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    Amazon EMR

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAmazon EMR is a cloud-native big data platform for processing vast amounts of data quickly, at scale. Using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi (Incubating), and Presto, coupled with the scalability of Amazon EC2 and scalable storage of Amazon S3, EMR gives analytical teams the engines and elasticity to run Petabyte-scale analysis.N/A

    Azure Data Lake Storage

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AAzure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a highly scalable and cost-effective data lake solution for big data analytics. It combines the power of a high-performance file system with massive scale and economy to help you speed your time to insight. Data Lake Storage Gen2 extends Azure Blob Storage capabilities and is optimized for analytics workloads.N/A
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    Chose Azure Data Lake Storage
    Azure Data Lake Storage from a functionality perspective is a much easier solution to work with. It's implementation from Amazon EMR went smooth, and continued usage is definitely better. However, Amazon EMR was significantly cheaper overall between the high transaction fees …
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    Azure Blob Storage
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cloudera Manager
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Pure Storage FlashBlade
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    Apache Spark
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Google Cloud Storage
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EMRAzure Data Lake Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    8.2
    (13 ratings)
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon EMRAzure Data Lake Storage
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    Amazon AWS
    We are running it to perform preparation which takes a few hours on EC2 to be running on a spark-based EMR cluster to total the preparation inside minutes rather than a few hours. Ease of utilization and capacity to select from either Hadoop or spark. Processing time diminishes from 5-8 hours to 25-30 minutes compared with the Ec2 occurrence and more in a few cases.
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    Microsoft
    Azure Data Lake is an absolutely essential piece of a modern data and analytics platform. Over the past 2 years, our usage of Azure Data Lake as a reporting source has continued to grow and far exceeds more traditional sources like MS SQL, Oracle, etc.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • EMR does well in managing the cost as it uses the task node cores to process the data and these instances are cheaper when the data is stored on s3. It is really cost efficient. No need to maintain any libraries to connect to AWS resources.
    • EMR is highly available, secure and easy to launch. No much hassle in launching the cluster (Simple and easy).
    • EMR manages the big data frameworks which the developer need not worry (no need to maintain the memory and framework settings) about the framework settings. It's all setup on launch time. The bootstrapping feature is great.
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    Microsoft
    • Setting up Azure Data Lake Storage account, container is quite easy
    • Access from anywhere and easy maintenance
    • Integration with Azure Data Factory service for end to end pipeline is pretty easy
    • Can store Any form of data (Structured, Unstructured, Semi) in faster manner
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • It would have been better if packages like HBase and Flume were available with Amazon EMR. This would make the product even more helpful in some cases.
    • Products like Cloudera provide the options to move the whole deployment into a dedicated server and use it at our discretion. This would have been a good option if available with EMR.
    • If EMR gave the option to be used with any choice of cloud provider, it would have helped instead of having to move the data from another cloud service to S3.
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    Microsoft
    • study for the certifications also to have them as a reference for work when you have any questions about applying a configuration to the equipment.
    • The Internet interface is simple and easy to use. Capacity is good and it's good that HP continues to innovate with this technology
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Documentation is quite good and the product is regularly updated, so new features regularly come out. The setup is straightforward enough, especially once you have already established the overall platform infrastructure and the aws-cli APIs are easy enough to use. It would be nice to have some out-of-the-box integrations for checking logs and the Spark UI, rather than relying on know-how and digging through multiple levels to find the informations
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    Microsoft
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    I give the overall support for Amazon EMR this rating because while the support technicians are very knowledgeable and always able to help, it sometimes takes a very long time to get in contact with one of the support technicians. So overall the support is pretty good for Amazon EMR.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Snowflake is a lot easier to get started with than the other options. Snowflake's data lake building capabilities are far more powerful. Although Amazon EMR isn't our first pick, we've had an excellent experience with EC2 and S3. Because of our current API interfaces, it made more sense for us to continue with Hadoop rather than explore other options.
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    Microsoft
    Azure Data Lake Storage from a functionality perspective is a much easier solution to work with. It's implementation from Amazon EMR went smooth, and continued usage is definitely better. However, Amazon EMR was significantly cheaper overall between the high transaction fees and cost of storage due to growth. The two both have their advantages and disadvantages, but the functionality of Azure Data Lake Storage outweighed it's cost
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • It was obviously cheaper and convenient to use as most of our data processing and pipelines are on AWS. It was fast and readily available with a click and that saved a ton of time rather than having to figure out the down time of the cluster if its on premises.
    • It saved time on processing chunks of big data which had to be processed in short period with minimal costs. EMR solved this as the cluster setup time and processing was simple, easy, cheap and fast.
    • It had a negative impact as it was very difficult in submitting the test jobs as it lags a UI to submit spark code snippets.
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    Microsoft
    • Instead of having separate pools of storage for data we are now operating on a single layer platform which has cut down on time spent on maintaining those separate pools.
    • We have had more of an ROI with the scalability as we are able to control costs of storage when need be.
    • We are able to operate in a more streamlined approach as we are able to stay within the Azure suite of products and integrate seamlessly with the rest of the applications in our cloud-based infrastructure
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