Apache Hadoop costs."
"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."
"The solution's cost is reasonable."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."
"The price depends on the configuration we choose."
"The licensing cost of the product can vary since you can integrate it very easily with other products or other cloud products...You pay as you use it, so it is not yearly or monthly payments to be made toward Oracle."
"You pay as you go, and you don't pay for services that you don't use."
"The solution is expensive."
"ROI is high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
34%
Computer Software Company
11%
University
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
Educational Organization
48%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Apache Hadoop?
It's primarily open source. You can handle huge data volumes and create your own views, workflows, and tables. I can also use it for real-time data streaming.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Hadoop?
The product is open-source, but some associated licensing fees depend on the subscription level. While it might be free for students, organizations typically need to pay for their subscriptions. Th...
What needs improvement with Apache Hadoop?
Hadoop lacks OLAP capabilities. I recommend adding a Delta Lake feature to make the data compatible with ACID properties. Also, video and audio streaming import issues could be improved to ensure p...
What do you like most about Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
With Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, things are much simpler. Creating a structure, initializing the servers, extending the servers, those are all things that are very, very easy. That's the main...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support.
What needs improvement with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not supported, which is not ideal.
 

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