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Azure HDInsight Reviews & Product Details

User Insights

Average based on 17 real user reviews.

Verified User in Accounting
UA
Verified User in Accounting
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Thinking without thought"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

If i had to be completely honest i love how the system allows me to be lazy.. it simply does all the work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

It takes a little while to get used to but that’s not really a negative Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
UE
Verified User in Education Management
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Fabulous software!"
4/5
What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

The software is cost-effective for my organization's open source analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

Sometimes it lags, but it truly hasn't been a big deal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
UR
Verified User in Retail
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great product when we used it"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

Awesome product for open source analytics. Easy Fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

If I had to say anything here it would be the cost for enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pranamesh C.
PC
Pranamesh C.
Graduate Research Assistant
Civil Engineering
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Effective for performing HDFS job in cloud"
4/5
What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

Simple to setup a cluster and use whenever is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

It is very costly to run MapReduce jobs in cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"HDInsigh"
5/5
What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

Great collection of open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, LLAP, Kafka, Storm, R, etc. Great ETL capability! Best cloud platform for IoT. Great flexible pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

Nothing in particular, but would like more built in tools for managed services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to use but has some flaws"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

Azure is a fantastic platform for monitoring performance. Everything is right at your fingertips, and is easy to access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

It's a little training intensive. It usually took so long to teach clients how to use it that it was easier to simply control it for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Calvin Loan X.
CX
Calvin Loan X.
Senior Information Technology Analyst
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Hadoop Hive on Azure!"
4/5
What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

Azure has a tremendous selection of built-in deployment tool for virtual machines and servers in the cloud. The marketplace is divided into Compute, Networking, Storage, Web+Mobile, Databases, Intelligence/Analytics, IoE, Security, etc. For the sake of my project, Hadoop Hortonworks came standardized. Little setup and configuration is needed on the user side, other than choosing the amount of cpu/nodes you required and what the purposes of the VM will be. Customization can be done during the initial setup or after it's completed (for instance specifying an static IP address). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

There were times that terminating (shutting down) a virtual machines did not succeed properly. In which case, the VM would still run in the background and you will continuously billed for the time that your server is running. I learned this the hard way and I would wait on the browser screen until the termination of the server is complete and then shut off the browser window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing

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