We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and Pentaho Business Analytics 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 solution is stable."
"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."
"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there are a lot of things that need to improve. I believe they are working on that."
"The product as a whole is good."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the enterprise data platform."
"With a cluster available, you can manage the security layer using the shared SDX - it provides flexibility."
"The solution is reliable and stable, it fits our requirements."
"It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"There are better solutions out there that have more features than this one."
"The user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"The competitors provide better functionalities."
"The procedure for operations could be simplified."
"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."
"I would like to see an improvement in how the solution helps me to handle the whole cluster."
"It could be faster and more user-friendly."
"While the deployed product is generally functional, there are instances where it presents difficulties."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"The repository should be improved."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 19th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 8.0, while Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0. 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 Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with Amazon EMR, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, MongoDB and Cassandra, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and Tableau.
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