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Cloudera Data Platform vs Cube comparison

 

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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 Data Platform
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
6th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (6th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (4th)
Cube
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
33rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the AI Data Analysis category, the mindshare of Cloudera Data Platform is 0.6%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cube is 0.3%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Data Analysis Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cloudera Data Platform0.6%
Cube0.3%
Other99.1%
AI Data Analysis
 

Featured Reviews

T Sarwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Data architect at SentientAI, Karachi
Has enabled efficient big data processing and querying but remains complex to manage and configure
Cloudera Data Platform should use fewer tools and remove the complexity between them. It should make it easier for the end user to change the configuration and understand it better. The UI tool for jobs in Cloudera Data Platform can be improved to provide a proper image of ETL jobs and detailed consolidated graphs to monitor Spark-based Hue jobs.
Peter Jefferson - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Success Manager at Unilever Inc.
Automated reporting has freed time for deeper analysis and improved budget and variance reviews
A specific example of how my team uses Cube in our day-to-day work is that above all, Cube has vastly enhanced our ability to get financial reporting done quickly and free up our time to really dig deep into various accounts. This has greatly improved the accuracy of our financial results beyond what you would even believe. The clean portal and organization help my team by making it easy to navigate and the data collected is very clean and managed in an understandable manner, hence making it very easy to make data-driven decisions. Regarding the features, customer service is great, customization of financial reports, ease of integration with other tools seamlessly, continuous system testing and upgrades, and easy creation of monthly and P&L variance analysis. Data import and export is smooth and efficient. Monthly reporting and analysis is easy to pull and update. The positive impact Cube has had on my organization includes additional time for analysis, less than budgeted spend, and more accurate financial results resulting in better decisions. The error rate has reduced from 40 to 50%. The reduction in errors has affected my team and the business overall by improving speed and efficiency for month-end close processes. Better consolidation of data for long-term trend analysis is evident, and easy P&L creation and variance analysis has been great.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"The best features Cloudera Data Platform offers are the processing power with Spark and the distributed data storage, HDFS, which helps us handle massive volumes of data."
"My main use case for Cloudera Data Platform is to support a multi-source system with different data types, handling semi-structured, structured, and unstructured data to support those kinds of workloads."
"It is a scalable platform."
"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."
"The Hortonworks solution is very stable, it works as a production system without any error and without any downtime and if I have downtime, it is mostly caused by the hardware of the computers."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"From a product standpoint, their Ambari UI is incredibly valuable for cluster monitoring."
"Cube completes my tasks very easily and takes less time, allowing me to deliver any project in a timely manner to our clients."
"Implementation was super smooth, and within two weeks we were up and running and the metrics were exposed in our app."
"NPS improved to approximately eight out of ten for our feature, and internally ticket handling times decreased, allowing reallocation of resources to higher-impact projects."
 

Cons

"Initially, we went with Cloudera due to it being a popular choice in the market, etc, then realized it was bad choice."
"Hadoop, does not provide improved performance, compared to traditional RDBMS, unless processing batches in the TB-PB range, or if the Hadoop platform has significantly more resources available."
"The only issue that I had was when I tried to reinstall the software on every node."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"A major drawback that I see with Cloudera Data Platform is that it tends to be one or two years behind the latest open-source implementation of the Apache toolkits such as Spark, Hive, and everything else, which relates to the guardrails of following compliance as the main driving factor, so that is something that could be done better on Cloudera Data Platform's side."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"Scalability of Cloudera Data Platform is very good and scalable in public cloud. However, it is not as scalable on on-premises private cloud, which adds considerable cost."
"Cube's interface can be challenging for non-technical users, needing clearer use-case examples to ease integration into workflows."
"Cube can be improved by enhancing data refresh over multiple tabs."
"I did not see any return on investment from Cube."
"There is no way to create a real template that is not exposed directly in the UI."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Currently, we are using the product in a sandbox environment, and there is no licensing. We might choose a licensing option once we get the results."
"It is priced well and it is affordable"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise26
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hortonworks Data Platform?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is very good.
What needs improvement with Hortonworks Data Platform?
Areas for improvement with Cloudera Data Platform could be the initial learning curve that can be a step for teams new to big data economy systems. Platform setup and configuration require careful ...
What is your primary use case for Hortonworks Data Platform?
Cloudera Data Platform on AWS was adopted as the core enterprise data platform, covering the full data lifecycle from ingestion to analytics and advanced use cases. Cloudera Data Platform was used ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cube?
The cost is around $1,500 per month. The exact number is not coming to my mind, but it is approximately $1,500 or $200 per month.
What needs improvement with Cube?
There is something that should be improved. We are providing metrics on email, and in the email industry we have both transactional emails and marketing emails. We have different models for these, ...
What is your primary use case for Cube?
We needed Cube in order to have a robust semantic layer on top of our ClickHouse database to avoid exposing our projection database directly in our app, and we needed to have sub-second latency met...
 

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