Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs Hortonworks Data Platform comparison

Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs. Hortonworks Data Platform

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudera Distribution for H...

Ranking in Hadoop

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

NoSQL Databases (8th)

Hortonworks Data Platform

Ranking in Hadoop

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Open Source Databases (14th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (9th)

Featured Reviews

Miodrag-Stanic

Senior Architect at Yettel

You can manage all services from one place in an integrated manner

We switched to Airflow because Cloudera is outdated. It's not widely used. It would be good if we had the Spark 3.5. Spark is quite old. Cloudera is now offering an alternate solution as a replacement for AWS. AWS works badly with small files. The solution is not fit for on-premise distributions. It should be containerized so we can deploy it as containers within Kubernetes. We had one upgrade from CDH to CDP, which lasted for a long time. And I would expect with containerized deployment, it would be upgraded much more quickly than we had the experience.

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Prashant Singh

Vice President -Product Management at Paytm

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The file system is a valuable feature."

"The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent."

"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."

"The most valuable feature is Kubernetes."

"The product as a whole is good."

"We had a data warehouse before all the data. We can process a lot more data structures."

"The tool's most interesting features are the distributed file system and unstructured data processing capability. Because we have a lot of unstructured data, like XML and social media logs, these features make it more valuable than the usual data warehousing solutions."

"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."

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

"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."

"We use it for data science activities."

"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."

"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."

"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."

"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."

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

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Cons

"The Cloudera training has deteriorated significantly."

"The security of this solution could be improved. There should also be a way to basically have a blockchain enabled storage with the HDFS."

"The procedure for operations could be simplified."

"The initial setup of Cloudera is difficult."

"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop has a limited feature list and a lot of costs involved."

"Currently, we are using many other tools such as Spark and Blade Job to improve the performance."

"While the deployed product is generally functional, there are instances where it presents difficulties."

"The pricing needs to improve."

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"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."

"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."

"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."

"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."

"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."

"Security and workload management need improvement."

"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive."

"It is an expensive product."

"Cloudera requires a license to use."

"The product’s price depends from project to project."

"The solution is fairly expensive."

"The tool is not expensive."

"The price could be better for the product."

"I believe we pay for a three-year license."

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"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."

"It is priced well and it is affordable"

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

14%

Educational Organization

11%

Manufacturing Company

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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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Cloudera

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.

The Hortonworks Data Platform is acclaimed for its robust handling of big data, offering scalable solutions for data storage optimization and advanced analytics. Users benefit from its seamless processing of both streaming and batch data, and efficient maintenance of data lakes for improved governance. Key features include comprehensive security and seamless integration with existing analytics tools, significantly enhancing organizational efficiency and decision-making capabilities.

Sample Customers

37signals, Adconion,adgooroo, Aggregate Knowledge, AMD, Apollo Group, Blackberry, Box, BT, CSC

Mayo Clinic, Symantec, Progressive Insurance, Noble Energy, Cardinal Health, Rogers, Mercy, Neustar, TRUECar, T-Mobile

Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs. Hortonworks Data Platform