We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and IBM Spectrum Computing 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."CDH has a wide variety of proprietary tools that we use, like Impala. So from that perspective, it's quite useful as opposed to something open-source. We get a lot of value from Cloudera's proprietary tools."
"In terms of scalability, if you have enough hardware you can scale out. Scalability doesn't have any issues."
"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 search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The main advantage is the storage is less expensive."
"The file system is a valuable feature."
"We had a data warehouse before all the data. We can process a lot more data structures."
"With a cluster available, you can manage the security layer using the shared SDX - it provides flexibility."
"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."
"Easy to operate and use."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"The user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"There is a maximum of a one-gigabyte block size, which is an area of storage that can be improved upon."
"The solution is not fit for on-premise distributions."
"The security of this solution could be improved. There should also be a way to basically have a blockchain enabled storage with the HDFS."
"The procedure for operations could be simplified."
"Cloudera's support is extremely bad and cannot be relied on."
"The pricing needs to improve."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is not always completely stable in some cases, which can be a concern for big data solutions."
"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."
"Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud."
"We have not been able to use deduplication."
"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."
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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews while IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 7th in Hadoop with 6 reviews. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 8.0, while IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8. 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 IBM Spectrum Computing writes "Provides stable backup for our databases and has good technical support ". Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with Amazon EMR, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, MongoDB and Cassandra, whereas IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic. See our Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs. IBM Spectrum Computing report.
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