Cloudera Data Platform Primary Use Case
My main use case for Cloudera Data Platform is data analytics and AI.
For data analytics and AI in my day-to-day work, we have a multi-source system where the data keeps coming from different source systems, from RDBMS, in tabular format, or semi-structured, or streaming data from Kafka. We process and store data in the backend ADLS, then apply business rule logic to create a golden table which is published for business or end users who consume the data for analytics. Some AI engineers develop or run that code, Python code, or LLM against those data to gain insights.
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Mohammad_Ahmad
Cloud data platform Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
My main use case for Cloudera Data Platform is for data analytics and AI workload.
We have different data sources where the data is coming in tabular format or CSV, semi-structured or structured, unstructured, and some sort of Kafka streaming messages. We use to store it and then we process and transform, apply the business logic, and then make the data ready for the consumer to consume.
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Dhananjay Koyani
ML Engineer - Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Handling and processing big volumes of data is my main use case for Cloudera Data Platform.
We get the instrument data from various providers, and we process them, do reconciliation, and use Cloudera Data Platform to process it and ingest it in a structured manner which is then used by our downstream consumers.
One unique aspect about my main use case with Cloudera Data Platform involves multiple application teams building their workflows on the platform. I don't have all the insights into other aspects.
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We heavily use Cloudera Data Platform for data science activities. Various departments in the company utilize it as a sandbox for data discovery. We have multiple data pipelines running on a daily and hourly basis, along with some real-time data pipelines.
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Shan Hasan
Data Architect at ubl
The primary usage of Cloudera Data Platform is to offload ETL processes because it's cheaper compared to data warehouse solutions like Teradata or Oracle. Furthermore, basic reporting can be done, and some real-time processes can be managed.
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Sachin Shukre
Sr Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for multiple domains, including oil & gas, finance (Morgan Stanley), and healthcare. We process around 186 TB of data per day for analytics purposes.
Currently, we use it for healthcare domain.
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Ciro Porzio
Data Platform Specialist at Lutech
My main use case for Cloudera Data Platform is measuring HDFS and the SQL queries in Impala to troubleshoot some error in YARN applications based on Spark, and control the reporting data between Informatica and Cloudera for transport data between the DB Oracle, Mongo DB to CDP in Impala, between HDFS.
For measuring HDFS, I use Cloudera Data Platform, specifically Cloudera Manager, to analyze small files in HDFS to reduce our number for the duration of jobs that read this file and the partition date.
I mainly use Cloudera Data Platform as part of a large-scale data processing and analytics pipeline in a hybrid cloud environment, primarily on Azure, which involves managing the YARN cluster, monitoring workloads, troubleshooting performance issues, and integrating data ingestion and transformation processes from various enterprise systems. We leverage CDP for its scalability, security, and strong integration with Looker, Informatica, Hive, and Spark.
View full review »We primarily use the solution for data storage and processing.
View full review »We use Hortonworks Data Platform for data management, significant data ingestion, and analytics.
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TonyOladipo
Senior Cloud Storage Engineer at Comcast Business
There are a lot of use cases for the Hortonworks Data Platform. We use it alongside GPFS, so most of the information we use for operational analytics is primarily on the Hortonworks Data Platform.
View full review »We use Hortonworks as a storage platform and then we create machine learning models and do the execution using Cloudera Data Science Workbench. (Cloudera and Hortonworks merged in January of 2019.)
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Wallace Hugh
Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We use this solution for the hospitality industry.
View full review »We use this solution to look at and manage big data. It's mostly historical data that we offload from our data warehouse, as well as from other databases in other platforms.
We have two different installations. The first one is based on IBM POWER CPUs, and the other one is based on Intel CPUs. Our data center is on-premise. There is some thought on moving to a private could, or a private IBM cloud, but we have not proceeded with that as of yet.
View full review »Hortonworks actually provides a complete solution and just one user interface that can manage all the packages. It can monitor all the requirements, all the versions and additionally all the quays and all the hardware-dependent services. What I want is a useful user interface which is the reason why I currently prefer to use Hortonworks.
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Lubos Musil
Solution Architect at Teradata Corporation
We use it for data science activities.
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