Hadoop Cluster and Amazon EMR

Accenture calculated the total cost of ownership of a bare-metal Hadoop cluster and derived the capacity of nine different cloud-based Hadoop clusters at the matched TCO. The performance of each option was then compared by running three real-world Hadoop applications.  The full report is here:

http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-hadoop-deployment-comparison.aspx

There report compares the performance of both a bare-metal Hadoop cluster and Amazon ElasticMapReduce (Amazon EMR).