Top Amazon Athena Alternatives & Competitors 2026

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1. Amazon EMR

4.4

EMR provides high compute capacity for our data processing needs. We have several models being executed on EMR using Pyspark

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2. HPE Data Fabric Software

By Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

4.3

(37 Ratings)

Nice optimization with MapR-FS (over old and limited HDFS) and cool feature of securing with encryption at directory level not the entire drive.

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3. Azure Data Lake Store

By Microsoft

4.4

(26 Ratings)

Efficient and scalable platform for all our big data analytics needs.

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4. FusionInsight Big Data Platform

By Huawei

4.9

(19 Ratings)

it is a fast and reliable solution that combines the great Data utility, storage and data analysis features.It supports multi-dimensional comparisons as well as high-performance analysis and querying.

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5. Google Cloud Platform

By Google

4.6

(16 Ratings)

GCP is very powerful distributed platform to share the files or store the file. We can easily store and share the file to other with privacy which one has access of the bucket. It is much easier while cluster job execution.

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6. IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop

By IBM

(11 Ratings)

this product helped out in creating ETL pipelines and in setting basic main node and data node architecture.

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7. Azure Data Lake Analytics

By Microsoft

4.3

(6 Ratings)

Very good and it helpful great product The data lake analytics tool is good, and provides loads of compute power to speed up processing time

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8. Hortonworks Sandbox

By Cloudera

4.2

(6 Ratings)

If you want to try or learn big data, this is an option you can consider.

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1. Amazon EMR

2. HPE Data Fabric Software

3. Azure Data Lake Store

4. FusionInsight Big Data Platform

5. Google Cloud Platform

6. IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop

7. Azure Data Lake Analytics

8. Hortonworks Sandbox

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