We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and Hortonworks Data Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Hadoop solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Provides a viable open-source solution for enterprise implementations and reliable, intelligent data analysis."
"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."
"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there are a lot of things that need to improve. I believe they are working on that."
"The data science aspect of the solution is valuable."
"I don't see any performance issues."
"We're now able to store large volumes of data through Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop. We're able to push large volumes of data to the platform, and that used to be a challenge, especially when storing a terabyte of information. This is the area where Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop improved the organization."
"The main advantage is the storage is less expensive."
"Very good end-to-end security features."
"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"The Hortonworks solution is so stable. It is working as a production system, without any error, without any downtime. If I have downtime, it is mostly caused by the hardware of the computers."
"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."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."
"It is a scalable platform."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it."
"The competitors provide better functionalities."
"The areas of improvement depend on the scale of the project. For banking customers, security features and an essential budget for commercial licenses would be the top priority. Data regulation could be the most crucial for a project with extensive data or an extra use case."
"Cloudera's support is extremely bad and cannot be relied on."
"The solution is not fit for on-premise distributions."
"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there is a lot of things that need to improve."
"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."
"The security of this solution could be improved. There should also be a way to basically have a blockchain enabled storage with the HDFS."
"There is a maximum of a one-gigabyte block size, which is an area of storage that can be improved upon."
"More information could be there to simplify the process of running the product."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"Security and workload management need improvement."
"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."
"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews while Hortonworks Data Platform is ranked 6th in Hadoop with 25 reviews. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 8.0, while Hortonworks Data Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop writes "Good end-to-end security features and we like that it's cloud independent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hortonworks Data Platform writes "Good for secure containerization, and governance capabilities ". Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with Amazon EMR, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, MongoDB and Cassandra, whereas Hortonworks Data Platform is most compared with Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, Cloudera DataFlow and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric. See our Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs. Hortonworks Data Platform report.
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