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."We also really like the Cloudera community. You can have any question and will have your answer within a few hours."
"The product as a whole is good."
"The solution is stable."
"The file system is a valuable feature."
"It is helpful to gather and process data."
"The search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"We're now able to store large volumes of data through Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop. We're able to push large volumes of data to the platform, and that used to be a challenge, especially when storing a terabyte of information. This is the area where Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop improved the organization."
"The solution is reliable and stable, it fits our requirements."
"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"The data platform is pretty neat. The workflow is also really good."
"Now, using this solution, it is much cheaper to have all of the data available for searching, not in real-time, but whenever there is a pending request."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"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."
"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."
"It would be useful if Cloudera had more tools like SQL Engines that offer the traditional relational database. We have to do a lot of work preparing the data outside Cloudera before getting it into the platform."
"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."
"The initial setup of Cloudera is difficult."
"There are multiple bugs when we update."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"They should focus on upgrading their technical capabilities in the market."
"The Cloudera training has deteriorated significantly."
"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."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases."
"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
"I would like to see more support for containers such as Docker and OpenShift."
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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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