We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and IBM Spectrum Computing 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 search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent."
"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."
"We had a data warehouse before all the data. We can process a lot more data structures."
"Provides a viable open-source solution for enterprise implementations and reliable, intelligent data analysis."
"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there are a lot of things that need to improve. I believe they are working on that."
"I don't see any performance issues."
"Easy to operate and use."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."
"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."
"The user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"The price of this solution could be lowered."
"The security of this solution could be improved. There should also be a way to basically have a blockchain enabled storage with the HDFS."
"The competitors provide better functionalities."
"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."
"They should focus on upgrading their technical capabilities in the market."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"The governance aspect of the solution should be improved."
"Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."
"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."
"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."
"We have not been able to use deduplication."
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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews while IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 7th in Hadoop with 6 reviews. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 8.0, while IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8. 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 IBM Spectrum Computing writes "Provides stable backup for our databases and has good technical support ". Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with Amazon EMR, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, MongoDB and Cassandra, whereas IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic. See our Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs. IBM Spectrum Computing report.
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