Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs QueryIO comparison

Cloudera and QueryIO are both solutions in the Hadoop category. Cloudera is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3, while QueryIO is ranked #15. Cloudera holds a 25.7% mindshare in H, compared to QueryIO’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Cloudera users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of QueryIO users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudera Distribution for H...

Ranking in Hadoop

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

NoSQL Databases (8th)

QueryIO

Ranking in Hadoop

15th

Average Rating

8.0

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Hadoop category, the mindshare of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is 25.7%, up from 24.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QueryIO is 0.5%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Rok Dolinsek

Manager, Bussines Development & Co Owner at Troia d.o.o.

Enables on-premise implementation with powerful data processing capabilities

This is the only solution that is possible to install on-premise. Cloudera provides a hybrid solution that combines compute on cloud or on-premises. It includes all machine learning algorithms in the Spark machine learning library. All functionalities needed for a big data platform and ETL are on the platform, eliminating the need for other tools. It is scalable, ready for vertical scaling, and very powerful, offering numerous functionalities and configurations for generative AI.

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Marco Reyes

Manager of Process & Systems / Solutions Architect / BI Developer at HENKEL FRANCE

Stable with good connectivity and good integration capabilities

Data cleansing is not intuitive and user-friendly. When things have errors, you have to hunt them down as opposed to the solution simply showing you intuitively where to find it. I would recommend that they look at that Tableau Prep tool and see how it is pieced together. That's a great data cleansing tool. If Microsoft has something like that, then we wouldn't even have to look at some of the other options. There needs to be some simplification of the user interface. Right now it's too complicated. There isn't a way to put controls on the solution, so anyone can use any part of it, and sometimes novices will go and try to create things, but not know enough about what is official and what is published. It would be ideal if we could segment off certain sections so that not everyone had access to the whole solution. I'd like to see something more of a mapping tool so that you could see how the reports are connected, similar to Tableau Prep and Naim. That would make for a pretty useful diagnostics check. People would be better able to understand the linkage between your datasets. It would be nice if the solution offered some templates. It would make it even more plug and play, and give people a good jumping-off point. After that, they could explore other bells and whistles as they get further into understanding the solution. The solution should work in some virtualization. It would be a good added feature. If this product had those things then I wouldn't need to use other products.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We also really like the Cloudera community. You can have any question and will have your answer within a few hours."

"The most valuable feature is Kubernetes."

"The product is completely secure."

"The solution is stable."

"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."

"This is the only solution that is possible to install on-premise."

"The most valuable feature is that I can use CDH for almost all use cases across all industries, including the financial sector, public sector, private retailers, and so on."

"The product as a whole is good."

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"Anyone who has even a little bit of knowledge of the solution can begin to create things. You don't have to be technical to use the solution."

Cons

"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."

"The performance of some analytics engines provided by Cloudera is not that good."

"This is a very expensive solution."

"It is quite complicated to configure and install. Integrating the platform into an information system is always a challenge, especially when starting with on-premise implementation."

"The one thing that we struggled with predominately was support. Because it was relatively new, support was always a big issue and I think it's still a bit of an ongoing concern with the team currently managing it."

"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."

"The areas of improvement depend on the scale of the project. For banking customers, security features and an essential budget for commercial licenses would be the top priority. Data regulation could be the most crucial for a project with extensive data or an extra use case."

"There are multiple bugs when we update."

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"There needs to be some simplification of the user interface."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive, with support costs involved."

"The solution is expensive."

"Cloudera requires a license to use."

"The price could be better for the product."

"The pricing must be improved."

"I haven't bought a license for this solution. I'm only using the Apache license version."

"The product’s price depends from project to project."

"I wouldn't recommend CDH to others because of its high cost."

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Financial Services Firm

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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?

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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.

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QueryIO is a Hadoop-based SQL and Big Data Analytics solution, used to store, structure, analyze and visualize vast amounts of structured and unstructured Big Data. It is especially well suited to enable users to process unstructured Big Data, give it a structure and support querying and analysis of this Big Data using standard SQL syntax. QueryIO enables you to leverage the vast and mature infrastructure built around SQL and relational databases and utilize it for your Big Data Analytics needs.

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