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."It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products."
"The data science aspect of the solution is valuable."
"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."
"The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent."
"The file system is a valuable feature."
"I don't see any performance issues."
"The search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Customer service and support were able to fix whatever the issue was."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"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."
"Easy to operate and use."
"The procedure for operations could be simplified."
"Currently, we are using many other tools such as Spark and Blade Job to improve the performance."
"The one thing that we struggled with predominately was support. Because it was relatively new, support was always a big issue and I think it's still a bit of an ongoing concern with the team currently managing it."
"The price of this solution could be lowered."
"While the deployed product is generally functional, there are instances where it presents difficulties."
"The pricing needs to improve."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"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."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"We have not been able to use deduplication."
"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."
"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."
"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."
"Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud."
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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 1st in Hadoop with 15 reviews while IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 7th in Hadoop with 2 reviews. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 7.8, 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 "One of the best tools in the data management and services area". Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with Amazon EMR, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, Cassandra and MongoDB, 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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