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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Cloudera Manager

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ACloudera Manager is a management application for Apache Hadoop and the enterprise data hub, from Cloudera. Its automated wizards let users quickly deploy a cluster, no matter what the scale or the deployment environment, complete with intelligent, system-based default settings.

    $0.07

    per hour CCU

    Pricing
    Amazon EMRCloudera Manager
    Editions & Modules
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    Data Hub
    $0.04/CCU
    Hourly rate
    Data Engineering
    $0.07/CCU
    Hourly rate
    Data Warehouse
    $0.07/CCU
    Hourly rate
    Operational Database
    $0.08/CCU
    Hourly rate
    Flow Management on Data Hub
    $0.15/CCU
    Hourly rate
    Machine Learning
    $0.17/CCU
    Hourly rate
    DataFlow
    $0.30/CCU
    Hourly rate
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon EMRCloudera Manager
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing is per Cloudera Compute Unit (CCU) which is a combination of Core and Memory. CCU prices shown for each service are estimates and may vary depending on actual instance types. The prices reflected do not include infrastructure cost, networking costs, and other related costs which will vary depending on the services you choose and your cloud service provider.
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    Amazon EMRCloudera Manager
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    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon EMR
    EMR provides dynamic cluster size, lots of documentation, and integration with other Amazon Web Services which are some of the things that Cloudera distribution for Hadoop lacked. Some products are hard to learn but EMR was much easier and helped save time spent on trying to …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Cloudera Manager
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Apache Spark
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Apache Spark
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EMRCloudera Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon EMRCloudera Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Cloudera
    It would be suited for customers who feel more comfortable with using a GUI. It is less appropriate for developers or engineers who are comfortable with command line
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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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    Cloudera
    • Graphical user interface
    • Management of third party applications start/stop/restart functionality through framework
    • Support of Apache Hadoop ecosystem
    • Ability to do "rolling restarts"
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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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    Cloudera
    • Cloudera Manager needs to be more agile with integrating other applications, such as Accumulo 1.7, to their software.
    • Cloudera Manager can do a better job at explaining why a node fails to add to a cluster using their assistant.
    • Cloudera Manager should show graphs only when there is data, instead of showing just an empty box.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
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    Cloudera
    It is a well developed product with a good user interface.
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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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    Cloudera
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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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    Cloudera
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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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    Cloudera
    I have not used any competitors, such as Hortonworks, because Cloudera Manager just works and meets all my customer's needs. I only have deployed Hadoop using command line, which is not easy to use and manage.
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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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    Cloudera
    • Cloudera Manager has allowed our organization to deploy Apache Hadoop to operations quicker and with less training versus using the command line exclusively.
    • Increased employee efficiency.
    • Increased product adoption.
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