We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, IBM Spectrum Computing, and SaltStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, Cloudera, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Hadoop."The product as a whole is good."
"The main advantage is the storage is less expensive."
"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."
"It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products."
"The search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent."
"Customer service and support were able to fix whatever the issue was."
"The data science aspect of the solution is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"Easy to operate and use."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."
"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."
"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop has a limited feature list and a lot of costs involved."
"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."
"It could be faster and more user-friendly."
"The areas of improvement depend on the scale of the project. For banking customers, security features and an essential budget for commercial licenses would be the top priority. Data regulation could be the most crucial for a project with extensive data or an extra use case."
"The pricing needs to improve."
"Cloudera's support is extremely bad and cannot be relied on."
"The competitors provide better functionalities."
"The solution is not fit for on-premise distributions."
"Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud."
"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."
"We have not been able to use deduplication."
"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"It is difficult to set up."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"Web UI."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
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