Amazon EMR is described as 'The industry-leading cloud big data solution for petabyte-scale data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning using open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Amazon EMR for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, SaaS, Self-Hosted and Kubernetes apps. The best Amazon EMR alternative is Google Cloud Dataproc. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try ILUM or Gigasheet. Other great apps like Amazon EMR are Cloudera CDH, IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, Sybase IQ and Platfora.