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"The product is completely secure.""The product as a whole is good.""The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent.""The solution is stable.""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.""The main advantage is the storage is less expensive.""Very good end-to-end security features.""Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."

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"Speed contributes to large capacity.""The most valuable feature is the performance.""The performance of the solution is its most valuable feature. The solution is easy to administer as well. It's very user-friendly. On the technical side, the architecture is simple to understand and you don't need too many administrators to handle the solution.""For me, as an end-user, everything that I do on the solution is simple, clear, and understandable.""It is a back end for our SSIS, MicroStrategy,, Tableau. All of these are connecting to get the data. To do so we are also using our analytics which is built on the data.""Data compression. It was relatively impressive. I think at some point we were getting 4:1 compression if not more.""The need for administration involvement is quite limited on the solution."

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"There are multiple bugs when we update.""There is a maximum of a one-gigabyte block size, which is an area of storage that can be improved upon.""There are better solutions out there that have more features than this one.""It could be faster and more user-friendly.""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 governance aspect of the solution should be improved.""This is a very expensive solution.""The competitors provide better functionalities."

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"The most valuable features of this solution are robustness and support.""I'm not sure of IBM's roadmap currently, as the solution is coming up on its end of life.""In-DB processing with SAS Analytics, since this is supposed to be an analytics server so the expectation is there.""The hardware has a risk of failure. They need to improve this.""The Analytics feature should be simplified.""Administration of this product is too tough. It's very complex because of the tools which it's missing.""This product is being discontinued from IBM, and I would like to have some kind of upgrade available.""Disaster recovery support. Because it was an appliance, and if you wanted to support disaster recovery, you needed to buy two."

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  • "When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive."
  • "The price could be better for the product."
  • "I haven't bought a license for this solution. I'm only using the Apache license version."
  • "Cloudera requires a license to use."
  • "Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive, with support costs involved."
  • "I wouldn't recommend CDH to others because of its high cost."
  • "The price is very high. The solution is expensive."
  • "The solution is expensive."
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  • "Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."
  • "For me, mainly, it reduces my costs. It's not only the appliance cost. There are also support costs and a maintenance costs. It does reduce the costs very drastically."
  • "The annual licensing fees are twenty-two percent of the product cost."
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    Overview
    Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is the world's most complete, tested, and popular distribution of Apache Hadoop and related projects. CDH is 100% Apache-licensed open source and is the only Hadoop solution to offer unified batch processing, interactive SQL, and interactive search, and role-based access controls. More enterprises have downloaded CDH than all other such distributions combined.
    IBM Netezza Analytics is an embedded, purpose-built, advanced analytics platform that empowers analytic enterprises to meet and exceed their business demands. As features, it can predict with more accuracy, deliver predictions faster and respond rapidly to changes.
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    37signals, Adconion,adgooroo, Aggregate Knowledge, AMD, Apollo Group, Blackberry, Box, BT, CSC
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    Financial Services Firm26%
    Computer Software Company22%
    Insurance Company15%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Educational Organization9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise56%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 1st in Hadoop with 46 reviews while Netezza Analytics is ranked 11th in Hadoop. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 7.8, while Netezza Analytics is rated 7.4. 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 Netezza Analytics writes "ARULES() function is the fastest implementation of the associations algorithm (a priori or tree) I have worked with". Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with Amazon EMR, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, Cassandra and MongoDB, whereas Netezza Analytics is most compared with Spark SQL and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.

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