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Cloudera Data Platform vs Prophecy 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
5th
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) (3rd)
Prophecy
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
296th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Data Preparation Tools (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AI Data Analysis category, the mindshare of Cloudera Data Platform is 0.6%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Prophecy is 0.0%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Data Analysis Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cloudera Data Platform0.6%
Prophecy0.0%
Other99.4%
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.
MM
Data Measurement & Reporting Advisor at Evernorth/Cigna
Automated data collection has replaced manual emails and now connects business forms to back-end reports
Prophecy can be improved, as right now the form is very limited. We have to do a lot of manual entry with the form to get it set up. We have a lot of things that change year over year, so I have to go in there and manually play around with it, manually changing this and that. Having dynamic forms, having the forms connect to back-end data, and basically making the forms more streamlined would be my need from Prophecy. Everything else on the back end, the pipelines, and those types of things have been pretty easy to understand. I think once you get things set up, I've been very impressed with it. The only improvement at least for my side would be the form.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Now, using this solution, it is much cheaper to have all of the data available for searching, not in real-time, but whenever there is a pending request."
"From a product standpoint, their Ambari UI is incredibly valuable for cluster monitoring."
"Hortonworks is 100% Open Source."
"Ease of deployment and management of the Hadoop cluster are features we've found most valuable."
"It's the one and only complete open source big data platform Ambari-managed admin configuration for HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, etc."
"Cloudera Data Platform has positively impacted my organization by eliminating challenges we faced with CDH, which had not been supported for a cloud journey; in contrast, CDP allows for easy, mostly automated scalability where I can schedule job workflows, fine-tune system resource metrics, and add nodes with just a click."
"Its ability to scale out seamlessly with little to no effort is very valuable to us."
"Cloudera Data Platform has significantly improved our data management."
"Prophecy has positively impacted my organization by greatly speeding up development time and providing capabilities of using DBT alongside functionalities associated with that, making it a very good tool to avoid coding much and utilize AI with the graphical tools available without needing to code."
"The form feature of Prophecy is so valuable for our team because it saves us a lot of time."
"Prophecy has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to offer it as an ETL layer for our incentive management application, which has improved our story and demos to customers during the sales cycle."
 

Cons

"That said, there’s still room for improvement in integration speed and UI responsiveness, especially when managing large clusters or hybrid deployments."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"There have been some governance initiatives, but they are far from production ready."
"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."
"It requires too much coding work; we're not good Java and Python developers."
"We face downtime and reliability issues many times a week with Cloudera Data Platform because it is a very complex system and all configurations are managed by the end user."
"For on-premise use, I would not recommend Cloudera Data Platform as it is expensive and complicated to upgrade."
"The technical support is okay, but not excellent."
"Prophecy is pretty stable, but there are often some unexpected issues that arise, especially performance issues or problems with Airflow on deployments."
"Prophecy can be improved, as right now the form is very limited."
"Prophecy is generally stable, although it does have a few issues at times, such as the Fabric connection randomly dropping and the environment freezing occasionally."
 

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
13%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Outsourcing Company
56%
Healthcare Company
25%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Construction Company
4%
 

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 Prophecy?
My experience with Prophecy's pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the tool can be expensive, and the licensing adds more to that. We try to add the licensing and increase the number only whe...
What needs improvement with Prophecy?
There are a few things to improve in Prophecy, such as scheduling the models and jobs; with the introduction of Prophecy Automate, I think that will improve that. I also see that there are some mis...
What is your primary use case for Prophecy?
I have been using Prophecy for the last year and a half. My main use case for Prophecy is to perform data transformations in Snowflake. A quick specific example of a data transformation I use Proph...
 

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Sample Customers

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JP Morgan Chase, Marks & Spencer, Ralph Lauren, Pfizer, Acxiom
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