G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon EMR vs. Azure Synapse Analytics

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

MetricAmazon EMR

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Azure Synapse Analytics

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.24.4
Review count7038
Ease of use8.59.0
Ease of setup8.88.8
Quality of support8.58.9
Meets requirements8.99.0
NPS40.32258159.459459
Small Business21.4%24.3%
Mid-Market20.0%43.2%
Enterprise58.6%32.4%
Total page views162361
Total LLM citations182566

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 Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics is a cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that leverages Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data.

Pros

  • Cost-Effective
  • Automation
  • Efficiency
  • Machine Learning
  • Unified Platform
  • Scaling