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1. Amazon Athena

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.4

Athena has been easy to use to query our long term event data storage

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2. Amazon EMR

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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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3. HPE Data Fabric Software

By Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

4.3

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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4. Azure Data Lake Store

4.4

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

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5. FusionInsight Big Data Platform

4.9

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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6. IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop

By IBM

4

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

4.3

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

4.2

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

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