Cloudera Hadoop distribution

Cloudera is well known and one of the oldest big data implementation players in the market. They have done first commercial releases of Hadoop in the past. Along with a Hadoop core distribution called CDH, Cloudera today provides many innovative tools such as proprietary Cloudera Manager to administer, monitor, and manage the Cloudera platform; Cloudera Director to easily deploy Cloudera clusters across the cloud; Cloudera Data Science Workbench to analyze large data and create statistical models out of it; and Cloudera Navigator to provide governance on the Cloudera platform. Besides ready-to-use products, it also provides services such as training and support. Cloudera follows separate versioning for its CDH; the latest CDH (5.14) uses Apache Hadoop 2.6.

Pros of Cloudera include the following:

• Cloudera comes with many tools that can help speed up the overall cluster creation process
• Cloudera-based Hadoop distribution is one of the most mature implementations of Hadoop so far
• The Cloudera User Interface and features such as the dashboard management and wizard-based deployment offer an excellent support system while implementing and monitoring Hadoop clusters
• Cloudera is focusing beyond Hadoop; it has brought in a new era of enterprise data hubs, along with many other tools that can handle much more complex business scenarios instead of just focusing on Hadoop distributions

Cons of Cloudera include the following:

• Cloudera distribution is not completely open source; there are proprietary components that require users to use commercial licenses. Cloudera offers a limited 60-day trial license.