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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs Netezza Analytics comparison

Cloudera and IBM are both solutions in the Hadoop category. Cloudera is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3, while IBM is ranked #11. Cloudera holds a 25.7% mindshare in H, compared to IBM’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Cloudera users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of IBM users who would recommend it.
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92% willing to recommend
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76% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and Netezza Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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
49
Ranking in other categories
NoSQL Databases (8th)
Netezza Analytics
Ranking in Hadoop
11th
Average Rating
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
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Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Hadoop category, the mindshare of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is 25.7%, up from 22.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Netezza Analytics is 1.5%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Miodrag-Stanic - PeerSpot reviewer
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We switched to Airflow because Cloudera is outdated.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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Shiv Subramaniam Koduvayur - PeerSpot reviewer
A robust solution with good support, but a better GUI for database management is needed
The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this solution is that a lot of evaluation should be done before starting. Also, we needed to put a lot of effort into understanding the different functions that the product offers. This allows you to best leverage the capability of the product. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product is completely secure."
"Customer service and support were able to fix whatever the issue was."
"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 as a whole is good."
"The scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent."
"Cloudera, as a whole, is designed to provide organizations with solutions for big data."
"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."
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"The need for administration involvement is quite limited on the solution."
"It is a back end for our SSIS, MicroStrategy,, Tableau. All of these are connecting to get the data. To do so we are also using our analytics which is built on the data."
"For me, as an end-user, everything that I do on the solution is simple, clear, and understandable."
"Data compression. It was relatively impressive. I think at some point we were getting 4:1 compression if not more."
"The performance of the solution is its most valuable feature. The solution is easy to administer as well. It's very user-friendly. On the technical side, the architecture is simple to understand and you don't need too many administrators to handle the solution."
"Speed contributes to large capacity."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
 

Cons

"The price of this solution could be lowered."
"The performance of some analytics engines provided by Cloudera is not that good."
"The user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"The procedure for operations could be simplified."
"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."
"Currently, we are using many other tools such as Spark and Blade Job to improve the performance."
"The solution is not fit for on-premise distributions."
"The pricing needs to improve."
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"I'm not sure of IBM's roadmap currently, as the solution is coming up on its end of life."
"In-DB processing with SAS Analytics, since this is supposed to be an analytics server so the expectation is there."
"The most valuable features of this solution are robustness and support."
"This product is being discontinued from IBM, and I would like to have some kind of upgrade available."
"The Analytics feature should be simplified."
"The solution could implement more reporting tools and networking utilities."
"Disaster recovery support. Because it was an appliance, and if you wanted to support disaster recovery, you needed to buy two."
"The hardware has a risk of failure. They need to improve this."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive."
"The solution is fairly expensive."
"The solution is expensive."
"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 tool is not expensive."
"It is an expensive product."
"I haven't bought a license for this solution. I'm only using the Apache license version."
"The price is very high. The solution is expensive."
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"Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."
"For me, mainly, it reduces my costs. It's not only the appliance cost. There are also support costs and a maintenance costs. It does reduce the costs very drastically."
"The annual licensing fees are twenty-two percent of the product cost."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
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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.
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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...
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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. ...
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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.
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IBM Netezza Analytics is an embedded, purpose-built, advanced analytics platform that empowers analytic enterprises to meet and exceed their business demands. As features, it can predict with more accuracy, deliver predictions faster and respond rapidly to changes.
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