There are not many options that are comparable to Cloudera. There is another company that I think has been acquired by Hewlett-Packard but it doesn't offer the same components as Cloudera. I can't see any competitor that can give the same set of services from the data lake level up to Cloudera Machine Learning. 

Databricks has a Runtime version. It works well with the cloud.

We did consider other opportunities. Although we are quite comfortable with our current solution we may look at Hortonworks again, but that is not yet confirmed. We believe, from what we have read and what has been advertised, that Hortonworks and Cloudera are going to eventually merge and become one product. According to some sources, it has already happened.

We're simply trying to get the best of both worlds.

We didn't evaluate other options before choosing Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop.

We considered working with a few other companies, including IBM Bluemix.

Not really.

We looked at EMR, however Cloudera is better when using OnPrem.

There were two provider solutions that have been evaluated. However, the level of customer service and technical support from Cloudera was better than the first one, and the second solution licence pricing was higher compared to Cloudera’s pricing schema.

We also looked at Hortonworks, but chose Cloudera because of my familiarity with it.

Cloudera really has no competition.

Cloudera is a leader in providing distributions for Hadoop so it was no brainer for us to decide.

We compared it to Amazon EMR but found Cloudera Manager to be more functional.