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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs MongoDB comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Cloudera Distribution for H...
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Hadoop (2nd)
MongoDB
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (5th), Managed NoSQL Databases (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is 2.4%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB is 23.6%, down from 27.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
NoSQL Databases
 

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.
Hamidul Islam - PeerSpot reviewer
Lightweight with good flexibility and very fast performance for searching data
I used the solution in the production level to search data and create education-based tutorials for a project. We had 30 managers, senior architects, tech leads, and software engineers working on the project.  Currently, I use the solution for my personal work.  The solution has good flexibility…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent."
"The product as a whole is good."
"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."
"The most valuable feature is Kubernetes."
"Cloudera, as a whole, is designed to provide organizations with solutions for big data."
"The most valuable feature is Impala, the querying engine, which is very fast."
"Very good end-to-end security features."
"I like that MongoDB has a free version. You can also buy the enterprise edition, which is cheaper than Oracle."
"The most valuable features of MongoDB include the flexible schema for storing data, its replication capabilities with high availability through a replica set setup, and horizontal scalability using sharding."
"We can define security rules at the database level or the cluster level to grant or deny access to particular users."
"It is convenient to use because we can do manipulations with the JSON data that we get. There are also a lot of joins and associations with MongoDB, which makes it easy to use for us."
"The most valuable features of MongoDB are the variety of translations available and the ability to deploy it on the cloud is useful. The cloud users can access the data, work on the data, and if they want to import or manipulate some data they can."
"One of the first things I noticed when I had my first experience with MongoDB was how easy it was to use. I was expecting more difficulties or at least some challenges, but it was very, very easy to use. It's great technology, performs well, and is very convenient."
"MongoDB is fast and efficient."
"MongoDB has a simple data-loading interface."
 

Cons

"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop has a limited feature list and a lot of costs involved."
"The pricing needs to improve."
"Without the big data environment, we cannot store all of this data live. We have billions of records and terabytes of storage to be used. It's not an option actually for us to have a big data environment."
"They should focus on upgrading their technical capabilities in the market."
"The solution is not fit for on-premise distributions."
"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 security of this solution could be improved. There should also be a way to basically have a blockchain enabled storage with the HDFS."
"The competitors provide better functionalities."
"I think that MongoDB's search engine should be improved."
"The product's data consistency could be more efficient than traditional SQLs."
"It would be much more useful if I have an admin user and a password."
"MongoDB should support TypeScript."
"I feel that most people don't know a lot about MongoDB, so maybe they could add some more documentation and tutorials."
"You need integration with other tools to run the query in MongoDB."
"The solution can be a bit tough to set up if you don't have knowledge about how the database works."
"Data encryption is possible using third-party tools but they should have their own encryption capability built-in to this solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is fairly expensive."
"The pricing must be improved."
"Cloudera requires a license to use."
"I haven't bought a license for this solution. I'm only using the Apache license version."
"The price could be better for the product."
"The price is very high. The solution is expensive."
"I believe we pay for a three-year license."
"The product’s price depends from project to project."
"MongoDB is a free solution. We wanted to have high availability and the subscription cost was quite expensive because the basic one is free and then when you want to have some other replications or other features you will need to pay money. Overall the solution is expensive."
"MongoDB is an open-source solution."
"MongoDB is a bit expensive compared to its competitors."
"The product is affordable."
"The solution is open source so is free."
"MongoDB's pricing is not reasonable, but it is not as expensive as the others."
"I only used the open-source version."
"It's open-source."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
15%
Educational Organization
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
7%
University
6%
 

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 MongoDB?
MongoDB's approach to handling data in documents rather than traditional tables has been particularly beneficial.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MongoDB?
MongoDB is free of charge. that said, there is also a paid version. We use both free and paid versions.
What needs improvement with MongoDB?
The free tools, like MongoDB Compass, could be enhanced. This is especially relevant for the IDEs or similar tools.
 

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