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Cloudera Data Platform vs Microsoft Fabric 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 Data Platform
Ranking in Data Management Platforms (DMP)
3rd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (6th), AI Data Analysis (6th)
Microsoft Fabric
Ranking in Data Management Platforms (DMP)
7th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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.
NN
Data Engineer at Avanade
Data engineering workflows have become efficient and now automate multi-source warehouse loading
My main use case for Microsoft Fabric is data engineering A specific example of something my team has used Microsoft Fabric for is to collect information from many sources and put it in the data warehouse. The best feature Microsoft Fabric offers in my experience is the Dataflow. What I like most…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable feature because you can leverage any Hadoop component and take full advantage of its open source capabilities."
"It's the one and only complete open source big data platform Ambari-managed admin configuration for HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, etc."
"Ease of deployment and management of the Hadoop cluster are features we've found most valuable."
"Cloudera Data Platform has significantly improved our data management."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"Its ability to scale out seamlessly with little to no effort is very valuable to us."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"The best feature Microsoft Fabric offers in my experience is the Dataflow."
"The most valuable and useful feature I have found in Microsoft Fabric is data consistency, which is the top thing."
 

Cons

"Security- Although they support Knox and Ranger and Kerberos, they are still missing attribute-level encryption features."
"The only issue that I had was when I tried to reinstall the software on every node."
"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."
"It requires too much coding work; we're not good Java and Python developers."
"Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases."
"There have been some governance initiatives, but they are far from production ready."
"Initially, we went with Cloudera due to it being a popular choice in the market, etc, then realized it was bad choice."
"Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS."
"I think the Copilot usage in Microsoft Fabric can be improved."
"In my experience, Microsoft Fabric is not stable."
 

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

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Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
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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 needs improvement with Microsoft Fabric?
I think the Copilot usage in Microsoft Fabric can be improved. Across all Microsoft Fabric platforms such as Power BI or data engineering and Azure Data Factory, they have integrated this Copilot, ...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Fabric?
My usual use cases for Microsoft Fabric involve using it as a unified platform where we perform all data engineering tasks, all data analysis tasks, and all data ML models on the same platform beca...
What advice do you have for others considering Microsoft Fabric?
In assessing Microsoft Fabric's security features, I think we never have a chance to manage the security features directly, but that would be taken care of by the Microsoft admins or the platform a...
 

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