G2 Vendor Directory

Hadoop HDFS vs. AWS Lake Formation

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

MetricHadoop HDFS

by The Apache Software Foundation

AWS Lake Formation

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.44.4
Review count14138
Ease of use7.98.9
Ease of setup7.48.7
Quality of support8.18.6
Meets requirements8.89.0
NPS54.61538563.636364
Small Business21.4%42.1%
Mid-Market22.9%23.7%
Enterprise55.7%34.2%
Total page views100131
Total LLM citations201387

Hadoop HDFS

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a scalable and fault-tolerant file system designed to manage large datasets across clusters of commodity hardware. As a core component of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, HDFS enables efficient storage and retrieval of vast amounts of data, making it ideal for big data applications. Key Features and Functionality: - Fault Tolerance: HDFS replicates data blocks across multiple nodes, ensuring data availability and resilience against hardware failures.

Pros

  • Large Datasets
  • Data Storage
  • Data Security
  • Data Processing

AWS Lake Formation

AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service to build, manage, secure, and share data in data lakes in days. You can centralize security and governance, and enable data sharing across the organization.

Pros