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Cloudera Data Platform pros and cons

Vendor: Cloudera
3.8 out of 5

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PROS

Ambari Web UI is user-friendly, making it easy to manage permissions and access controls with Ranger, enhancing security.
The platform significantly improves data management and offers scalable solutions with distributed computing and secure containerization.
Cloudera Data Platform provides notable cost-saving benefits with robust capabilities, supporting structured and unstructured data efficiently for enterprises.
Cloudera Data Platform optimizes big data handling, supporting multi-source systems and offering features like PDF extraction and speech-to-text conversion.
This platform demonstrates high reliability and power, especially on AWS, supporting complex enterprise use cases with strong governance across environments.

CONS

Deleting services requires extensive cleanup.
Cloudera Data Platform has security and workload management challenges.
There is insufficient support for containers like Docker and OpenShift.
Cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS presents challenges.
Cloudera Data Platform lags behind the latest open-source implementations of Apache toolkits.
 

Cloudera Data Platform Pros review quotes

it_user335694 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Consultant (Advanced Infrastructure) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 10, 2015
There’s not only one, the all-stack of Hadoop is valuable, the distributed file system HDFS, Spark, Kafka, HBase, etc. Hortonworks has certainly got the most up-to-date version of each component of Hadoop.
it_user340983 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at Zirous, Inc.
Nov 15, 2015
Hortonworks has allowed my organization to increase the amount of data that we regularly store from sensor data and weblogs, which in turn gives us a greater scope of data to analyze.
it_user338472 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company
Apr 16, 2016
Hadoop/Cloudera is still much cheaper than Oracle's RDBM system, if you want to handle a huge amount of data and make complex analytics.
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it_user339855 - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 16, 2015
Its ability to scale out seamlessly with little to no effort is very valuable to us.
it_user343344 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Objects Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 19, 2015
Its flexibility is the most valuable feature because you can leverage any Hadoop component and take full advantage of its open source capabilities.
it_user344022 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data science engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 20, 2015
Open-source Big community
it_user346956 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security and Analytics Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 26, 2015
Ease of deployment and management of the Hadoop cluster are features we've found most valuable.
SR
Solution Architect at MIMOS Berhad
Feb 26, 2017
It's the one and only complete open source big data platform Ambari-managed admin configuration for HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, etc.
it_user347568 - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 28, 2015
With it, we have faster processing times for our apps.
it_user337905 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 29, 2015
From a product standpoint, their Ambari UI is incredibly valuable for cluster monitoring.
 

Cloudera Data Platform Cons review quotes

it_user335694 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Consultant (Advanced Infrastructure) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 10, 2015
The only issue that I had was when I tried to reinstall the software on every node.
it_user340983 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at Zirous, Inc.
Nov 15, 2015
Customer Service: It's fairly low customer service. Technical Support: It's fairly low technical support.
it_user338472 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company
Apr 16, 2016
The setup of Hadoop was easy thanks to Ambari, but installing the security components was complex.
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it_user339855 - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 16, 2015
There have been some governance initiatives, but they are far from production ready.
it_user343344 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Objects Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 19, 2015
It requires too much coding work; we're not good Java and Python developers.
it_user344022 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data science engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 20, 2015
Almost every part of the Hadoop ecosystem has its problems and bugs.
it_user346956 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security and Analytics Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 26, 2015
The ability to update data is an area where the product could improve.
SR
Solution Architect at MIMOS Berhad
Feb 26, 2017
Customer Service: 3/10 Technical Support: 3/10
it_user347568 - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 28, 2015
It needs to be quicker and to have the ability to automate deployment on multiple nodes.
it_user337905 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 29, 2015
As this is open source, there are certain features that need tuning, such as the Hue UI.