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Cloudera Reviews & Product Details

Pricing

Pricing provided by Cloudera.

AI Inference

$0.25
1 CCU (Hourly rate)
Verified User in Banking
EB
Verified User in Banking
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Outstanding Support Experience"
5/5
What do you like best about Cloudera?

Outstanding support and response from support team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera?

Interface to be more user friendly and more clear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Database administrator"
5/5
What do you like best about Cloudera?

Easy platform for building my system for end user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera?

Need improvement to increase work efficiency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
UB
Verified User in Banking
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Versatile All-in-One Platform, but the Interface and Load Times Need Work"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Cloudera?

one platform served anything essentials in data engineering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera?

interface less user friendly, long loading time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
ET
Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Efficient and Effective, with Room to Grow"
3/5
What do you like best about Cloudera?

Efficient to meet current market needs and effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera?

Nothing in particular. Simplified presentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
CC
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to Use, Reliable, and Great for Team Collaboration"
4/5
What do you like best about Cloudera?

Easy to use, collaboration among the team and reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera?

Not that I know out of my mind. A better UI could be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Excellent for Managing Open Source"
4/5
What do you like best about Cloudera?

Manages opensource to better explore data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera?

Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paritosh  C.
PC
Paritosh C.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Staffing and Recruiting
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Reliable Platform for Managing Large-Scale Data Pipelines"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Cloudera?

Cloudera Data Engineering provides a solid environment for building and managing data pipelines at scale.

I like the way it integrates with Apache Spark and Airflow, making batch processing and scheduling efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera?

Initial setup and configuration can be complex, especially in hybrid cloud environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shreyas C.
SC
Shreyas C.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Awsome product"
5/5
What do you like best about Cloudera?

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?

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.

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Yogesh S.
Project Lead
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Very powerful data platform"
5/5
What do you like best about Cloudera?

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?

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.

Asif  A.
AA
Asif A.
Cloud Administrator (Cloud, Linux, DevOps, Storage & Backup)
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Storage product by Cloudera"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Cloudera?

Usability and security is one of the core feature that I like the most with cloudera DB. Highly scalable and implementation is not a big deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudera?

expensive and not supporting intranet to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Pricing Options

Pricing provided by Cloudera.

AI Inference

$0.25
1 CCU (Hourly rate)

AI Workbench

$0.20
1 CCU (Hourly rate)

Data Engineering

$0.20
1 CCU (Hourly rate)
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