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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs Oracle NoSQL comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

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 Distribution for H...
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Hadoop (2nd)
Oracle NoSQL
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
16th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is 6.0%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle NoSQL is 3.9%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop6.0%
Oracle NoSQL3.9%
Other90.1%
NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

SA
Head of Advaced Analytics & Intelligence; AGM at Alinma Bank
Integration of multiple features supports data analytics and processing
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop provides numerous features and capabilities combined into one platform.The solution offers power processing and supports different file systems and query engines. It provides parallel processing for handling many requests. The platform includes role-based access control in Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop. It secures the data itself and provides users with different roles and privileges.
SS
Support on banking at Aithent
Handles large data volumes effectively but connection issues require attention
The Oracle NoSQL solution is used primarily for storing data for our web applications. We work alongside the DBA team for this purpose, given that specific departments manage aspects of its use. We choose it specifically to handle large scales of data, such as in one of our bank customer's scenarios using more than nine hundred gigabytes of data.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Cloudera, as a whole, is designed to provide organizations with solutions for big data."
"It has the best proxy, security, and support features compared to open-source products."
"The solution is stable."
"Improved Business Intelligence reporting from daily to every two hours satisfying the business stakeholders who would favour transactional systems to draft reports because it had the latest data."
"Provides a viable open-source solution for enterprise implementations and reliable, intelligent data analysis."
"After Hadoop implementation they are getting confidence that now analysis is more appropriate and fast."
"With a single script, we are able to run the jobs within minutes, which is an advantage."
"I am very comfortable with this product."
"The product meets expectations when it comes to stability."
"The tool is easy to learn."
"We have a support agreement with Oracle, ensuring full support for the product. It is crucial for our public-facing features. Oracle NoSQL is easy to manage and has fast data retrieval. Its compatibility with Oracle Database is seamless, making integration between NoSQL and relational databases smooth and effortless. Oracle NoSQL and NoSQL data replication in our environment works efficiently. Oracle fully supports it, and we can easily configure and manage authentication for the NoSQL database."
"With Oracle NoSQL, our clients have a highly scalable, simple to set up database that performs very well when data is organized correctly from the beginning."
"The features I've found to be most valuable are the speed of reading and writing (read/write performance levels are really high), the transactions model (semantics for data manipulation), and just the overall simplicity of using it."
"NoSQL has high availability; I think it's perfect from a technical perspective, and it's quick to run and go."
"So far, we find stability to be very reasonable, it is dependable and we do not have any big issues."
"Try it! You’ll be impressed."
 

Cons

"The only thing that needs improvement is the cost, it's a very expensive solution and one of the main reasons companies are not attracted to the product."
"There are multiple bugs when we update."
"It would be useful if Cloudera had more tools like SQL Engines that offer the traditional relational database. We have to do a lot of work preparing the data outside Cloudera before getting it into the platform."
"Cloudera is not as easy, as it requires more DevOps resources than other solutions."
"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."
"The licensing was by node."
"The tool doesn't support reporting, and relational databases are still the major source of reporting data. Apache Iceberg will be launched soon within the Cloudera cluster for analytical purposes. The Cloudera Machine Learning aspect could be tuned and enhanced to enable us to host some predictive analytics machine learning and AI use cases."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"I would rate Oracle NoSQL six or 6.5 out of ten based on my experience."
"You will get high performance when you organize your data correctly at the beginning. Otherwise, there are instability issues."
"Oracle could improve how NoSQL works in containers. I don't think NoSQL needs any new features, but I want to see new features in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. I would like to see some improvements in OCI's building options."
"Personally, I’d like to see some improvements in the monitoring UI for it."
"The installation is difficult."
"Focusing on making the administration easier compared to other solutions like MongoDB could be beneficial. Simplifying the administrative tasks could enhance the user experience."
"We've had some issues with stability. During our testing, we were able to drop an entire database by writing huge amounts of data."
"Handling big data in a user-friendly way is currently a bit of an issue. The dashboard for this needs some work."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive."
"The tool is expensive...For the SMB market or customers whose environments are not that complex and do not have multiple systems running, Cloudera might not be a good option."
"I believe we pay for a three-year license."
"It is an expensive product."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive, with support costs involved."
"The pricing must be improved."
"The solution is expensive."
"Cloudera requires a license to use."
"The product is expensive and Oracle could work to lower the licensing cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
9%
Performing Arts
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise32
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
The price for Cloudera is average, yet it is very good compared to other solutions. It can be deployed on-premises, unlike competitors' cloud-only solutions.
What needs improvement with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
If they could support modifying the data more easily than the current implementation, it would be beneficial.
What is your primary use case for Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
We use Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop for many use cases including analytics, storing huge data sets, and various data processing tasks.
What needs improvement with Oracle NoSQL?
Sometimes we face problems with the connection between our applications and the database. It may be due to network issues or performance issues on Oracle's side. Our DBA team requests validations f...
What is your primary use case for Oracle NoSQL?
We use Oracle NoSQL ( /products/oracle-nosql-reviews ) to store data for our web applications. It is being used for customer projects, and we handle one of our bank customers using more than nine h...
 

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