I recommend a mature decision-making model. Assess your specific needs and use cases. If HDP suits your requirements, use it. Otherwise, there are many advanced options available. Review and choose the best one for your use case.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

I simply love this technology when it comes to new developments. And I've been working with it for the past twelve to thirteen years. However, with the emergence of new technologies, there might be a chance that I would reduce one point because there's room for improvement.  

I would rate Hortonworks Data Platform an eight out of ten. The solution delivers on its promises, and Hortonworks provides a sandbox for testing before making a purchase.

The maintenance requires a lot of people, including the DRE and IRE teams.

It is not practical for most organizations that lack large amounts of resources to maintain their own data platform. The Hortonworks Data Platform makes it easier for such organizations.

We're a customer and end-user.

We are not using the latest version. We have to upgrade it too, which that's why we are looking at Cloudera now.

Hortonworks is at end of life. They are not adding new things to this, so everything will be Cloudera now. 

I'd rate it seven out of ten.

I recommend Hortonworks Data Platform to others and rate it an eight out of ten.

It is important to note that the IT team has to support the product. We are not the IT team so if we have to scale it, someone has to be able to do that administrative job of adding another server and managing the distribution of the data across all the servers. To work with this, you need to have that skill set within the IT department.  

On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate Hortonworks Data Platform as an eight or nine out-of-ten. It is meeting a need.  

In short, I recommend this product simply because Hortonworks is the only distribution that runs on Linux and Windows Servers.

The solution is an open-source project. If you don't want to use their professional support services, you don't pay anything for Hortonworks and its solutions. When you want to call there or use its user interface, it's paid. This is why prefer Hortonworks solutions in my projects.

I would rate this solution 10 out of 10.

This is a good product, but we still have some issues with backup, and the performance monitors that we install on every system. There may be solutions, but we're struggling to integrate them.

This is a product that I recommend. It's a solution that comes at a lower price, and it works well if you don't have expectations that it will behave like a much more expensive system.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Be sure that the product is necessary for the situation.

If you wish to use this solution, make sure you compare it with some other solutions first to make sure it's right for your needs. 

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of nine.

Hadoop is complex. It takes a dedicated approach from individuals with a broad range of technology skills and commitment to overcome challenges that do not normally present themselves in well-established technologies.

Study, analyze, and compare with other big data platforms features according to your requirements before choosing the appropriate one.

It is the best in terms of product vision and actual delivery.

You need to be tech savvy.

Take your time and script as much as you can so that all base images are the same.

Make sure you understand what happens under the hood. Out-of-the-box tools are sub-par. Customisation is the way to go for now.

Firstly perform a POC to learn and to get an idea of the load of your future applications. Then, you should be able to correctly design the need infrastructure.

I would suggest that if you are implementing this at an enterprise level, the support is compulsory. Additionally having a high degree of patience is key, as this is open source and road bumps can be frequent when moving at a fast pace.

We provide services for product implementation, so people looking for such products can contact me.

Product is good. Reason I gave a rating of eight is that their community is very large and relatively very quick in bug fixes.

It's a great company with a great product employing dedicated people.