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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs Hortonworks Data Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Cloudera Distribution for H...
Ranking in Hadoop
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
NoSQL Databases (7th)
Hortonworks Data Platform
Ranking in Hadoop
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (15th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (9th)
 

Featured Reviews

Shahan Rehman - PeerSpot reviewer
Can host multiple technologies and help businesses with their AI initiatives
The ease or difficulty in setting up the product depends on the environment of the customer where the tool is deployed. If a banking, industrial, or retail sector firm is taken into concentration, depending on how big of a database is maintained, including the applications that are to be hosted, the deployment process can range from a simple to a very complex phase, depending on the architecture. For Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, one has to go through the usual deployment process, like for any software product. You have to have different environments before going into production, like pre-production environments, test and dev environments. You install and configure all the components in the test environment and then test them on the pre-production environment. Once UAT is done, you move them to the production environment. In general, it's a critical product deployed in a company.
Prashant  Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
A good technology with an easy setup but is at end of life
The solution is fairly simple to set up. It's not too complex or difficult. If you know the solution, it's easy. However, there is a learning curve. If you don't know anything about it, it can be more complex. You can typically deploy it within a week. We have five or six people capable of handling a deployment.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"Cloudera, as a whole, is designed to provide organizations with solutions for big data."
"Provides a viable open-source solution for enterprise implementations and reliable, intelligent data analysis."
"The solution is reliable and stable, it fits our requirements."
"It is helpful to gather and process data."
"The most valuable feature is that I can use CDH for almost all use cases across all industries, including the financial sector, public sector, private retailers, and so on."
"It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products."
"The solution is stable."
"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."
"We use it for data science activities."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"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."
"It is a scalable platform."
"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

"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."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is not always completely stable in some cases, which can be a concern for big data solutions."
"The tool doesn't support reporting, and relational databases are still the major source of reporting data. Apache Iceberg will be launched soon within the Cloudera cluster for analytical purposes. The Cloudera Machine Learning aspect could be tuned and enhanced to enable us to host some predictive analytics machine learning and AI use cases."
"The user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"While the deployed product is generally functional, there are instances where it presents difficulties."
"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."
"There is a maximum of a one-gigabyte block size, which is an area of storage that can be improved upon."
"They should focus on upgrading their technical capabilities in the market."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"I would like to see more support for containers such as Docker and OpenShift."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is very high. The solution is expensive."
"I haven't bought a license for this solution. I'm only using the Apache license version."
"I believe we pay for a three-year license."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive, with support costs involved."
"When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive."
"The price could be better for the product."
"The pricing must be improved."
"It is an expensive product."
"It is priced well and it is affordable"
"Currently, we are using the product in a sandbox environment, and there is no licensing. We might choose a licensing option once we get the results."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
15%
Educational Organization
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
14%
University
9%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
The tool can be deployed using different container technologies, which makes it very scalable.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
The tool is expensive. Overall, it's not a cheap software tool, and that is why only large enterprises who are mature enough and have an architecture that is complex enough opt for Cloudera, as its...
What needs improvement with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
The tool doesn't support reporting, and relational databases are still the major source of reporting data. Apache Iceberg will be launched soon within the Cloudera cluster for analytical purposes. ...
What do you like most about Hortonworks Data Platform?
Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hortonworks Data Platform?
I haven't done a price analysis specifically for HDP. However, when it was first introduced as Hadoop 2.0, there were a few use cases where the price was quite high. It was particularly expensive f...
What needs improvement with Hortonworks Data Platform?
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. These platforms offer competitive storage solu...
 

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Hortonworks, HDP
 

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