Azure Data Lake Analytics Alternatives

I've been using Athena for a long time; it's a great data query service that makes it easy to understand the flow.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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