I am not updated with the licensing cost, but you need to pay for a license if purchased from Cloudera.

If my company can use the cloud version of Apache Hadoop, particularly the cloud storage feature, it would be easier and would cost less because an on-premises deployment has a higher cost during storage, for example, though I don't know exactly how much Apache Hadoop costs.

We just use the free version.

I am not sure about the price, but in terms of usability and utility of the software as a whole, I would rate it a three and a half to four out of five.

We don't directly pay for it. Our clients pay for it, and they usually don't complain about the price. So, it is probably acceptable.

Not much advice as pricing and licensing is handled at an enterprise level.

However do take into consider that data storage and compute capacity scale differently and hence purchasing a "boxed" / 'all-in-one" solution (software and hardware) might not be the best idea.

The price of Apache Hadoop could be less expensive.

It's open source.

We normally do not suggest any specific distributions. When it comes to cloud, our suggestion would be to choose different types of instances offered by Amazon cloud, as we are technology partners of Amazon for cost savings. For all our PoCs, we stick to the default distribution.

Best in pricing and licensing depends on the flavors, but remember it is only good if you have very large data set which cannot be handled by traditional RDBMS.

The price could be better. Hortonworks no longer exists, and Cloudera killed the free version of Hadoop.

We originally built on Hortonworks tech which didn't require any licensing, but that is getting discontinued in 2022, so it's been proposed we move to Cloudera which will have licensing costs associated with it.

The solution isn't cheap. It's quite costly.

There are no licensing costs involved, hence money is saved on the software infrastructure.

It’s free and it is open source.