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Sr Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Hortonworks Data Platform
Dec 11, 2023
Good for secure containerization, and governance capabilities

Pros

"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."

Cons

"Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS."
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Vice President -Product Management at Paytm
Verified user of Hortonworks Data Platform
May 30, 2022
Product version discussed: 2.x
A good technology with an easy setup but is at end of life

Pros

"The product offers a fairly easy setup process. "

Cons

"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements. "
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Data Science and Data Engineering Leader | Senior Principal Data Scientist at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Hortonworks Data Platform
Oct 9, 2020
A modeling and analysis data platform that is inexpensive and stable

Pros

"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform. "

Cons

"The version control of the software is also an issue."
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Senior HPC and BigData Architect at Bitnet
Verified user of Hortonworks Data Platform
Jul 17, 2019
Provides a complete solution and just one user interface that can manage all the packages

Pros

"The Hortonworks solution is so stable. It is working as a production system, without any error, without any downtime. If I have downtime, it is mostly caused by the hardware of the computers."

Cons

"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
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Head of technical and projects at BI Dynamics Pty Ltd
Verified user of Hortonworks Data Platform
Sep 1, 2023
Helps with data management and has good scalability

Pros

"It is a scalable platform."

Cons

"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
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Senior Cloud Storage Engineer at Comcast Business
Verified user of Hortonworks Data Platform
Jul 30, 2023
Upgrades and patching are addressed by the solution, and they offer a sandbox for testing

Pros

"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."

Cons

"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
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CTO at a tech services company
Verified user of Hortonworks Data Platform
Apr 16, 2016
Product version discussed: 2.3
​The setup of hadoop was easy thanks to Ambari, but installing the security components was complex.
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Senior IT Officer- Head of Administration, System Administration Division for Unix and Linux Servers at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Hortonworks Data Platform
Jul 28, 2019
Product version discussed: 2.6.3, On-premise
A cost-effective alternative for managing our big data

Pros

"Now, using this solution, it is much cheaper to have all of the data available for searching, not in real-time, but whenever there is a pending request."

Cons

"I would like to see more support for containers such as Docker and OpenShift."