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Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH)

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What is Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH)?

CDH is Cloudera’s 100% open source platform distribution, including Apache Hadoop and built specifically to meet enterprise demands. CDH delivers everything needed for enterprise use right out of the box. By integrating Hadoop with more than a dozen other critical open source projects, Cloudera has created a functionally advanced system that helps you perform end-to-end Big Data workflows.

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Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH) Reviews

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Quick, robust, but a little pricey

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH) has been a useful tool working with our architects for data visualization. My team uses it primarily to the analytical tools it provides. Some other functions like the overarching database, warehousing, and ML have been easy to use and communicate. It is also nice having all these different insight in one place.

Pros

  • Solid and robust set of integrations
  • Easy to use and easy to deploy across the enterprise
  • Reliability - never lost any info
  • Simple and clean interface

Cons

  • The price is quite high competitively speaking
  • Hard to learn more robust functions and custom options without experience

Most Important Features

  • Ability to expand node environments on a large scale
  • Analytics and dashboards
  • Ability to automate and deploy ML and AI quickly

Return on Investment

  • Saves time by automating typically manual processes (data management, lifecyle AI etc)
  • Quick deployments and analytics allow for faster time-to-value

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Web Services