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Amazon EMR vs Qubole: What are the differences?
What is Amazon EMR? Distribute your data and processing across a Amazon EC2 instances using Hadoop. Amazon EMR is used in a variety of applications, including log analysis, web indexing, data warehousing, machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics. Customers launch millions of Amazon EMR clusters every year.
What is Qubole? Prepare, integrate and explore Big Data in the cloud (Hive, MapReduce, Pig, Presto, Spark and Sqoop). Qubole is a cloud based service that makes big data easy for analysts and data engineers.
Amazon EMR and Qubole belong to "Big Data as a Service" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Amazon EMR are:
- Elastic- Amazon EMR enables you to quickly and easily provision as much capacity as you need and add or remove capacity at any time. Deploy multiple clusters or resize a running cluster
- Low Cost- Amazon EMR is designed to reduce the cost of processing large amounts of data. Some of the features that make it low cost include low hourly pricing, Amazon EC2 Spot integration, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance integration, elasticity, and Amazon S3 integration.
- Flexible Data Stores- With Amazon EMR, you can leverage multiple data stores, including Amazon S3, the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and Amazon DynamoDB.
On the other hand, Qubole provides the following key features:
- Intuitive GUI
- Optimized Hive
- Improved S3 Performance
"On demand processing power" is the top reason why over 13 developers like Amazon EMR, while over 9 developers mention "Simple UI and autoscaling clusters" as the leading cause for choosing Qubole.
Pros of Amazon EMR
- On demand processing power15
- Don't need to maintain Hadoop Cluster yourself12
- Hadoop Tools7
- Elastic6
- Backed by Amazon4
- Flexible3
- Economic - pay as you go, easy to use CLI and SDKs3
- Don't need a dedicated Ops group2
- Great support1
- Massive data handling1
Pros of Qubole
- Simple UI and autoscaling clusters13
- Feature to use AWS Spot pricing10
- Optimized Spark, Hive, Presto, Hadoop 2, HBase clusters7
- Real-time data insights through Spark Notebook7
- Hyper elastic and scalable6
- Easy to manage costs6
- Easy to configure, deploy, and run Hadoop clusters6
- Backed by Amazon4
- Gracefully Scale up & down with zero human intervention4
- All-in-one platform2
- Backed by Azure2