Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs Qubole Data Services comparison

Cloudera and Qubole are both solutions in the Hadoop category. Cloudera is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.4, while Qubole is ranked #9. Cloudera holds a 14.1% mindshare in H, compared to Qubole’s 3.8% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Cloudera users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Executive Summary

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudera Distribution for H...

Ranking in Hadoop

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

NoSQL Databases (8th)

Qubole Data Services

Ranking in Hadoop

9th

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Hadoop category, the mindshare of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is 14.1%, down from 27.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qubole Data Services is 3.8%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Hadoop Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop	14.1%
Qubole Data Services	3.8%
Other	82.1%

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Sami Al-Yazidi

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.

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Financial Services Firm

20%

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10%

Comms Service Provider

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Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	31

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?

The tool can be deployed using different container technologies, which makes it very scalable.

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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.

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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.

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Overview

Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is the world's most complete, tested, and popular distribution of Apache Hadoop and related projects. CDH is 100% Apache-licensed open source and is the only Hadoop solution to offer unified batch processing, interactive SQL, and interactive search, and role-based access controls. More enterprises have downloaded CDH than all other such distributions combined.

Cloudera

A self-managing and self-optimizing data platform. Constantly analyzes and learns about your big data platform’s usage through combination of heuristics and machine learning.

Provides actionable Alerts, Insights and Recommendations (AIR) to optimize reliability, performance and costs.

Automatically enacts policies through a number of Cloud Agents to eliminate the need for repetitive manual actions

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