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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs Vertica comparison

 

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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...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Hadoop (2nd), NoSQL Databases (8th)
Vertica
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
86
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (5th), Cloud Data Warehouse (8th)
 

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We switched to Airflow because Cloudera is outdated.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.
T Venkatesh - PeerSpot reviewer
Processes query faster through multiple systems simultaneously, but it could support different data types
We use the solution for various tasks, including preparing data marts and generating offers. It helps extract data based on rules from the policy team and provides insights to enhance business operations. We also analyze transactions to target customers and improve business performance The…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is Impala, the querying engine, which is very fast."
"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."
"The tool can be deployed using different container technologies, which makes it very scalable."
"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."
"The file system is a valuable feature."
"It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products."
"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."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"The feature of the product that is most important is the speed. I needed a columnar database, and its speed is what it's built to do, and so that's what really does differentiate Vertica from its competitors."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"Vertica has a few features that I like. From an architecture standpoint, they have separated compute and storage. So you have low-cost object storage for primary storage and the ability to have several sub-clusters working off the same ObjectStore. So it provides workload isolation."
"Initiate on one node, and the RPM propagates automatically to all other nodes. ​"
"I appreciate the flexibility offered by Vertica's projections. It allows for modifying the primary projection without altering the tables, which helps to optimize queries without the need to modify the underlying data."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the unmatchable database performance."
 

Cons

"The solution is not fit for on-premise distributions."
"The price of this solution could be lowered."
"The areas of improvement depend on the scale of the project. For banking customers, security features and an essential budget for commercial licenses would be the top priority. Data regulation could be the most crucial for a project with extensive data or an extra use case."
"The user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop has a limited feature list and a lot of costs involved."
"The performance of some analytics engines provided by Cloudera is not that good."
"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."
"I would like to see an improvement in how the solution helps me to handle the whole cluster."
"We are looking for a cheaper deployment for the solution. Although we did a lot of benchmarks, like Redshift. We tried Redshift, it didn't work. It didn't work out for us as well."
"Whatever's out, the core is not always as great as the engine, especially their first version."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"Vertica can improve automation and documentation. Additionally, the solution can be simplified."
"The integration with AI has room for improvement."
"In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics."
"It's hard to make it slow for a small data volume. For large volumes, it's hard to make it work. It's also hard to make it faster, and to make it scale."
"Suboptimal projection design causes queries to not scale linearly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is not expensive."
"The price could be better for the product."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive, with support costs involved."
"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."
"The solution is expensive."
"When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive."
"It's an expensive product"
"It is fast to purchase through the AWS Marketplace."
"Work with a vendor, if possible, and take advantage of more aggressive discounts at mid-fiscal year (April) and fiscal year-end (October).​"
"Read the fine print carefully."
"The pricing for this solution is very reasonable compared to other vendors."
"I am aware that we have licensed it, but I have no knowledge of its cost."
"The pricing and licensing depend on the size of your environment and the zone where you want to implement."
"The price could be cheaper and it is best to negotiate the price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
5%
 

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 Vertica?
Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vertica?
The solution is relatively cost-effective. Pricing and licensing are reasonable compared to other solutions.
What needs improvement with Vertica?
The product could improve by adding support for a wider variety of data types and enhancing features to better compete with other databases.
 

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Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
 

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