E-MapReduce (EMR) is a big data processing solution provided by Alibaba Cloud. EMR is developed based on open source Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. EMR allows you to use peripheral systems in the Hadoop and Spark ecosystems to analyze and process data with ease. EMR can also read data from or write data to other Alibaba Cloud storage systems and database systems, such as Object Storage Service (OSS) and ApsaraDB RDS.
Product introduction
Alibaba Cloud provides EMR on ECS, EMR on ACK, and EMR Serverless StarRocks to meet the business requirements of different users.
Item | Description |
EMR on ECS | When you create an EMR cluster, the EMR system deploys components of the open source Hadoop ecosystem on Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances based on your configurations and starts the components as services in the cluster. You can perform O&M operations on the services and ECS instances of the EMR cluster in the EMR console. For more information about EMR on ECS, see What is EMR on ECS? |
EMR on ACK | Before you use EMR on ACK, make sure that an ACK cluster is deployed. After the ACK cluster is deployed, you can create an EMR cluster to deploy big data components based on ACK resources and run the components in related containers. For more information about EMR on ACK, see What is EMR on ACK? |
Benefits
EMR on ECS
EMR allows you to easily deploy enterprise-level open source big data services, such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Kafka, and HBase.
All components in EMR are open source. EMR adapts to and optimizes open source components and provides higher performance than the open source versions of the components.
Preemptible instances can help reduce costs based on the time-based auto scaling capability.
Computing and storage are decoupled to support the elastic use of resources.
You can create or scale out a cluster within minutes. You do not need to manually deploy or start services.
EMR on ACK
Cost-effectiveness: You do not need to purchase ACK clusters.
Simplified O&M: An O&M system and a cluster management system are provided for both big data and online business.
Optimized user experience: The EMR console provides the following Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) models: EMR on ECS and EMR on ACK. You can seamlessly switch between the two models.
Deep integration: EMR on ACK adopts a cloud-native data lake architecture. The architecture integrates ACK to scale out computing resources without a limit.