We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and Hortonworks Data Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Hadoop solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is that I can use CDH for almost all use cases across all industries, including the financial sector, public sector, private retailers, and so on."
"In terms of scalability, if you have enough hardware you can scale out. Scalability doesn't have any issues."
"Provides a viable open-source solution for enterprise implementations and reliable, intelligent data analysis."
"Customer service and support were able to fix whatever the issue was."
"With a cluster available, you can manage the security layer using the shared SDX - it provides flexibility."
"The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent."
"The data science aspect of the solution is valuable."
"The file system is a valuable feature."
"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."
"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"The data platform is pretty neat. The workflow is also really good."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"The Hortonworks solution is so stable. It is working as a production system, without any error, without any downtime. If I have downtime, it is mostly caused by the hardware of the computers."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"We use it for data science activities."
"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there is a lot of things that need to improve."
"The procedure for operations could be simplified."
"The one thing that we struggled with predominately was support. Because it was relatively new, support was always a big issue and I think it's still a bit of an ongoing concern with the team currently managing it."
"The tool's ability to be deployed on a cloud model is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Without the big data environment, we cannot store all of this data live. We have billions of records and terabytes of storage to be used. It's not an option actually for us to have a big data environment."
"The initial setup of Cloudera is difficult."
"The governance aspect of the solution should be improved."
"The price of this solution could be lowered."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."
"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
"Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases."
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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews while Hortonworks Data Platform is ranked 6th in Hadoop with 25 reviews. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 8.0, while Hortonworks Data Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop writes "Good end-to-end security features and we like that it's cloud independent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hortonworks Data Platform writes "Good for secure containerization, and governance capabilities ". Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with Amazon EMR, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, MongoDB and Cassandra, whereas Hortonworks Data Platform is most compared with Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, Cloudera DataFlow and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric. See our Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs. Hortonworks Data Platform report.
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