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We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and InfluxDB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two NoSQL Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is that it is easy to install and to work with. It starts with the installation and from there on the management is very simple and centralized.""The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent.""It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products.""CDH has a wide variety of proprietary tools that we use, like Impala. So from that perspective, it's quite useful as opposed to something open-source. We get a lot of value from Cloudera's proprietary tools.""Very good end-to-end security features.""The search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution.""We also really like the Cloudera community. You can have any question and will have your answer within a few hours.""The product as a whole is good."

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"The most valuable features of InfluxDB are the documentation and performance, and the good plugins metrics in the ecosystem.""InfluxDB's best feature is that it's a cloud offering. Other good features include its time-series DB, fast time-bulk queries, and window operations.""The solution is very powerful.""The most valuable features are aggregating the data and integration with Graphana for monitoring.""In our case, it started with a necessity to fill the gap that we had in monitoring. We had very reactive monitoring without trend analysis and without some advanced features. We were able to implement them by using a time series database. We are able to have all the data from applications, logs, and systems, and we can use a simple query language to correlate all the data and make things happen, especially with monitoring. We could more proactively monitor our systems and our players' trends.""InfluxDB is a database where you can insert data. However, it would be best if you had different components for alerting, data sending, and visualization. You need to install tools to collect data from servers. It must be installed on Windows or Linux servers. During installation, ensure that the configuration file is correct to prevent issues. Once data is collected, it can be sent to InfluxDB. For visualization, you can use open-source tools like Grafana.""The user interface is well-designed and easy to use. It provides a clear overview of the data, making it simple to understand the information at hand.""The most valuable feature of the solution is we can use InfluxDB to integrate with and plug into any other tools."

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Cons
"The pricing needs to improve.""Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop has a limited feature list and a lot of costs involved.""While the deployed product is generally functional, there are instances where it presents difficulties.""Without the big data environment, we cannot store all of this data live. We have billions of records and terabytes of storage to be used. It's not an option actually for us to have a big data environment.""The governance aspect of the solution should be improved.""The price of this solution could be lowered.""The initial setup of Cloudera is difficult.""They should focus on upgrading their technical capabilities in the market."

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"The error logging capability can be improved because the logs are not very informative.""InfluxDB cannot be used for high-cardinality data. It's also difficult and time-consuming to write queries, and there are some issues with bulk API.""I've tried both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, and each has its limitations.""In terms of features that I would like to see or have, in the community version, some features are not available. I would like to have clustering and authentication in the community version.""InfluxDB can improve by including new metrics on other technologies. They had some changes recently to pool data from endpoints but the functionality is not good enough in the industry.""The solution doesn't have much of a user interface.""The solution's UI can be more user-friendly.""InfluxDB is generally stable, but we've encountered issues with the configuration file in our ticket stack. For instance, a mistake in one of the metrics out of a hundred KPIs can disrupt data collection for all KPIs. This happens because the agent stops working if there's an issue with any configuration part. To address this, it is essential to ensure that all configurations are part of the agent's EXE file when provided. This makes it easier to package the agent for server installation and ensures all KPIs are available from the server. Additionally, the agent cannot encrypt and decrypt passwords for authentication, which can be problematic when monitoring URLs or requiring authentication tokens. This requires additional scripting and can prolong service restart times."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive."
  • "The price could be better for the product."
  • "I haven't bought a license for this solution. I'm only using the Apache license version."
  • "Cloudera requires a license to use."
  • "Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive, with support costs involved."
  • "I wouldn't recommend CDH to others because of its high cost."
  • "The price is very high. The solution is expensive."
  • "The solution is expensive."
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  • "We are using the open-source version of InfluxDB."
  • "InfluxDB is open-source, but there are additional costs for scaling."
  • "InfluxDB recently increased its price. It is very expensive now."
  • "The tool is an open-source product."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product comes with an annual subscription, which is expensive. They are bundling technologies together. You have to pay an extra cost if you need the technology out of the base license.
    Top Answer:The user interface is well-designed and easy to use. It provides a clear overview of the data, making it simple to understand the information at hand.
    Top Answer:There were concerns about data loss due to infrastructure limitations. We couldn't back up data locally if we were using the InfluxDB cloud, which was a major drawback. So, InfluxDB could improve its… more »
    Top Answer:Initially, we used Prometheus and Grafana for alerts. But, it wasn't feasible to handle logs and other types of databases. We then switched to InfluxDB due to its user interface, which allowed us to… more »
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    Overview
    Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is the world's most complete, tested, and popular distribution of Apache Hadoop and related projects. CDH is 100% Apache-licensed open source and is the only Hadoop solution to offer unified batch processing, interactive SQL, and interactive search, and role-based access controls. More enterprises have downloaded CDH than all other such distributions combined.

