Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop Primary Use Case
We have a solution on top of the Cloudera platform for an electrical distribution company to gather data from smart meters for energy consumption.
View full review »We use the solution for workflow distribution. It's an ETL for real-time and batch-mode processing. It's mainly used for all the stuff, including data warehousing.
View full review »Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is used for our data lake and big data solutions.
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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop
July 2025

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We use the product for computing. We mainly use Spark, Hive, HDFS, and Impala.
View full review »The tool is used by our company's different customers who have requirements for big data management. When our company's customers want to build a platform for big data management, they choose Cloudera as their tool and as a big data management platform even though there are different options in the market since it is best suited if they consider having an on-premises solution. If a customer wants a cloud-based solution for big data management, then there are other tools in the market that better suit their requirements. For an on-premises big data management platform, Cloudera is the best choice.
We share company data leaks based on cloud data on their clusters.
View full review »We use it for machine learning.
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Lotar Schin
Head of Big Data and Analytics Competency center at OTP Bank Hungary
We use this solution as a data lake, pre-processing the large amount of data we have for further consumption by relational databases or advanced analytics. We use HDFS and Spark for that purpose and we are using Cloudera Machine Learning, a Jupyter Notebook-like environment with model monitoring opportunities, model catalog, and things like that. We are customers of Cloudera and I'm head of big data and the analytics competency center.
View full review »There are multiple use cases of Cloudera. It is a big data platform where we collect all the data and connect other sources to get data from multiple sources. Cloudera has a Data Lake.
View full review »It is helpful to gather and process data.
We used this solution as a data platform.
View full review »In my previous organization, we used Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop
for compiling website logs and application logs. We used it for log analytics.
We use Cloudera Distribution for file storage.
This solution is deployed on-premise.
View full review »I use the solution because my data is too big. It is almost 100 TB.
View full review »I primarily use CDH for data storage and regular dashboard reports.
View full review »We are using this solution for storing Big Data in one centralized location.
View full review »We make recommendations to clients for using different models of this solution to handle data intelligently.
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AkramKhan
Senior Data Architect Manager at Unifonic
This product is a framework for edge AI, it comes with multiple ecosystems as a project. I'm a senior data architect manager and we are consultants. We offer Cloudera to our customers but we don't have a partnership with them.
We are a distributor for Hadoop. Our customers choose whether they would like to use Cloudera or another product.
Cloudera Distribution is deployed on-premise as well as on bare metal servers in AWS.
View full review »We use this solution to process data.
When using an SQL Server you have to build indexes and you need to fine-tune the data.
We import the data that is in the SQL Source.
With a single script, we are able to run the jobs within minutes, which is an advantage.
We are using the Power BI model for the business convention. The performance in Power BI will be reduced if you incorporate more calculations. Those calculations are captured in the Hadoop layer and processed.
View full review »We use the solution for the data warehousing.
View full review »We are a solution provider and this is one of the systems that we implement for our clients.
Our clients for this product are in the financial industry and they use it to perform cost analysis tasks.
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Mohamed Gomaa
Data engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Our primary use case for this solution is to host a big amount of data in our platform, processing, analysis and all of this stuff on the platform.
View full review »We are dealing with data from the telecom industry. We were using an Oracle system but our volume has increased. We now have a lot of real-time data that needs to be transformed so that it can be made available and used.
View full review »We primarily use it only for big data support for analytical applications.
View full review »We primarily use the solution for external storage.
View full review »I've been working on the software installation from the beginning, and we have a client for global supply change, so we get information from Telefonica's sales and distributions. Getting all that information into this system allows us to process it, get KPIs, and create outgoing information for business intelligence tools.
In the cloud provider enterprise we get all the information from the gamers, like delays, response, and information from the games. It allows us to see if gamers are having trouble, high latency or any other kind of issue. They test that and get information about the issues in order to solve them.
View full review »I'm part of the IT team at my company, and our primary use case of this solution is building infrastructure for advanced analytics, where we copy data from our data warehouse that is now our relational database. We copy it to the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and then analyze it with Python and machine learning.
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Sumit Chaudhuri
Lead Consultant - Product Development at FIS (http://www.fisglobal.com/)
Our core product is an insurance product and the actuarial module is quite complex. SMEs so far collect data from various sources into Excel sheets and through macros do the analytics which is a very crude form of doing the analysis. So we thought to use big data for such analysis.
View full review »We are in the testing phase of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, and we will be in production soon.
View full review »We use the solution to maintain our legacy data warehouse for better performance and more extensive storage.
View full review »We mostly use the solution for big data analytics, data sharing, and reporting.
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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop
July 2025

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860,711 professionals have used our research since 2012.