We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, IBM Spectrum Computing, and SaltStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, Cloudera, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Hadoop."The most valuable feature is Kubernetes."
"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."
"The product as a whole is good."
"The solution is reliable and stable, it fits our requirements."
"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."
"It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products."
"Customer service and support were able to fix whatever the issue was."
"The data science aspect of the solution is valuable."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"Easy to operate and use."
"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"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."
"I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"Cloudera's support is extremely bad and cannot be relied on."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop has a limited feature list and a lot of costs involved."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"They should focus on upgrading their technical capabilities in the market."
"There are multiple bugs when we update."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is not always completely stable in some cases, which can be a concern for big data 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."
"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."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."
"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"Web UI."
"It is difficult to set up."
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