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Cloudera Data Platform Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users value the seamless data management capabilities of Cloudera Data Platform, enhancing big data handling and analytics. (3 mentions)
Users value the robust data security features of Cloudera Data Platform, ensuring safe and reliable data handling. (2 mentions)
Users value the easy setup of Cloudera Data Platform, making it simple to implement robust data solutions. (2 mentions)
Users benefit from the efficiency improvements in data extraction and processing with Cloudera Data Platform, enhancing decision-making. (2 mentions)
Users value the robust functionality of Cloudera Data Platform, enabling seamless data extraction and reporting solutions. (2 mentions)
Users find Cloudera Data Platform to be expensive, especially when compared to available open source alternatives. (3 mentions)
Users find the complex setup of Cloudera Data Platform challenging, especially for beginners, impacting their overall experience. (2 mentions)
Users find the difficult learning curve of Cloudera Data Platform challenging, especially for beginners in setup and maintenance. (2 mentions)
Users find Cloudera Data Platform not user-friendly, as its complex interface can overwhelm beginners and hinder easy navigation. (2 mentions)
Users find the complexity of Cloudera Data Platform challenging, especially during setup and navigation for beginners. (1 mentions)

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Cloudera Data Platform Pros and Cons

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Shreyas C.
SC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Awsome product"
What do you like best about Cloudera Data Platform?

Cloudera has been an outstanding partner in wanting to understand our main use cases to ensure we are getting value. We have really grown as an organization thanks to their expertise and dedication. In the last three years, we've seen many business problems come up and so far we have been able to solve the majority of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera Data Platform?

Our implementation grew so quickly that we had scaling and performance issues. We were able to resolve our issues with Cloudera's expertise but we noted that the product documentation was not comprehensive enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YS
Project Lead
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Very powerful data platform"
What do you like best about Cloudera Data Platform?

We used the Cloudera Data Platform to create a robust solution addressing challenges in the extraction, ingestion, and utilization of CSV data, providing a seamless experience for end-users for one of our Projects. We used it to automate the data extraction process and to ingest the processed data into an external table on the Cloudera Data platform to be used for front-end reporting using Plotly Dash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera Data Platform?

We didn't particularly dislike anything about the tool. Overall it was a very effective and powerful tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KD
Management Assistant
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The Cloudera Data Platform lacks in terms of its expertise and support during our implementation."
What do you like best about Cloudera Data Platform?

They were slow to resolve any scaling and performance issues we faced. The product documentation needs to be more comprehensive. The pricing needs to be better especially considering the merger with Hortonworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera Data Platform?

Things are mentioned. It does provide flexibility in managing data across platforms there needs improvements in terms of integration. The security measures are not decent. The platform is free to download and use the lack of customer support is difficult for users who encounter issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SE
Asset Manager
Automotive
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Not Ensuring Security"
What do you like best about Cloudera Data Platform?

Clouderas is unable to solve the problems of scaling and performance. The product documentation need to be more comprehensive their support was not valuable. There isnt anything that I find favorable, about the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera Data Platform?

It is difficult to use and meets our expectations. Some aspects leave me unsatisfied. It does not solve data management problems its simplicity is primarily limited to work related tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit B.
AB
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Analytics via Cloudera Stream Processing"
What do you like best about Cloudera Data Platform?

One of the best CSPs to convert streams into data points which are useful for analytics.

We use it for all the analytics events. Very easy to maintain and use. Customer Support is really good. Helped a lot during integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera Data Platform?

Documentation can be better. Integration can be made a bit more easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neeraj V.
NV
Junior Software Developer - AI Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"One of the best platforms for data operations, business intelligence, and machine learning"
What do you like best about Cloudera Data Platform?

Excellent support for Machine Learning services. I can create and deploy my own models or use one of the AMPs in a robust environment. And I can easily scale up my applications using the Pyspark or Hadoop Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera Data Platform?

I couldn't find anything in particular to dislike, but the pricing could be better, but that's understandable after the merger with Horton Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Review CloudEra data"
What do you like best about Cloudera Data Platform?

Cloudera Data Platform is like a super-smart organizer for data, helping companies handle lots of information easily and securely. It works well with big data and lets businesses analyze and use their data smartly, making decisions based on facts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera Data Platform?

Some folks find Cloudera Data Platform a bit tricky to set up and costly to run, like a high-maintenance gadget. It might feel a bit complicated for beginners, and the buttons aren't as easy to figure out as some other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajan Kumar Y.
RY
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Seamless data ingestion and transformation for Big Data"
What do you like best about Cloudera Data Platform?

We have recently used Cloudera for one of our data pipeline to ingest and transform the data and finally store to the Data Lake. And the overall process was smooth and the inbuilt tools elevated the experience of data handling at various stages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera Data Platform?

There should be some inbuilt integration tool to ingest and transform the data with Azure ADF pipeline integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PRASANTH P.
PP
Senior Associate
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Cloudera Platform Review"
What do you like best about Cloudera Data Platform?

Cloudera is known for its comprehensive suite of tools for big data management and analytics. Many users appreciate its scalability, robustness, and the ease with which it integrates various big data technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera Data Platform?

However, some users have mentioned challenges with the complexity of setting up and maintaining the Cloudera Data Platform, as well as concerns about licensing costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LENIN K.
LK
Assistant Manager - Cyber-Transformation-Cloud
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Self service analytics in multi cloud environments"
What do you like best about Cloudera Data Platform?

Cloudera is the solution which is providing data analytics in any cloud and any data.

The upside of this approach is to provide support to multi cloud environment and ease of access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera Data Platform?

Cloudera should think about the Regulatory compliance where all the data's are collected and stored in Cloudera and bi-directional data encryption should be maintained and monitored. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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