We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, Cloudera, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Hadoop."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 scalability of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is excellent."
"In terms of scalability, if you have enough hardware you can scale out. Scalability doesn't have any issues."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the enterprise data platform."
"The tool can be deployed using different container technologies, which makes it very scalable."
"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."
"It is helpful to gather and process data."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"It could be faster and more user-friendly."
"The pricing needs to improve."
"They should focus on upgrading their technical capabilities in the market."
"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 user infrastructure and user interface needs to be improved, as well as the performance. The GUI needs to be better."
"Without the big data environment, we cannot store all of this data live. We have billions of records and terabytes of storage to be used. It's not an option actually for us to have a big data environment."
"The price of this solution could be lowered."
"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"The repository should be improved."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 21st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 8.0, while Pentaho Business Analytics 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 Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with Amazon EMR, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark and MongoDB, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and TIBCO Jaspersoft.
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