G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon EMR vs. Azure HDInsight

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon EMR

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Azure HDInsight

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.23.9
Review count7017
Ease of use8.58.3
Ease of setup8.88.3
Quality of support8.58.6
Meets requirements8.98.8
NPS40.32258114.285714
Small Business21.4%23.5%
Mid-Market20.0%35.3%
Enterprise58.6%41.2%
Total page views16288
Total LLM citations18234

Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR is a web-based service that simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to distribute and process vast amounts of data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Large Datasets
  • Data Integration

Azure HDInsight

HDInsight is a fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA.

Pros