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Cloudera Data Platform pros and cons

Vendor: Cloudera
3.8 out of 5

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PROS

Ranger provides easy management of user permissions and access controls for security.
Cloudera Data Platform improves data management consistency and scalability across multiple environments, offering a unified control plane and centralized governance.
The platform's processing power with Spark and distributed data storage (HDFS) handles massive data volumes effectively.
Cloudera Data Platform supports multi-source systems with different data types, efficiently handling semi-structured, structured, and unstructured data.
Integration with other tools and the ability to easily scale after years without issues is a highlight of Cloudera Data Platform.

CONS

Security and workload management in Cloudera Data Platform need improvement.
There are complexities in cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS.
Cloudera Data Platform is expensive and complicated to upgrade for on-premise use.
Lack of innovation in machine learning support and full-fledged AI workload integration has been noted.
Frequent downtime and reliability issues occur due to its complex system configuration.
 

Cloudera Data Platform Pros review quotes

reviewer2763942 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 8, 2025
Cloudera Data Platform has positively impacted my organization by eliminating challenges we faced with CDH, which had not been supported for a cloud journey; in contrast, CDP allows for easy, mostly automated scalability where I can schedule job workflows, fine-tune system resource metrics, and add nodes with just a click.
MF
Oct 27, 2025
My main use case for Cloudera Data Platform is to support a multi-source system with different data types, handling semi-structured, structured, and unstructured data to support those kinds of workloads.
MA
Oct 16, 2025
Cloudera Data Platform has positively impacted our organization by reducing overall manual intervention, requiring fewer efforts and resources to build a big data cluster compared to traditional methods.
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T Sarwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 24, 2025
Cloudera Data Platform is a perfect tool to manage such vast amounts of big data, store it properly, query it, and move it from one end to another.
CP
Oct 15, 2025
Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) has helped our organization improve data management consistency and scalability across multiple environments, with the unified control plane and centralized governance reducing operational overhead and making it easier to manage workloads between on-premise and cloud environments.
SS
Dec 6, 2023
Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features.
Oguzhan Herkiloglu - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 10, 2019
The Hortonworks solution is so stable. It is working as a production system, without any error, without any downtime. If I have downtime, it is mostly caused by the hardware of the computers.
reviewer1426866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 6, 2020
The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform.
SenioITh677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 28, 2019
Now, using this solution, it is much cheaper to have all of the data available for searching, not in real-time, but whenever there is a pending request.
Prashant  Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
May 19, 2022
The product offers a fairly easy setup process.
 

Cloudera Data Platform Cons review quotes

reviewer2763942 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 8, 2025
I have not seen enough innovation in Cloudera Data Platform, particularly in support for machine learning.
MA
Oct 16, 2025
Cloudera Data Platform could improve by innovating more in terms of full-fledged support for AI workloads, enriching machine learning or LLM, as there haven't been updates in that aspect over the last one and a half years.
T Sarwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 24, 2025
We face downtime and reliability issues many times a week with Cloudera Data Platform because it is a very complex system and all configurations are managed by the end user.
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CP
Oct 15, 2025
That said, there’s still room for improvement in integration speed and UI responsiveness, especially when managing large clusters or hybrid deployments.
SS
Dec 6, 2023
Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS.
Oguzhan Herkiloglu - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 10, 2019
I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors.
reviewer1426866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 6, 2020
The version control of the software is also an issue.
SenioITh677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 28, 2019
I would like to see more support for containers such as Docker and OpenShift.
Prashant  Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
May 19, 2022
It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements.
Miodrag-Stanic - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 14, 2025
For on-premise use, I would not recommend Cloudera Data Platform as it is expensive and complicated to upgrade.