    InfluxDB is open-source software that helps developers and enterprises alike to collect, store, process, and visualize time series data and to build next-generation applications. InfluxDB provides monitoring and insight on IoT, application, system, container, and infrastructure quickly and easily without complexities or compromises in scale, speed, or productivity.

    InfluxDB has become a popular insight system for unified metrics and events enabling the most demanding SLAs. InfluxDB is used in just about every type of industry across a wide range of use cases, including network monitoring, IoT monitoring, industrial IoT, and infrastructure and application monitoring.

    InfluxDB offers its users:

    • Infrastructure and application monitoring: Collect, process, and analyze real-time data from edge devices to help optimize distributed infrastructure. 
    • IoT monitoring and analytics: InfluxDB is designed to store large volumes of time series data and quickly perform real-time analysis on that data. Gain insights from all the sensor data and use the collected data to create and perform automated tasks. 
    • Network monitoring: Manage responsive and high-performing networks with widely distributed resources.

    InfluxDB Benefits

    There are several benefits to using InfluxDB . Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • APIs and ready toolset: InfluxDB can be accessed via a set of powerful tools enabling users to get started quickly, with less programming required. This includes a REST API, extensive client libraries, a wide variety of open-source integrations, and Flux - a functional data scripting language for querying, analysis, and events. The InfluxDB API can be used to write data from edge devices to the InfluxDB instance 
    • Time series engine: Get any data - events, logs, traces - from any edge device - systems, sensors, queues, databases, and networks. This data is stored in a powerful and high-performing engine capable of ingesting millions of data points per second.
    • Community: InfluxDB has a large community of cloud and open-source developers ready to assist users. 
    • Ready-made templates: Use InfluxDB Templates, a set of tools with a packager and other ready monitoring solutions. These tools allow users to share their monitoring expertise with coworkers and other community members around the world. The Templates gallery offers available templates for some of the most popular tools and applications.
    • Enhanced UI: InfluxDB’s UI includes an explorer, dashboarding tools, and a script editor. Use it to easily browse the collected metric and event data and apply common transformations. The dashboarding tool comes with a variety of visualization options that help users view insights from the data. The script editor assists users to quickly master Flux with easily accessible examples, auto-completion, and real-time syntax checking.

    Reviews from Real Users

    InfluxDB stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its flexible integration options and its data aggregation feature.

    Shalauddin Ahamad S., a software engineer at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features are aggregating the data and the integration with Grafana for monitoring.”

    Sample Customers
    37signals, Adconion,adgooroo, Aggregate Knowledge, AMD, Apollo Group, Blackberry, Box, BT, CSC
    ebay, AXA, Mozilla, DiDi, LeTV, Siminars, Cognito, ProcessOut, Recommend, CATS, Smarsh, Row 44, Clustree, Bleemeo
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm26%
    Computer Software Company22%
    Insurance Company15%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Educational Organization9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Educational Organization9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs. InfluxDB
    March 2024
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    Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 5th in NoSQL Databases with 46 reviews while InfluxDB is ranked 4th in NoSQL Databases with 8 reviews. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 7.8, while InfluxDB is rated 7.6. 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 InfluxDB writes "A powerful, lightweight time series database with a simple query language and easy setup". Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with Amazon EMR, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, Cassandra and Vertica, whereas InfluxDB is most compared with MongoDB, Cassandra, Netdata, ScyllaDB and Couchbase. See our Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs. InfluxDB report.

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