Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) vs. Apache Hadoop

Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

61 Reviews and Ratings

Apache Hadoop

268 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon EMR	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Amazon 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
Hadoop	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	Hadoop is an open source software from Apache, supporting distributed processing and data storage. Hadoop is popular for its scalability, reliability, and functionality available across commoditized hardware.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon EMR

Hadoop

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Pricing Offerings
Amazon EMR	Hadoop
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon EMR	Hadoop
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Jonathan Brotto SAP Specialist in Corporate at Ultident Scientific (Wholesale, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon EMR Apache Hadoop required us to do all the leg work and we did not have the resources for that. It was ideal that AWS offers a MapReduce solution as we use it to host various servers. It is one place for all our needs. Very convenient. Apache Hadoop is still a good product but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon EMR The alternatives to EMR are mainly hadoop distributions owned by the 3 companies above. I have not used the other distributions so it is difficult to comment, but the general tradeoff is, at the cost of a longer setup time and more infra management, you get more flexible … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon EMR Having one of these enterprise edition license comes at its own costs. But, the flexibility to have the cluster spin up with the workbenches and code snippets on the same is really beneficial. Especially, if one had to move out of EMR and consider an option which reduces the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	Apache Verified User Chose Hadoop It’s open source nature it’s community support its being configurable Incentivized Helpful? Johanes Siregar Big Data Analytics - Data Engineer in Information Technology at Telkomsel (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Hadoop Hadoop offers a scalable, cost-effective and highly available solution for big data storage and processing. The use of a non-proprietary physical layer greatly reduces dependency on technology. It also offers elastic dimensioning capability when deployed on virtual machines or … Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Fazalul Rahman Research Assistant in Research & Development at Rochester Institute of Technology (Research, 1-10 employees) Chose Hadoop Hadoop was a cheaper alternative to Amazon. Since I had to pay for every minute I use with Amazon, I had to make sure multiple times that the code was good enough before I purchased with Amazon. But since Hadoop was available on the cluster, I had the opportunity to code on the … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Amazon EMR	Hadoop
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (19 ratings)	8.0 (37 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.6 (8 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (4 ratings)	8.0 (6 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (3 ratings)	7.5 (3 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	6.1 (2 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	- (0 ratings)	7.7 (10 ratings)
Data Sources	- (0 ratings)	8.7 (10 ratings)