Amazon EMR vs Google BigQuery vs Qubole

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Amazon EMR

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Google BigQuery

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Qubole

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Pros of Amazon EMR
Pros of Google BigQuery
Pros of Qubole
  • 15
    On demand processing power
  • 12
    Don't need to maintain Hadoop Cluster yourself
  • 7
    Hadoop Tools
  • 6
    Elastic
  • 4
    Backed by Amazon
  • 3
    Flexible
  • 3
    Economic - pay as you go, easy to use CLI and SDKs
  • 2
    Don't need a dedicated Ops group
  • 1
    Massive data handling
  • 1
    Great support
  • 28
    High Performance
  • 25
    Easy to use
  • 22
    Fully managed service
  • 19
    Cheap Pricing
  • 16
    Process hundreds of GB in seconds
  • 12
    Big Data
  • 11
    Full table scans in seconds, no indexes needed
  • 8
    Always on, no per-hour costs
  • 6
    Good combination with fluentd
  • 4
    Machine learning
  • 1
    Easy to manage
  • 0
    Easy to learn
  • 13
    Simple UI and autoscaling clusters
  • 10
    Feature to use AWS Spot pricing
  • 7
    Optimized Spark, Hive, Presto, Hadoop 2, HBase clusters
  • 7
    Real-time data insights through Spark Notebook
  • 6
    Hyper elastic and scalable
  • 6
    Easy to manage costs
  • 6
    Easy to configure, deploy, and run Hadoop clusters
  • 4
    Backed by Amazon
  • 4
    Gracefully Scale up & down with zero human intervention
  • 2
    All-in-one platform
  • 2
    Backed by Azure

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Cons of Amazon EMR
Cons of Google BigQuery
Cons of Qubole
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      You can't unit test changes in BQ data
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      What is Amazon EMR?

      It is used in a variety of applications, including log analysis, data warehousing, machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics.

      What is 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.

      What is Qubole?

      Qubole is a cloud based service that makes big data easy for analysts and data engineers.

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      Amazon EC2
      It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
      Hadoop
      The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.
      Amazon DynamoDB
      With it , you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available distributed database cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.
      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.
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