--- title: Apache Kudu Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Kudu Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Kudu works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 13 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # Apache Kudu Reviews & Product Details Apache Kudu is a free and open source column-oriented data store of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Kudu Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kudu/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Snowflake](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Snowflake") Snowflake 4.6/5(764) ](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) [ ![ClickHouse](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ClickHouse") ClickHouse 4.5/5(23) ](https://www.g2.com/products/clickhouse/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud BigQuery](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud BigQuery") Google Cloud BigQuery 4.5/5(1,224) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kudu/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 13 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Satheesh V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Satheesh V.") SV Satheesh V. Senior Solutions Architect Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/6/2020 "Tryst With Kudu in Production Deployment for a Telco" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Kudu? 1. Implementing Lambda Architecture (Both Batch & Real Time Streaming) with Kudu is quite straightforward. We additionally used Streamsets as the Ingestion Platform which has quite a good coupling with Kudu. 2. Makes Real Time Analytics Quite Starightforward. We used Kudu to run multiple Real Time Campaigns. 3. Tailor Made for Implementing Data Warehouses within a Big Data Environment. 4. Nice Upsert Functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Kudu? 1. Partition Limitation - Is limited to 2000 tablets/tablet server. 2. Faces Random Timeouts while approaching the tablet number limitation (max 2000/server). 3. Needs a Conformed Schema. No automatic handling of drifting schemas. 4. Needs a Primary Key for every table. 5. #3 & #4 are not really cons per se. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Kudu: Use it if the Datawarehouse is a strong use case within Big Data enviroments & try to be within the partition/tablet limitation and you should be good to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Kudu solving and how is that benefiting you? 1. Real Time Campaigns. 2. Real Time Lookups & Transaction Enrichment. 3. Data Warehouse Implementation is quite straight forward with Apache Kudu. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Araceli M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Araceli M.") AM Araceli M. Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/15/2020 "A good choice for efficient on-the-fly big data analytics + write random access" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Kudu? To my mind, what I found most helpful about Apache Kudu is the possibility to make quite complex data aggregations through SQL engines while also being able to efficiently perform updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Kudu? Probably two downsides of Apache Kudu to take into account are partitioning configuration, as it's quite hard to find the best partitioning set up for the particular use case performance, and also the fact that Kudu does not balance charge if a new node is added to the cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Kudu: Be ready for expend quite a few hours fine-tunning Apache Kudu partitioning and figuring out the best replication factor for your particular use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Kudu solving and how is that benefiting you? While working as a Financial Data Engineer at Santander CIB we leveraged Apache Kudu potential for efficient online data analytics for financial derivatives calculation in an on-premise cluster. We realised Kudu was suitable for this kind of computation engine that requires both high throughput and low latency because of its characteristics. It was also a good choice since it was a Cloudera cluster and has a really good integration capability with HDFS and Impala. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![RAVI K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "RAVI K.") RK RAVI K. Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/4/2020 "Apache Kudu : Review" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Kudu? Kudu-Impala Integration Features Raft Consensus Algorithm use to guarantee fault tolerance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Kudu? Limited Scalability : data you can have in Kudu per cluster node and per cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Kudu: For my use case Apache Kudu went well compared to others. I would suggest to start with a POC with yours used case and compare with other approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Kudu solving and how is that benefiting you? creation of huge datalake and setup access to dataset via Impala for downstream users. 1. Microstrategy 2. Data Science Team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") CT Verified User in Telecommunications Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/5/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Very effective for Telco data" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Kudu? The best benefit is that you can run analytics on top of Hadoop. You don't need to propose an alternative big data solution to customer to run analytics if they have already selected Hadoop for Big Data storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Kudu? Kudu has limitations in the type of data it can handle. You can't store complex structured data as you can do with Impala. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Kudu solving and how is that benefiting you? In my project, I had hundreds TB on Hadoop, inserted from TLC Network Nodes, monitoring systems,.. Kudu gave us the possibility to run analytics on top on our Hadoop Big and Fast Data infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/1/2020 "Easy SQL based tool which is easy to integrate and used for heavy workloads" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Kudu? Easy to use Updation and deletion which is not available in hive tables Fast insertion deletion all ACID operations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Kudu? Documentations are not available specially detailing heavy workloads, optimizations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Kudu: More good level documentations, You tube videos for implementing heavy workloads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Kudu solving and how is that benefiting you? Fast ACID transactions Easy to use SQL based Heavy workload efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") AM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/12/2020 "Best colum oriented framework" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Kudu? It's integration with Hadoop components and blazing speed.i specially like it's integration with impala Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Kudu? Sometime it fails execution of queries and gets stuck for indefinite amount of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Kudu solving and how is that benefiting you? We use kudu for analytics and data processing. Our reporting got into near real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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