Manager, Bussines Development & Co Owner at Troia d.o.o.
Real User
Top 10
Feb 3, 2025
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.
Senior Business Development Manager at BBI Consultancy
Real User
Top 5
Mar 21, 2024
The tool is expensive. Overall, it's not a cheap software tool, and that is why only large enterprises who are mature enough and have an architecture that is complex enough opt for Cloudera, as its ROI would make sense to such businesses. For the SMB market or customers whose environments are not that complex and do not have multiple systems running, Cloudera might not be a good option.
The product comes with an annual subscription, which is expensive. They are bundling technologies together. You have to pay an extra cost if you need the technology out of the base license.
Senior Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
Dec 19, 2023
The solution's license price increased five times because of CDH. We set the licensing levels like data engineering, an enterprise data hub, data science, and data engineering, and then when they moved to CDP, none of this was possible anymore. It's way more expensive now. I rate the product's pricing a two out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
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Head of Big Data and Analytics Competency center at OTP Bank Hungary
Real User
Nov 4, 2022
Cloudera can become costly once you need to scale up. and more expensive than going with public cloud services. If you cross a certain threshold of nodes, you need to look for alternatives because it becomes too expensive. We are below that with around 30 to 40 cloud error compute units that we pay for.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Apr 29, 2022
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive. There are a lot of costs involved. For example: apart from the standard licensing fees, there are support costs involved, and support could be for three years, five years, etc., so support is a pretty large part of the contract.
For enterprise organizations that can bear the cost, it's a good solution. A smaller company wouldn't be able to afford the licensing fees. You can get a free trial for 60 days. They'll never have a community version because they're the only ones in the market offering this kind of framework.
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.
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.
The tool is expensive. Overall, it's not a cheap software tool, and that is why only large enterprises who are mature enough and have an architecture that is complex enough opt for Cloudera, as its ROI would make sense to such businesses. For the SMB market or customers whose environments are not that complex and do not have multiple systems running, Cloudera might not be a good option.
The product comes with an annual subscription, which is expensive. They are bundling technologies together. You have to pay an extra cost if you need the technology out of the base license.
The solution's license price increased five times because of CDH. We set the licensing levels like data engineering, an enterprise data hub, data science, and data engineering, and then when they moved to CDP, none of this was possible anymore. It's way more expensive now. I rate the product's pricing a two out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
The solution is fairly expensive.
It is an expensive product.
The product’s cost is higher compared to other tools. The pricing must be improved.
I believe we pay for a three-year license.
The solution is expensive. The license costs around 10k.
The price is very high. The solution is expensive.
Cloudera can become costly once you need to scale up. and more expensive than going with public cloud services. If you cross a certain threshold of nodes, you need to look for alternatives because it becomes too expensive. We are below that with around 30 to 40 cloud error compute units that we pay for.
I wouldn't recommend CDH to others because of its high cost.
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive. There are a lot of costs involved. For example: apart from the standard licensing fees, there are support costs involved, and support could be for three years, five years, etc., so support is a pretty large part of the contract.
For enterprise organizations that can bear the cost, it's a good solution. A smaller company wouldn't be able to afford the licensing fees. You can get a free trial for 60 days. They'll never have a community version because they're the only ones in the market offering this kind of framework.
I haven't bought a license for this solution. I'm only using the Apache license version.
We do not pay for licensing because our customers forward it, so there is no need to purchase the license for the project.
The price could be better for the product.
When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive.
The pricing is expensive.
The pricing is very competitive. It's not bad.