Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs QueryIO comparison

Cloudera and QueryIO are both solutions in the Hadoop category. Cloudera is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6, while QueryIO is ranked #12. Cloudera holds a 13.8% mindshare in H, compared to QueryIO’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Cloudera users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of QueryIO users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudera Distribution for H...

Ranking in Hadoop

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

NoSQL Databases (8th)

QueryIO

Ranking in Hadoop

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Hadoop category, the mindshare of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is 13.8%, down from 26.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QueryIO is 2.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Hadoop Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop	13.8%
QueryIO	2.8%
Other	83.4%

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Sami Al-Yazidi

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.

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Marco Reyes

Manager of Process & Systems / Solutions Architect / BI Developer at HENKEL FRANCE

Stable with good connectivity and good integration capabilities

Data cleansing is not intuitive and user-friendly. When things have errors, you have to hunt them down as opposed to the solution simply showing you intuitively where to find it. I would recommend that they look at that Tableau Prep tool and see how it is pieced together. That's a great data cleansing tool. If Microsoft has something like that, then we wouldn't even have to look at some of the other options. There needs to be some simplification of the user interface. Right now it's too complicated. There isn't a way to put controls on the solution, so anyone can use any part of it, and sometimes novices will go and try to create things, but not know enough about what is official and what is published. It would be ideal if we could segment off certain sections so that not everyone had access to the whole solution. I'd like to see something more of a mapping tool so that you could see how the reports are connected, similar to Tableau Prep and Naim. That would make for a pretty useful diagnostics check. People would be better able to understand the linkage between your datasets. It would be nice if the solution offered some templates. It would make it even more plug and play, and give people a good jumping-off point. After that, they could explore other bells and whistles as they get further into understanding the solution. The solution should work in some virtualization. It would be a good added feature. If this product had those things then I wouldn't need to use other products.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

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

"The most valuable feature is Impala, the querying engine, which is very fast."

"We also really like the Cloudera community. You can have any question and will have your answer within a few hours."

"We're now able to store large volumes of data through Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop. We're able to push large volumes of data to the platform, and that used to be a challenge, especially when storing a terabyte of information. This is the area where Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop improved the organization."

"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."

"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."

"Cloudera is doing a great job in the field offering an enterprise ready data platform."

"Very good end-to-end security features."

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"It's so readily available and there's information online to educate yourself on the product."

"Anyone who has even a little bit of knowledge of the solution can begin to create things. You don't have to be technical to use the solution."

Cons

"We're currently trying to perform a failed installation and it's little bit difficult. It should restart the installation where it left off."

"Sometimes the heavy queries do not finish at all."

"The dashboard could be improved."

"Cloudera 5 is currently very unstable. Between two Cloudera 5 clusters, we have an incident at least twice a week due to what are now outstanding bugs."

"I subscribe to Cloudera to get an enterprise version but I have found that I can get some of its features from other vendors that would be at a lower cost than Cloudera."

"The solution is not fit for on-premise distributions."

"The procedure for operations could be simplified."

"The security of this solution could be improved."

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"Technical support is not that great. It's more like a study session than support."

"There needs to be some simplification of the user interface."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better for the product."

"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive, with support costs involved."

"Cloudera requires a license to use."

"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."

"I haven't bought a license for this solution. I'm only using the Apache license version."

"When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive."

"The pricing must be improved."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

24%

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Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	31

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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 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.

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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.

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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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QueryIO is a Hadoop-based SQL and Big Data Analytics solution, used to store, structure, analyze and visualize vast amounts of structured and unstructured Big Data. It is especially well suited to enable users to process unstructured Big Data, give it a structure and support querying and analysis of this Big Data using standard SQL syntax. QueryIO enables you to leverage the vast and mature infrastructure built around SQL and relational databases and utilize it for your Big Data Analytics needs.

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