Amazon EMR vs IBM Analytics Engine comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are both solutions in the Hadoop category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3, while IBM is ranked #10. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 13.9% mindshare in H, compared to IBM’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Amazon EMR

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EMR

Ranking in Hadoop

3rd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Warehouse (12th)

IBM Analytics Engine

Ranking in Hadoop

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Hadoop category, the mindshare of Amazon EMR is 13.9%, down from 17.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Analytics Engine is 2.6%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Prashant Singh

Vice President -Product Management at Paytm

Seamless data integration enhances reporting efficiency and an easy setup

Amazon EMR has multiple connectors that can connect to various data sources. The service charges are based on processing only, depending on the resources used, which can help save money. It is easy to integrate with other services for storage, allowing data to be shifted to cheaper storage based on usage.

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Saket Pandey

Product Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

Good solution for small and medium-sized businesses and highly stable

I would advise instead of only going through other reviews; it would be great if you could schedule a talk with the IBM team that would be helping you implement this solution. They would deep dive into the process and protocols you are currently set up in, and then they will provide you an optimal solution and optimal price. So I believe talking with the support team was really amazing. They even helped us in some other parts as well. It is a good solution for small and medium-sized businesses. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten because of the support team. They were able to resolve issues, which helped us deploy higher-grade solutions correctly and quickly. We were able to ensure that our processes were working correctly, and we saved about 15-16% of a week's time by using this solution. In terms of return on investment, we saved about $7,000 a month.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Amazon EMR's most valuable features are processing speed and data storage capacity."

"We are using applications, such as Splunk, Livy, Hadoop, and Spark. We are using all of these applications in Amazon EMR and they're helping us a lot."

"The solution is pretty simple to set up."

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"The security of the managed workflow and the managed services are the best features for us. Since we inherited their security model and it's all managed services, those are the key benefits for our clients."

"Amazon EMR has multiple connectors that can connect to various data sources."

"One of the valuable features about this solution is that it's managed services, so it's pretty stable, and scalable as much as you wish. It has all the necessary distributions. With some additional work, it's also possible to change to a Spark version with the latest version of EMR. It also has Hudi, so we are leveraging Apache Hudi on EMR for change data capture, so then it comes out-of-the-box in EMR."

"It has a variety of options and support systems."

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"The best part was that we could make minor changes in the way we were bifurcating the data, even at a very small scale. The accuracy of conversion was also very high."

Cons

"Amazon EMR can improve by adding some features, such as megastore services and HiveServer2. Additionally, the user interface could be better, similar to what Apache service provides, cross-platform services."

"The problem for us is it starts very slow."

"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."

"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."

"As people are shifting from legacy solutions to other technologies, Amazon EMR needs to add more features that give more flexibility in managing user data."

"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."

"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."

"The dashboard management could be better. Right now, it's lacking a bit."

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"One area for improvement would be the initial setup stage, which took longer than expected."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten. It can be expensive since it's a managed service, and if you are not careful, you can run into unexpected charges. You can make a mistake that costs you tens of thousands of dollars. That's happened to us twice, so I'm sensitive to it. We're still trying to work on that. Our smallest client probably spends a hundred thousand dollars yearly on licensing, while our largest is well over a million."

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

"Amazon EMR is not very expensive."

"You don't need to pay for licensing on a yearly or monthly basis, you only pay for what you use, in terms of underlying instances."

"The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

"There is a small fee for the EMR system, but major cost components are the underlying infrastructure resources which we actually use."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon EMR?

Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data.

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Amazon Elastic MapReduce

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Overview

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) is a web service that makes it easy to quickly and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Amazon EMR simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective for you to distribute and process vast amounts of your data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

IBM Analytics Engine provides an architecture for Hadoop clusters that decouples the compute and storage tiers. Instead of a permanent cluster formed of dual-purpose nodes, the Analytics Engine allows users to store data in an object storage layer such as IBM Cloud Object Storage and spins up clusters of compute notes when needed. Separating compute from storage helps to transform the flexibility, scalability and maintainability of big data analytics platforms.

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