Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs IBM Spectrum Computing comparison

"The tool can be deployed using different container technologies, which makes it very scalable."

"It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products."

"Provides a viable open-source solution for enterprise implementations and reliable, intelligent data analysis."

"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."

"Cloudera, as a whole, is designed to provide organizations with solutions for big data."

"The solution is stable."

"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."

"IBM's ability to cluster compute resources is impressive, with built-in support for scenarios like VR and active-active configurations,"

"Easy to operate and use."

"The comparison was challenging, but the IBM Spectrum Scale offered a balanced solution. Our engineers rated itsanalytics capabilities equally high as Pure Storage. For workload management, Spectrum Computing provided effective solutions that met our needs. Workload management is part of a complete solution that uses different tools. There were the cloud and HPC parts; within HPC, there were parts like liquid cooling, simple computing, storage, and orchestration. The orchestration team handled the workload management."

"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."

"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."

"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."

"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."

"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."

"The areas of improvement depend on the scale of the project. For banking customers, security features and an essential budget for commercial licenses would be the top priority. Data regulation could be the most crucial for a project with extensive data or an extra use case."

"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there is a lot of things that need to improve."

"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 dashboard could be improved."

"The governance aspect of the solution should be improved."

"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."

"Cloudera's support is extremely bad and cannot be relied on."

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

"Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud."

"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."

"We have not been able to use deduplication."

"IBM's sales and support structure can be challenging."

"In Pakistan, IBM's disadvantage is the lack of OEM support and presence."

"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."

"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."

"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."

"The solution is expensive."

"It is an expensive product."

"The tool is not expensive."

"Cloudera requires a license to use."

"The tool is expensive...For the SMB market or customers whose environments are not that complex and do not have multiple systems running, Cloudera might not be a good option."

"The price could be better for the product."

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

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

"This solution is expensive."

"Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market."