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What is Altiscale?

we run Apache Hadoop for you. We not only deploy Hadoop, we monitor, manage, fix, and update it for you. Then we take it a step further: We monitor your jobs, notify you when something’s wrong with them, and can help with tuning.
Altiscale is a tool in the Big Data as a Service category of a tech stack.

Who uses Altiscale?

Companies

Developers
4 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Altiscale.
Pros of Altiscale
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An ops team comes with it, so you're free to analyze
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SOC2, PCI, HIPAA, Kerberos
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The easiest, lowest cost, highest performing option
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Hadoop ops experts run it all for you, don't need ops
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Our data sci & analysts would scream if went back toEMR
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Automated compute bursting
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Super elastic, scalable, secure
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Optimized cloud gives faster results, better completion
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Simple, easy to use UI - Data Navigator is great
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Easier pricing. No node worries. No surprise bills
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Real domain experts running hadoop@scale, great service

Altiscale's Features

  • Hadoop Dialtone
  • “Infinite” Hadoop
  • A Proactive Hadoop Helpdesk
  • Predictable, Hadoop-based pricing

Altiscale Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Altiscale?
Google BigQuery
Run super-fast, SQL-like queries against terabytes of data in seconds, using the processing power of Google's infrastructure. Load data with ease. Bulk load your data using Google Cloud Storage or stream it in. Easy access. Access BigQuery by using a browser tool, a command-line tool, or by making calls to the BigQuery REST API with client libraries such as Java, PHP or Python.
Amazon Redshift
It is optimized for data sets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.
Snowflake
Snowflake eliminates the administration and management demands of traditional data warehouses and big data platforms. Snowflake is a true data warehouse as a service running on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—no infrastructure to manage and no knobs to turn.
Amazon EMR
It is used in a variety of applications, including log analysis, data warehousing, machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics.
Stitch
Stitch is a simple, powerful ETL service built for software developers. Stitch evolved out of RJMetrics, a widely used business intelligence platform. When RJMetrics was acquired by Magento in 2016, Stitch was launched as its own company.
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