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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs Oracle NoSQL comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Cloudera Distribution for H...
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Hadoop (2nd)
Oracle NoSQL
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is 4.5%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle NoSQL is 3.7%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop4.5%
Oracle NoSQL3.7%
Other91.8%
NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

SA
Head of Advaced Analytics & Intelligence; AGM at Alinma Bank
Integration of multiple features supports data analytics and processing
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop provides numerous features and capabilities combined into one platform.The solution offers power processing and supports different file systems and query engines. It provides parallel processing for handling many requests. The platform includes role-based access control in Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop. It secures the data itself and provides users with different roles and privileges.
SS
Support on banking at Aithent
Handles large data volumes effectively but connection issues require attention
The Oracle NoSQL solution is used primarily for storing data for our web applications. We work alongside the DBA team for this purpose, given that specific departments manage aspects of its use. We choose it specifically to handle large scales of data, such as in one of our bank customer's scenarios using more than nine hundred gigabytes of data.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"CDH has a wide variety of proprietary tools that we use, like Impala, and from that perspective, it's quite useful as opposed to something open-source, as we get a lot of value from Cloudera's proprietary tools."
"The main advantage is the storage is less expensive."
"For the clusters using CM, we are able to more tightly control and manage the configuration of all nodes in the clusters."
"Very good end-to-end security features."
"The product as a whole is good."
"Improved Business Intelligence reporting from daily to every two hours satisfying the business stakeholders who would favour transactional systems to draft reports because it had the latest data."
"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."
"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."
"Try it! You’ll be impressed."
"The features I've found to be most valuable are the speed of reading and writing (read/write performance levels are really high), the transactions model (semantics for data manipulation), and just the overall simplicity of using it."
"We have a support agreement with Oracle, ensuring full support for the product. It is crucial for our public-facing features. Oracle NoSQL is easy to manage and has fast data retrieval. Its compatibility with Oracle Database is seamless, making integration between NoSQL and relational databases smooth and effortless. Oracle NoSQL and NoSQL data replication in our environment works efficiently. Oracle fully supports it, and we can easily configure and manage authentication for the NoSQL database."
"Oracle NoSQL is pretty scalable."
"The product meets expectations when it comes to stability."
"NoSQL has high availability; I think it's perfect from a technical perspective, and it's quick to run and go."
"The tool is easy to learn."
"So far, we find stability to be very reasonable, it is dependable and we do not have any big issues."
 

Cons

"The governance aspect of the solution should be improved."
"The security of this solution could be improved."
"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."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop has a limited feature list and a lot of costs involved."
"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 performance can be improved. We have experienced some performance issues."
"The performance of some analytics engines provided by Cloudera is not that good."
"The stability is problematic. We did encounter quite a lot of issues with the cluster going down quite frequently."
"I would rate Oracle NoSQL six or 6.5 out of ten based on my experience."
"The installation is difficult."
"We've had some issues with stability. During our testing, we were able to drop an entire database by writing huge amounts of data."
"Oracle could improve how NoSQL works in containers. I don't think NoSQL needs any new features, but I want to see new features in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure."
"Handling big data in a user-friendly way is currently a bit of an issue. The dashboard for this needs some work."
"Personally, I’d like to see some improvements in the monitoring UI for it."
"You will get high performance when you organize your data correctly at the beginning. Otherwise, there are instability issues."
"The main areas that need improvement with NoSQL are in the area of big data and user-friendly presentation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better for the product."
"The price is very high. The solution is expensive."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive, with support costs involved."
"The solution is fairly expensive."
"Cloudera requires a license to use."
"I wouldn't recommend CDH to others because of its high cost."
"I believe we pay for a three-year license."
"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 product is expensive and Oracle could work to lower the licensing cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Construction Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise31
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
 

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 price for Cloudera is average, yet it is very good compared to other solutions. It can be deployed on-premises, unlike competitors' cloud-only solutions.
What needs improvement with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
If they could support modifying the data more easily than the current implementation, it would be beneficial.
What needs improvement with Oracle NoSQL?
Sometimes we face problems with the connection between our applications and the database. It may be due to network issues or performance issues on Oracle's side. Our DBA team requests validations f...
 

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