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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
8th
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
78
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (5th), Managed NoSQL Databases (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is 2.4%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB is 23.3%, down from 27.2% 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

"We also really like the Cloudera community. You can have any question and will have your answer within a few hours."
"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."
"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is that it is easy to install and to work with. It starts with the installation and from there on the management is very simple and centralized."
"The solution is stable."
"The data science aspect of the solution is valuable."
"The search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"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."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the enterprise data platform."
"We find the query and speed very valuable."
"In our case, it is most important to have redundancy."
"The installation is very stable."
"like its performance and the stability. It's very stable and, performance-wise, it's really great."
"The reports are useful for controlling the load of our whole architecture."
"It is very fast - faster than an SQL or MySQL Server."
"One of the most valuable features of MongoDB is it is Its open source."
"The most valuable feature of MongoDB is the ease of connections, aggregation, and queries."
 

Cons

"The security of this solution could be improved. There should also be a way to basically have a blockchain enabled storage with the HDFS."
"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."
"Cloudera's support is extremely bad and cannot be relied on."
"The one thing that we struggled with predominately was support. Because it was relatively new, support was always a big issue and I think it's still a bit of an ongoing concern with the team currently managing it."
"The governance aspect of the solution should be improved."
"The Cloudera training has deteriorated significantly."
"The user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"The competitors provide better functionalities."
"It could be more stable. It would be better if it were more user-friendly like Oracle, which is very easy. For example, creating an index is simple in Oracle. In MongoDB, it's quite challenging to do that. Performance could be better. It's fast and good, but you cannot put every application that you would like to in MongoDB."
"Data encryption is possible using third-party tools but they should have their own encryption capability built-in to this solution."
"They could improve the UI and the analytics part."
"The dashboard is an area of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"I would like to see the scalability and security improved."
"I feel that most people don't know a lot about MongoDB, so maybe they could add some more documentation and tutorials."
"I have found the solution difficult to operate as an administrator."
"MongoDB should support TypeScript."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive."
"The price is very high. The solution is expensive."
"It is an expensive product."
"The tool is not expensive."
"The product’s price depends from project to project."
"The solution is fairly expensive."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive, with support costs involved."
"The solution is expensive."
"I believe that the licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"We are using the Community Edition of MongoDB."
"It is rather expensive."
"MongoDB is an open-source product."
"We use the open-source version, which is available to use free of charge."
"The pricing is favorable if you opt to install MongoDB on an Amazon EC2 instance as you won't have to pay for the extra Atlas services and can instead manage the scaling yourself. This allows for a cost-effective solution and using MongoDB on a small scale, I have been able to utilize it for free."
"I only used the open-source version."
"The solution is open source so is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
15%
Educational Organization
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
18%
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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37signals, Adconion,adgooroo, Aggregate Knowledge, AMD, Apollo Group, Blackberry, Box, BT, CSC
Facebook, MetLife, City of Chicago, Expedia, eBay, Google
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