HPE Data Fabric vs. IBM watsonx.data

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HPE Data Fabric
Score 9.4 out of 10
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HPE Data Fabric (formerly MapR, acquired by HPE in 2019) is a software-defined datastore and file system that simplifies data management and analytics by unifying data across core, edge, and multicloud sources into a single platform.N/A
IBM watsonx.data
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Watsonx.data is presented as an open, hybrid and governed data store that makes it possible for enterprises to scale analytics and AI with a fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture, supported by querying, governance and open data formats to access and share data.N/A
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
HPE Data Fabric
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I don't believe there is as much support for MapR yet compared to other more widely known products.
Chose HPE Data Fabric
Hortonworks and Cloudera are both sort of hacky. We have to do a lot of extra steps to automate those two. MapR has far fewer issues and doesn't force you into a once size fits all deployment scenario. There are multiple ways to deploy and some are more amenable to automation, …
Chose HPE Data Fabric
When we were shopping, Mapr had the momentum, high availability even on Hadoop 1.x, an improved file system and better a central control system. Now it looks like the situation has changed a lot.
Chose HPE Data Fabric
We supported all three Hadoop vendors with our Hadoop RDBMS product. Here's how I see the commercial Hadoop distribution world. If you need raw performance and don't mind proprietary technology, go with MapR. If you care about the most pure open source, go with Hortonworks. If …
IBM watsonx.data
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with iceberg open table format and presto engine the performance and flexibility increased and also with watsonx.ai with GENAI capability which other tools lag as of now.
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Salesforce Genie and Snowflake
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Oracle really cost effective solution, where it has the support of community, with rich integration of all wide range of oracle products.
Amazon sageMaker is another cost effective solution, where is tightly coupled with AWS platform, in terms of performance it copes up really …
Chose IBM watsonx.data
IBM watsonx.data integrates well with other IBM services used in our deployment and provides enterprise grade security which is critical for our regulated business
Chose IBM watsonx.data
AstraDB was giving me vector database solutions, Retrieval Augmented Generation features and even Agentic workflows that IBM watsonx.data does not have currently. But the volume of data I've coming everyday and has to deal with everyday, can do anomaly detection just in plain …
Chose IBM watsonx.data
Pinecone and IBM watsonx.data (Milvus in our case) both work great as a full-managed cloud-based vector database.
We selected IBM watsonx.data because it integrates well with watson.ai and is a little more beginner friendly than pinecone, but I think both are great anyway.
Chose IBM watsonx.data
IBM watsonx.data helps in reducing data warehousing costs. IBM AIOps Insights focuses mainly on incident management, while IBM watsonx.data provides a flexible data store.
Chose IBM watsonx.data
May be I cannot say why I choose, business preferred to use IBM watsonx.data which is good for me as well to learn. I cannot compare this tool with others because it has unique feature which alteryx or Amazon or Azure dont have. So this tool is going good for us.
Chose IBM watsonx.data
IBM watsonx.data has great capabilities on multiple data easy accessibility and easy to extract data and sharing to various platforms. The IBM watsonx.data still offers effective data protection and the ability to manage large amount of business data from one piont is …
Chose IBM watsonx.data
We use IBM watsonx.data as a unified data platform to integrate and govern data across systems, eliminating silos and improving data quality. Its open lakehouse architecture enables faster, trusted access to data for AI, analytics, and reporting, forming the foundation for …
Chose IBM watsonx.data
Already using the watsonx.orchestrate, so it's was easier to incorporate this into existing infrastructure.
Chose IBM watsonx.data
IBM watsonx.ai and IBM watsonx.governance
Chose IBM watsonx.data
The three pair nicely together to create my own RAG solution in a controlled manner.
Chose IBM watsonx.data
IBM watsonx.data stacks up against Snowflake very well. It come in at a less expensive price. Also, you can run IBM watsonx.data on any cloud. or on prem.. Much more flexible.
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Cloudera Manager
Cloudera Manager
Score 9.9 out of 10
Snowflake
Snowflake
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Analytics Engine
IBM Analytics Engine
Score 7.1 out of 10
Snowflake
Snowflake
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
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7.2
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User Testimonials
HPE Data FabricIBM watsonx.data
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need Hadoop and just need raw speed for I/O and have a Hadoop savvy group of engineers who don't need/like web UIs, then MapR is a great fit for you. If you are new to Hadoop or have DevOps folks that are not Hadoop gurus, choosing MapR as your Hadoop vendor will have a steeper learning curve as you will need to do more training and build more admin consoles for them.
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IBM watsonx.data is well suited for use cases were you have to combine various data sources to build a lakehouse. It provides a secure framework to gather data and provide access to it to build ML/AI models. It allows users to focus on prompts and business logic than spend time on data engineering.
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Pros
  • MapR allows easy integration with HBase and MapR DB.
  • Easy trial server setup for product testing.
  • Excellent training program to help new users get up-to-date with MapR and related products.
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  • It doesn't just store data but unlocks potential. I am able to analyse a vast amount of information, identify trends, and predict future outcomes.
  • It not only gives me high quality but accessible data as well. It handles missing values, outliers and feature engineering with case.
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Cons
  • I think MapR's main problem is name recognition. Hortonworks and Cloudera both are big names in the industry, but their deployment mechanisms are a little more difficult to use, especially when trying to fully automate it's deployment.
  • Documentation could always be better. But really, if that's your main weakness, it's everybody's weakness.
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  • Cloud based is the easy solution, though not always preferred
  • Slow importing of data due to the chunks causing many records
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Usability
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I can give it 10/10 due to its impact in data analysis management. This is the right software for driving business insights and enhancing effective decision making. The infrastructure has the formal tools for preparing data before using it to make critical decisions. The NLP has enhanced standard analysis of unstructured data from social media websites.
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Alternatives Considered
Hortonworks and Cloudera are both sort of hacky. We have to do a lot of extra steps to automate those two. MapR has far fewer issues and doesn't force you into a once size fits all deployment scenario. There are multiple ways to deploy and some are more amenable to automation, MapR just has that in spades
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Pinecone and IBM watsonx.data (Milvus in our case) both work great as a full-managed cloud-based vector database. We selected IBM watsonx.data because it integrates well with watson.ai and is a little more beginner friendly than Pinecone, but I think both are great anyway.
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Return on Investment
  • Less manual intervention for maintaining a cluster.
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  • for one automation project, we managed to cut cloud storage costs by a third through IBM watsonx.data's lakehouse optimization
  • data integration projects have had a 20 % reduction in turnaround times. Can only imagine how that will improve with the Claude partnership
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