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2,604 views|1,970 comparisons
94% willing to recommend
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66% willing to recommend
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We performed a comparison between Anaconda and Cloudera Data Science Workbench based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Science Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Anaconda vs. Cloudera Data Science Workbench Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable feature is the set of libraries that are used to support the functionality that we require.""The tool's most valuable feature is its cloud-based nature, allowing accessibility from anywhere. Additionally, using Jupyter Notebook makes it easy to handle bugs and errors.""The notebook feature is an improvement over RStudio.""The most advantageous feature is the logic building.""I can use Anaconda for non-heavy tasks.""The product is responsive, sleek and has a beautiful interface that is pleasant to use. It helps users to easily share code.""With Anaconda Navigator, we have been able to use multiple IDEs such as JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, Visual Studio Code, and RStudio in one place. The platform-agnostic package manager, "Conda", makes life easy when it comes to managing and installing packages.""The virtual environment is very good."

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"I appreciate CDSW's ability to logically segregate environments, such as data, DR, and production, ensuring they don't interfere with each other. The deployment of machine learning is fast and easy to manage. Its API calls are also fast.""The Cloudera Data Science Workbench is customizable and easy to use."

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Cons
"A lot of people and companies are investing in creating automated data cleaning and processing environments. Anaconda is a bit behind in that area.""The solution would benefit from offering more automation.""The ability to schedule scripts for the building and monitoring of jobs would be an advantage for this platform.""The interface could be improved. Other solutions, like Visual Studio, have much better UI.""It also takes up a lot of space.""One thing that hurts the product is that the company is not doing more to advertise it as a solution and make it more well known.""One feature that I would like to see is being able to use a different language in a different cell, which would allow me to mix R and Python together.""Anaconda should be optimized for RAM consumption."

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"Running this solution requires a minimum of 12GB to 16GB of RAM.""The tool's MLOps is not good. It's pricing also needs to improve."

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  • "The licensing costs for Anaconda are reasonable."
  • "The product is open-source and free to use."
  • "My company uses the free version of the tool. There is also a paid version of the tool available."
  • "The tool is open-source."
  • "Anaconda is free to use, but in terms of hardware costs, you might need heavy GPUs to run CUDA and other demanding tasks."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The tool's most valuable feature is its cloud-based nature, allowing accessibility from anywhere. Additionally, using Jupyter Notebook makes it easy to handle bugs and errors.
    Top Answer:Anaconda is free to use, but in terms of hardware costs, you might need heavy GPUs to run CUDA and other demanding tasks, which can be expensive. It works on all systems and is not subscription-based.
    Top Answer:A lot of people and companies are investing in creating automated data cleaning and processing environments. Anaconda is a bit behind in that area. Maybe a graphical user interface where we can just… more »
    Top Answer:I appreciate CDSW's ability to logically segregate environments, such as data, DR, and production, ensuring they don't interfere with each other. The deployment of machine learning is fast and easy to… more »
    Top Answer:The tool's MLOps is not good. It's pricing also needs to improve.
    Top Answer:We have different use cases. Our banking use case uses machine learning to identify customer life events and recommend the best-suited card products. These machine-learning models are deployed in our… more »
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    Overview

    Anaconda makes it easy for you to install and maintain Python environments. Our development team tests to ensure compatibility of Python packages in Anaconda. We support and provide open source assurance for packages in Anaconda to mitigate your risk in using open source and meet your regulatory compliance requirements.

    Python is the fastest growing language for data science. Anaconda includes 720+ Python open source packages and now includes essential R packages. This powerful combination allows you to do everything you want from BI to advanced modeling on complex Big Data

    Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) makes secure, collaborative data science at scale a reality for the enterprise and accelerates the delivery of new data products. With CDSW, organizations can research and experiment faster, deploy models easily and with confidence, as well as rely on the wider Cloudera platform to reduce the risks and costs of data science projects. Access any data anywhere – from cloud object storage to data warehouses, CDSW provides connectivity not only to CDH but the systems your data science teams rely on for analysis.

    Sample Customers
    LinkedIn, NASA, Boeing, JP Morgan, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, DARPA, Microsoft, Amazon, HP, Cisco, Thomson Reuters, IBM, Bridgestone
    IQVIA, Rush University Medical Center, Western Union
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm27%
    Manufacturing Company18%
    Non Tech Company9%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm32%
    Healthcare Company10%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise5%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise81%
    Buyer's Guide
    Anaconda vs. Cloudera Data Science Workbench
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Anaconda vs. Cloudera Data Science Workbench and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Anaconda is ranked 13th in Data Science Platforms with 17 reviews while Cloudera Data Science Workbench is ranked 19th in Data Science Platforms with 2 reviews. Anaconda is rated 8.0, while Cloudera Data Science Workbench is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Anaconda writes "Offers free version and is helpful to handle small-scale workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudera Data Science Workbench writes "Useful for data science modeling but improvement is needed in MLOps and pricing ". Anaconda is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Amazon SageMaker, Microsoft Power BI and IBM SPSS Statistics, whereas Cloudera Data Science Workbench is most compared with Databricks, Amazon SageMaker, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Dataiku and Google Cloud Datalab. See our Anaconda vs. Cloudera Data Science Workbench report.

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