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Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) vs. Snowflake

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    Amazon EMR

    Score8.1 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

    Snowflake

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
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    Amazon EMRSnowflake
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    Amazon EMRSnowflake
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon EMRSnowflake
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon EMR
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon EMR
    Amazon EMR (Elastic Map Reduce) compares well against GCP and Azure - but you need to be careful of the costs involved in spinning up such a cluster. It is easy to configure however and it is my preferred platform to deploy our solutions because of its ease of use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon EMR
    Amazon EMR is faster, cheaper, easier, and enjoyed more by our employees compared to Azure HDInsight. We selected Amazon because we saw an advertisement and wanted to try it out to see how it was. We will continue to use it until it is not around or until we find something that …
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    Snowflake Computing
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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 EMRSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    9.2
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.3
    (19 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)